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Stock Acquisition In Alex Ekwueme Library
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According to Okeke (2001) library is an institution meant to collect,
organize, preserve and disseminate informational materials to library
patrons.
Chukwuma (2004) defined it as a place where professionally
selected and acquired books and non book materials are processed and
orderly arranged to make for ease of location, retrieval and use.
Hornby
(2010) defined library as a building in which collection of books, CDs,
newspaper etc are kept for people to read, study or borrow.
Academic library:
According
to the Librarians Glossary of terms (1979) academic libraries are those
libraries of universities, university colleges, and all other
institutions forming part of or associated with institutions of higher
education.
Ezamba N.C. (2004).says that an academic library can be
defined as a library attached to tertiary institutions. Academic
libraries are varied and distinctive as the institutions they serve.
Obodoeze,F.O.(2004)
Opines that academic libraries are those libraries that exists in
institutions of higher education such as universities, colleges of
education, colleges of technology and polytechnics.
Therefore, stock
acquisitions in academic libraries are the process or action taken by
libraries to build up the library’s collection. Various ways are
involved in acquiring library materials such as acquisition by purchase.
In purchasing process, there is need for selection before acquisition,
acquisition through gifts, exchanges and legal deposit.
Selection
involves careful choice of items to be acquired by the library.
Selection is based on the needs of user because the library in the
polytechnic is primarily set up to support the polytechnic curriculum.
Many things are considered during selection and acquisition and they
include the objectives of the parent body/institution that is every
institution has objectives and materials are acquired in the subject
field of the institution’s interest.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF ALEX EKWUEME LIBRARY, FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC OKO.
Alex
Ekwueme library, Federal Polytechnic, Oko is an academic library made
up of a network of three libraries located at Oko, Atani and Ufuma
campuses. What is today known as the Alex Ekwueme library, Federal
Polytechnic, Oko started in a one (1) room apartment with (400) volumes
of books mostly in the field of classic and literature. This was when
the Anambra state Government approved the institution as a college of
Arts and Science to offer a remedial courses for students at the G.C.E
ordinary and advanced level examinations. When the institution was
upgraded to college of Arts, Science and Technology on June 28, 1980
more books were acquired to provide information resources to facilitate
teaching, learning, research and community services.
The growth of
the library was sustained with the unassailable objectives of the
library, collection development in Alex Ekwueme library was expectedly
dictated by the institutions curricula.
The college was formulized as
Anambra State Polytechnic, Oko through Edict no. 12 of 1985. The
library was moved from the one room it occupied to its present location
and more books were acquired to beef up the collection.
The
professional librarian Mr. U.C.U Uchedili was appointed to organize the
library in line with established procedure in any academic library. This
was during the regime of Professor C. Ezeilo as the rector in 1981. In
1993, the quality of its education programmes, the availability of vital
infrastructure and personal initiatives of Professor Ben Nwabueze, the
minister of Education. The Polytechnic was taken over by the Federal
Government. At the same time, Atani campus of Polytechnic was
established as one of the visionary strides of Professor Ben Nwabueze.
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