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Problems Of Book Acquisition In Academic Libraries
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1.2 BACKGROUND HISTORY OF IMO STATE UNIVERSITY
The
Imo State University in Uturu was established in 1981 following the
bill passed by the late chief Mbakwe’s Administration on the 13th of
April 1981. The school was officially opened in Etiti in 1981 with a
second campus at Aba on temporary site. The school was later moved to
Okigwe by the military administration major general Ike Nwachukwu (rtd).
The
establishment of the University grew out of the need for an academic
institution of the highest status owned supported and managed by the
state in order to attend to the academic vision of Imo indigenes in
gaining admission into the university. The first phase of the permanent
building for the university was later completed at Okigwe, with an
ultra-modern university Okigwe in 1992 following the creation of new
Abia State from the old Imo State.
The present Imo State University
at Owerri is relocated from the old Imo State University Okigwe. The old
University was left to Abia State because of change of asset which
resented to Imo State having no university of its own.
The Imo State
University now occupies the former temporary site of Federal University
of Technology Owerri (FUTO) at Lake Nwaebere Campus, inheriting the
physical facilities vacated by the Federal University of Technology
Owerri as they move to their permanent site at Ihiagwa.
The
objective, philosophy and aspiration of the university includes to
encourage the advancement of learning in Imo State and Nigeria in
particular to give all person without discriminations of race, sex the
opportunity to acquire higher education for the purpose of carrying the
philosophy and objective. The university was then known as Evans Ewerem
University and its vice chancellor was professor O.E. Nwebe from
2009-May 2011. The university is now known as the Imo State University.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study was based on the Problems of Books Acquisition in Academic Library. A case study of Imo State University Owerri (IMSU). The study was also made to find out what roles money play in the acquisition of book in the academic libraries. It also determined the level to which students and lecturers are consulted during selection of books to be acquired in their library through the findings it is observed that academic libraries acquires books through purchases gifts, exchange and inter-libra ... Continue reading---
