The findings seemed to suggest that federal civil servants in Nigeria preferred full-length, onginal documents to summaries although there was a reported strong preference for reviews of such documents. These results would seem to contradict the findings reported for similar information users in other parts of the world. It was suggested that until more disaggregated data became available and more was known about the quality and vanety of information processors/disseminators available to Nigerian policy-makers, it would be dangerous to use the findings reported here as the basis for planning the nature and level of information services to Nigerian policy-makers.
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Nathan Caplan , Andrea Morrison and Russel J. Stambaugh.The use of social science knowledge in policy decisions at the national level: a report to respondents, Institute for Social Research. The University of Michigan (1975).
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A separate questionnaire had been designed and pre-tested to collect data from librarians and other information processors available to Nigerian policy-makers on the variety, level and quality of information services provided as well as on the perception of their functions vis à vis the functions of Nigerian civil servants. This aspect of the research had to be abandoned because less than a handful of librarians outside the National Library of Nigeria completed and returned their questionnaires after repeated appeals and replacements of reportedly "misplaced" copies of the questionnaire
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"Montitoring Developmental Research in Nigeria: Implications for Information Transfer" is the title of the paper cited here. It is being submitted for publication to Public Administration and Development (London), Journal of the Royal Institute of Public Administration.
