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Managing a Professional Library and Information Science Journal in Africa: Issues, Innovations and Imperatives University of Nigeria Virtual Library Serial No OMEKWU, Obiora Charles Author 1 Author 2 Author 3 Managing a Professional Library and Title Information Science Journal in Africa :Issues, Innovations and Imperatives Keywords Managing a Professional Library and Description Information Science Journal in Africa :Issues, Innovations and Imperatives Category Library Publisher Emerald Group Publishing Limited Publication Date 2007 Signature Library Review Managing a professional library and information science journal in Africa: issues, innovations and imperatives Charles 0. Omekwu Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of Lagos, Nigeria Library Review, Vol. 56 No. 2, 2007, 0 Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 0024-2535 This journal Is also available online at: Library Revlewaims to provide an international Journal information communication link between researchen. www.emeraldinsight.com/lr.htm educators and library professionals in Table of contents academic. public, company and other libraries. www.emeraldinslght.com/oo24-2535.htm It publishes papers which have been reviewed by the Editor and one or more reviewers, which Online journal content available worldwide may be accepted as is, revised or rejected. at www.emeraldinslght.com AP- -=% Emnsld Group Publishing Llmited 60162 Toller Lane. Bradford fJa.2 1 EDITOR BD8 9BY. United Kingdom Davld McMenemy Te1+44 (0) 1274 777700 Lecturer. Graduate School of Informatics, Fax +44 (0) 1274 785200 INVESTOR N PEOPLE Department of Computer and information Sciences, [email protected] University of Strathclyde, Livingstone Tower. 26 Richmond Street, Glasgow GI IXH. UK Regional offlces: Tel: 0141-548-3045; Fax: 0141 552 5330 For North Amerlca E-mail: [email protected] Emerald, 875 MassachusettsAvenue. 7th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02139. USA ANTAEUS COLUMN Tel Toil free +I 888 622 0075; Fax +I 617 354 6875 Nicholas joint Email [email protected] Reference and Information. Andersonian Library, For Japan University of Strathclyde. UK Emerald. 3-22-7 Oowada. Ichlkawa-shl. Chiba. ASSOCIATE EDITORS 272-0025, Japan Te1+8147 393 7322; Fax +a147 393 7323 Helen Bartlett E-mail [email protected] Copyright Manager. Heron -a division of Ingenta. 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No resoonsibilitv Emerald Reviews is accepted for lieacc~rdc'~ ifinformation contained in the text. lnformation Science B Technolow-, Abstracts illurtrat ons or aavertisements. The opinions expressed In the INSPEC a1: cler are not necessar~lfthoseoftne Editor or thepubl~rher. The informed Librarian Emerald is a trading name of Emerald Group Llbraw B information Science Abstracts LlbraG Literature and information Science Publishing Limited scopus Printed by Printhaus Group Ltd, Scirocco Close, zetoc Moulton Park, Northampton NN3 6HE @ The cmnt issue and full text archive of this journal is available at u\.~:emeraldinsight.~0ml0024-2535.htm Managing a professional library and information science journal- in Africa 134 Issues, innovations and imperatives Received 5 February 2006 Charles 0. Omekwu Reviewed March 2006 Nigejian Iustitute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of Lagos, Nigejia Accepted 8 March 2006 Abstract Purpose - The main objective of this paper is to highlight and discuss issues, innovations and imperatives related to the management of professional library and information science &IS) journals in Africa. Design/methodologylapproach- The strategy adopted was to preface the concerns about the quality of journals from Africa and then synt.heske managerial issues that must be resolved to enhance quality. The next approach was to draw up a tenstep plan of innovative ways to enhance the quality of (US) journals in Africa. Finally, the paper discusses eight critical imperatives related to effective management of African LIS journals. Findings - The major concerns are that the continent's LIS journals are substandard, suffer high mortality and hardly appear regularly. Issues to be addressed to stem this tide of affairs include increased subscription spread, revenue base and the development oi scholarly content. The paper argues that African LIS journals will continue to die young if innovative strategies are not injected to rejuvenate them. Practical implications - The developments in the ioreground indicate a better and brighter future ior African professional LIS journals. Airican LIS journal managers must work towards financial independence, introduce or continue the review process, design scholarly content and strive for international competitiveness. Originalitylvalue - Probably the most comprehensive articulation of the challenges and opportunities facing LIS journal publishing in Airica. Keywords Africa, Library and iniormation science, Library management, Publications Paper type General review Introduction It is both a challenge and an opportunity to manage a professional library and information science (LIS) journal in Africa. The challenge perspective arises from the complex network of relationships, which the manager has to contend with. Firstly, the manager is answerable to the executives of the professional association and by extension, to the Association. Secondly, he has to carry along the members of the editorial board/advisers. Thirdly, he has to manage his most critical constituency - the authors; because fhe quality of the authorship invariably translates to the standard of the articles in the journal. Fourthly, the Editor-in-chief has to manage the peer review and the journal production processes. These challenges notwithstanding, it is indeed a privilege to manage a professional journal in Africa. It is an opportunity to serve and contribute to the intellectual development of the association. One gets to know more people, learn from the Libnry Revi~w challenges of journal production in a developing country and innovate to enhance both Vd. % No 2, XK)7 I>P, 1x146; the intellectual content and total packaging of the journal. The goal of this paper is to 1; En:mid Gmo~pR1b'ishinfi Limited W2j-2535 highlight and discuss critical issues of managing a professional LIS journal in Africa. oo~io.i1o~~~azi30710730321 It is hope that an understanding of these issues will help managersteditors of LIS R journals to wade through the complex labyrinth of journal production. The paper Managing a further examines how LIS editors can innovate to improve the standard of a LIS professional journal funded by a library association. It considers the imperatives of sustainability of LIS journals in Africa. This discourse is situated in the context of lessons from the LIS journal author's management of the Lagos Journal of Library and Information Science (LAJLIS). The LAJLIS is the official journal of the Nigerian Library Association, Lagos State Chapter. It is appropriate to first examine concerns related to the quality of LIS 135 journals in Africa. Concerns about quality control and improvement The International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications and African Journal of Library, Archival and Information Studies recently organized a very vital workshop. The title was: "Improving the quality of Library and Information Science Journals in West Africa. A stakeholders conferencen. The title suggests the need for critical evaluation of the state of LIS journals
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