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Authors, Journals and Scholarly Communication in Library and Information Science: The Missing Links in Nigeria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

L. O. Aina
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Research is an important component of any discipline. This is because through research the frontiers of knowledge are extended. It provides the stimulus for the growth of a profession. For a profession to develop, research must be vigorously pursued and the findings regularly disseminated. The case of the library and information science (LIS) profession is unique, given the on-going debate as to whether LIS is a profession or a discipline or both. In such a situation it is expected that the research process will be complex. What is clear, however, is that LIS is a multidisciplinary profession that draws from library science, information science, publishing, computer science, communication science, engineering, management, etc. There is no doubt that it is a multifarious profession that needs to be constantly researched.

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African Research and Documentation , Volume 91 , 2003 , pp. 59 - 67
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Copyright © International African Institute 2003

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Footnotes

Revised version of the keynote address presented at the Training Course on Research and Writing Skills for LIS Authors in Nigeria at Lady Bank Anthony Hall, University of Ibadan, 7 October 2002.

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