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Survey on the State of National Bibliographies in Africa Survey on the state of national bibliographies in Africa Unni Knutsen, Oslo University College August 2007 http://www.ifla.org/VII/s12/ Abstract This paper presents the results of a survey on national bibliographies in Africa. The survey is a result of an initiative by the IFLA Bibliography Section to gather and update information on the status of the national bibliographies in the regions where the WLICs are being held. 10 national bibliographic agencies (NBAs) have responded to the survey. The main findings are: • The agencies acquire materials through legal deposit • Legal deposit legislation still emphasizes print material • The agencies should revise legislation to include more types of materials, especially electronic documents • Most agencies consider their legal deposit system to be effective • In awaiting new legal deposit legislation agencies include material under bibliographic control that is not provided for under the current legislation. • The national bibliographic agencies are committed to producing national bibliographies • The national bibliography is becoming increasingly diversified in terms of including different types of material, but there is still a clear emphasis on text formats • None of the agencies record e-books or e-journals in their national bibliography • Most countries do not consider the distribution of the national bibliography to be effective • Timeliness and coverage remains a problem • The agencies use international standards in cataloguing, classification and use of numbering systems • No countries have CIP programmes • All agencies print their national bibliography • Only one agency publishes the national bibliography on the Internet at the moment, but several agencies plan to follow • Only one agency has MARC-based records 1 Contents Survey on the state of national bibliographies in Africa............................................................ 1 Background ................................................................................................................................ 2 Project assignment.................................................................................................................. 2 Working methods ....................................................................................................................... 3 The response rate.................................................................................................................... 4 Survey results ............................................................................................................................. 4 Legal deposit legislation......................................................................................................... 4 Types of materials under bibliographic control ..................................................................... 6 Plans for the future ................................................................................................................. 7 The national bibliography ...................................................................................................... 7 Materials covered by the national bibliography..................................................................... 8 Plans for the future ................................................................................................................. 9 Adoption of international standards ....................................................................................... 9 The format of the national bibliography .............................................................................. 11 The production and distribution of the national bibliography.............................................. 12 National records as an online resource................................................................................. 13 Do the NBAs comply with the ICNBS recommendations? ..................................................... 13 Conclusions .............................................................................................................................. 15 References:............................................................................................................................... 17 Appendix 1 Survey respondents in alphabetical order............................................................. 18 Appendix 2 IFLA survey on national bibliography ................................................................. 19 Background Project assignment The IFLA Bibliography Section’s Strategic Plan for 2006 -2007 has the following provision: Goal 1: Extend the provision of universal bibliographic control by advocating and promoting the production of national bibliographies. Actions: 1.4 Gather and update information on the status of the national bibliographies in Africa by undertaking a survey and presenting the results at the WLIC in Durban (2007). At the Section’s meeting during the WLIC in Seoul (2006) Unni Knutsen volunteered to do the job. The Bibliography Section has initiated several studies during recent years. Information gathering was an important tool in the preparation of the International Conference on National Bibliographic Services (ICNBS) in Copenhagen, 1998. The recommendations from the conference were published in 1999 and form the basis of national bibliographic work worldwide. In 2001 the undersigned conducted a worldwide survey Changes in the national 2 bibliographies, 1996-2001, based on information from 52 countries from all over the world. The survey An examination of national bibliographies and their adherence to ICNBS recommendations by Barbara Bell and Annema Hasund Langballe was carried out in 2000/2001. It deals with the formal presentation of document description included in the national bibliographies and on the formal presentation of the bibliography itself. It was decided that it would be feasible to follow up these works by conducting regional surveys in the areas where the WLICs are being held. The first general survey, Survey on the state of national bibliographies in Latin America, was compiled by Unni Knutsen with contributions from Francisca Movilla Lopez in connection with the WLIC in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2004. IFLA Bibliography Section’s Survey of European National Libraries: Composite Data was compiled by Beacher Wiggins and presented at the WLIC in Oslo, Norway, in 2005. This survey was prepared to assist the Section in gathering more comprehensive information on selection criteria used by national bibliographic agencies in preparing their countries' national bibliography. The Survey on the state of national bibliographies in Asia was published in connection with the 2006 WLIC in Seoul, Korea. The African survey is the last regional survey planned so far. Working methods The mission of this study was to get an overview of the current situation in Africa in terms of legal deposit and national bibliography. The main aims of the survey were: • To ask about the existence of legal deposit in each country • To determine the extent of bibliographic control by national agencies and whether there is coherence between bibliographic control and legal deposit • To identify forthcoming changes in the area of bibliographic control and legal deposit • To ask about the existence of national bibliography, its coverage and formats • To investigate whether all the material under bibliographic control is included in the national bibliographies • To determine the extent of use of international standards and principles • To determine whether national bibliographic records are available online It was decided to use the same questionnaire as was used for the survey of Latin America and Asia (Appendix 2). The questionnaire was distributed in English and French. I am very grateful to my colleague in the Bibliography Section, Christian Lupovici, who was responsible for the French translation. Unfortunately, the questionnaire was not translated to Arabic and other widespread languages in the region. According to Wikipedia1 Africa consists of 61 territories, some of which are European dependencies. The total number of countries is 46, 53 including island groups. The latter ones were not included in my survey. It proved hard to identify the relevant institutions in several countries. Amadou Békaye Sidibé (2007) states that Guinea Bissau, Centre African Republic, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Equatorial Guinea do not have national libraries. Others i.e. Senegal, Comoros, Niger, Sierra Leone, and Ghana have substitutes. The IFLA National Libraries of the World: Address List (http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/p2/national-libraries.htm) proved helpful 1 http://wikipedia.org/ 3 and so did several other compilations found on the Internet. In addition I searched the web pages of the national bibliographic agencies (NBAs) to verify or identify physical and/or e- mail addresses and contact persons. The questionnaire was sent by air mail and e-mail on January 3rd 2007 to 44 identified agencies with a deadline of March 1st 2007 to complete the forms. The response rate By July 2007 10 responses had been received. This gave a total of 22, 7%. 6 agencies had filled in the form in French, 4 in English. The poor return rate may be due to several causes. According to Amadou Békaye Sidibé (2007) 17 countries are not compiling a national bibliography. The remaining 36 often have severe problems of different natures which will be discussed later. The fact that the survey was in English and French only may have restrained some agencies from
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