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Cataloguing Policies and Problems in Kenyan Libraries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

R.W. Thairu
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What is presented here is not based on field research as would ideally have been the case but is based on personal observations supplemented with what is in the literature.

Discussion will be related to the basic role of library and information services for national development in recognition of the fact that these services are central to national development, particularly in the non-industrialised countries otherwise generally referred to as developing countries. This was the central theme of the 1984 IFLA Conference in Nairobi The paper discusses two aspects of a practice in library and information services, a practice that enhances the effectiveness of the services in question. In the context of this paper, cataloguing is described as the process through which sources of information in a collection are described in order to facilitate their recall.

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African Research and Documentation , Volume 40 , 1986 , pp. 8 - 15
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Copyright © International African Institute 1986

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Footnotes

See also Cataloguing and Indexing Sub-Committee Report, Maktaba 2 (2) 1975. 151-153.

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[1] Njuguna. J.R. Directory of libraries in Kenya. Nairobi, Gazelle Books. 1977.

[2] Ibid.

[3] IFLA International Office for UBC. Names of persons: national usages for entry in catalogues. 3rd ed. London, 1977.

[4] Thairu, R. W. Acquistions in Kenya Libraries, Maktaba 4 (1) 1977, 4-30.Google Scholar

[5] Ochola, F.W. Kenya National Bibliography, International cataloguing 13 (3) 1984, 29-31.Google Scholar

[6] Report of the Committee on decentralization of library services. Nairobi, University of Nairobi Library Services, 1984.

[7] Tanui, Tirong K. arap. Cataloguing problems and multi-lingualism in Kenya, International cataloguing 13 (3) 1984, 35-36.Google Scholar

[8] Ibid.

[9] Nyabundi, M.R.S. Local cataloguing problems in public libraries in Kenya with special reference to the Kenya National Library Service, International cataloguing 13 (3) 1984, 33-34.Google Scholar