Surtan, Faith2025-09-242025-09-242016Asiedu E.S (1976). The Ghana Situation. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the Preparatory Workshop on African government Documents 7-11 June. Tangier (Morocco) Books and newspaper Act Chapter 111 (1960). Available online at www.kenyalaw.org Constitution of Kenya (2010). Available online at www.kenyalaw.org Kenya National Library Service Board Act (1965). Available online at www.kenyalaw.org Lisa A. E (2007) Government Document Librarianship; a Guide for the Neo-Depository Era. New Jersey, Information Technology Today Ministry of Planning and Development. (1974). Development plan 1974-1978. Kenya Government Printer National Council for Science and Technology Act (1977). Available online at www.kenyalaw.org Op.1/48A/11/10 (1989) Depositing of Reports and Other Generally Circulated Documents in the Kenya National Archives Public Archives and Documentation Service Act (1991). Available online at www.kenyalaw.org UNESCO. (1975). Technical report; Kenya Development of Integrated documentation and Archives Services Wanjau L.W. (1996). Success and Failures in Implementing Section 5A of the Public Archives and Documentation Service Act. Paper presented at the Biennial Seminar of Senior Staff of the KNADS19-13 August.https://repository.ifla.org/handle/20.500.14598/5762This paper seeks to explore ways in which the National Documentation and Information Retrieval Service (NDS) can be repositioned, in the digital era, in order to leverage its performance. The NDS was established to ensure proper documentation of government activities within one institution. The Department provides a common storage and point of access of all government archives, published and unpublished reports irrespective of formats. This Service has a very rich collection of colonial and post-colonial Kenya. However in the recent past there has been a drastic reduction in the inflow of government documents. The rate of compliance at the moment is at 3.5%, a very worrying trend. As the Documentation service grapples with the challenge of low compliance to the statutory deposit requirements, it is now faced with a more difficult problem; digital publishing. Most government reports are now born digital by the authoring ministry, department or agency, unlike in the recent past when the Government Printer (GP) was the sole publisher on behalf of MDAs. The Government Printer would supply the Director with two copies of every publication produced. Currently access and preservation of these self-published materials has been very difficult as at times their existence is not even known to the Service. This has resulted in a huge gap in the documentation, as fragmented efforts yield chaotic heritage and hampers the flow, retrieval, access, and use of public information.enAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Articlehttp://2016.ifla.org/open accessDigital publishinge-governancelegal depositsgovernment publicationsdepository