LIS 115 Book Production Processes

ND1 levelComputing & ICT13 topics

LIS 115 covers 13 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

Meaning of the book
Parts of the book
Early forms of the book
Antecedents of the book
Book production process overview
Typesetting
Pasting and artwork
Filming and plate-making
Impression and print finishing
Illustrations in book production
Material inputs in book production
Book trade and book chain
Challenges of book trade in Nigeria

A sample from this course

One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Meaning of the book

The ‘meaning of the book’ defines what constitutes a book in the context of publishing: a bound collection of pages that convey information, narrative, or data, and is distinguished from other printed materials by its structure, purpose, and permanence. Mastering this concept is essential for examiners to judge whether a document qualifies as a book and to understand the subsequent stages of book production.

What you get for LIS 115

Every topic above, split into sessions and dated against your exam.
Practice questions per session, with answers that explain themselves.
Offline reading — the whole course is a few hundred KB on your phone.
An AI tutor that answers questions using this course's own material.

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