Abstract
Purpose – The purpose of this article is to analyse the content of the Nigerian School Library Journal (NSLJ) from 1979‐2010.Design/methodology/approach – This study adopts a descriptive research approach by means of bibliometric analysis. The NSLJ was examined for subject coverage, geographic distribution of authors, country of origin of authors, publication output, collaboration among authors, international visibility, gender of authors, research type, and language of articles. The international visibility of the journal was investigated through the web‐based version of Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, Africa Journals OnLine (AJOL) and literature search.Findings – There have been nine issues since the first publication in 1979. The study discovered that NSLJ was not listed among the known LIS journals from Nigeria. The geographical distributions and nationality of the authors in NSLJ indicated that all the authors were Nigerians, and the level of collaboration among the authors was low (16.7 per cent) wh...
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