Abstract:
The major holdings of the broadcast libraries of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) are
electronic information resources; therefore, providing safe places for general management of these
resources have aroused interest in the industry in Nigeria for sometimes. The need to study the
preservation and conservation of these information resources becomes very important so as to
alleviate and find suitable measures to eliminate the identified possible damaging effects of this
malign challenging situation in the broadcast libraries of the NTA. This study attempted to find out
the categories of electronic information resources and their level of preservation and conservation as
well as the challenges that were faced in the preservation and conservation of the resources
identified. The descriptive survey research was adopted for the study. Five broadcast libraries were
purposively selected for this study and questionnaire were used to obtain data from the heads of
each library. Multimedia files were majorly acquired in tapes of various categories. c . of policy,
human errors, lack of in-depth knowledge and funding were among the major prob ems ighlighted.
Meanwhile, the study recommended the following; procurement of newer resources like disk video
server, provision of standard and working policy and holistic study of general managements of
electronic information resources among others
