• Challenges Of Selection And Acquisition Of Grey Literature In Libraries

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    • Most librarians has been selecting and acquiring library materials, including the unpublished literatures without knowing the terms generally used for them.
      this research project therefore has been carried out to create awareness to some librarians and staff of the library on what we called “grey literature”. This term is not familiar with most librarians but this project will educated them on the term.
      The research work (project) is based on the polytechnics requirement of the award of Higher National Diploma (HND), it is therefore critically examined and carefully studied the above topic.
      This project covers all one needs to know about grey literature, its meaning, its characteristics, advantages and role, its types, its acquisition channels, its cataloguing procedure, and challenges encountered in its acquisition.
      Librarianship students will also find this work very useful because it will help to widen their knowledge horizon in using library terms.
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    • CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 5 ]There are various types of materials in the university library which are separated into six collections. These are the reference the loans, the reserve and the serial collections. They also include documentation / Achieves and information technology collections.A breakdown of the section to date is shown as follows:Books 60,000Bound periodicals 4,850Documents 3,200Maps 948Total of all formats 68,670(Excluding current periodicals)Current periodicals 41Library serials holdings 1,184CD-ROM co ... Continue reading---