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Challenges Of Selection And Acquisition Of Grey Literature In Libraries
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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 60,000
Bound periodicals 4,850
Documents 3,200
Maps 948
Total of all formats 68,670
(Excluding current periodicals)
Current periodicals 41
Library serials holdings 1,184
CD-ROM collection 64
EBSCO database (CDROM) 50
1.2.2 BACKROUND INFORMATION ON IMO STATE UNIVERSITY (IMSU) LIBRARY
Imo
state university library, Owerri is as old as its institution which was
establish in 1981, following a law passed on the 13th of April 1981, by
the Imo State House of Assembly during the Mbakwe’s Administration. The
school was officially opened in two campuses, i.e. Aba and Etiti in
October 1982.
The school was later moved to Okigwe by the then
Military Administratrion, major General Ike Nwachukwu (Rtd) but was
relocated to Owerri from Okigwe in 1992 as contained in the law
establishing the institution.
Imo state university was opened in 1993
at Lake Nwaebere campus before the admissions of students, and Dr.
Omonogbo became the first acting Librarian of the university library.
Since then the stock has been increasing and it is of note that the
library stock has received gifts both in cash and in materials from
individuals and European union, British consulates and all activities of
the goal of its parent institution.
As stated in the Imo State University library fact sheets, the library system of the school consist of ten libraries;
They are as follows:
i. The Main library
ii. The Law Library
iii. The college of Medical library
iv. The library of the faculty of Business Administration
v. The department of the Architectural Library
vi. Social Science Library
vii. Humanities Library
viii. Department of Education Library
ix. Quantity Surveying Library
x. The Agricultural Library
The
activities of all these libraries are co-ordinated from the main
library which is the institutional library. This is to enable to provide
efficient and effective services to its clients in various faculties
and colleges of the institution.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]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 literatureâ€. 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 o ... Continue reading---
