Legal Deposit Department (LDD)

 

The department comprises of four divisions namely:

• Legal deposit
• National bibliography of Nigeria
• Online union catalogue
• Receipt and documentation

Its core functions include:

• To collect legal deposit material (print and non-print), material from private/commercial, Federal and state government agencies

• The receipt and documentation of all serials, monographs, newspapers, private/commercial, Federal and State government publications

• Compilation and production of National Bibliography of Nigeria (NBN)

• Developing, maintaining and management of online national union catalogue (ONUC) Database

• Organizing sensitization workshops for publishers/authors and printers to ensure compliance

• Marketing and distributing the national Bibliography of Nigeria (NBN)

• Compilation of National Library of Nigeria subject authority files

• Maintenance of legal deposit catalogue obligation by publishers

• To ensure the compliance of legal deposit obligations by publishers