Agricultural information source through Newspaper collection in libraries has become inevitable due to the need to strengthen the information disseminating capacity to reach researchers on agricultural information knowledge. Newspaper readers mostly go for interest areas like sports, governance, advertisement, stock market quotations etc. While many believe that information on agriculture is preferably sourced from research projects, of tertiary institution’s faculty/department of agriculture as well as publications from specialized agricultural institutions, and agriculture ministries in federal and state government. Newspaper is quick source for consultation but unfortunately not remembered. The oversight is due to the popular belief that news of yesterday is stale so newspaper is seen relevant in daily news. However, libraries acquire newspapers for keeping as research materials they don’t discard as most individuals do. Using cassava as example of agriculture publications in newspaper, the study has tried to bring to the knowledge of the populace that newspaper is not just for daily quick news but veritable research source.
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Onyenachi, J. C. and Ukawuba, V. C. (2020). Newspaper Collection Veritable Research Source on Agricultural Products: Cassava as a Case in Michael Okpara University Library Abia State Nigeria. Open Access Library Journal, 7, e5859. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/oalib.1105859.
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