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Challenges Of Selection And Acquisition Of Grey Literature
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1.2 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE TWO SCHOOLS UNDER STUDY
1.2.1
BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, OWERRI
(FUTO) LIBRARY. According to the FUTO library guide and regulations, the
Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO) library was initially
located at lake Nwaebere campus as a temporary site while the permanent
library was under construction at Ihiagwa. The preparatory work for the
library began in June 1981 with J. C. Anafulu as the pioneer University
Librarian. A classroom block was selected and converted into a
make-shift library. It was filled with shelves for ten (10) thousand
volumes of library materials. Other members of the professional staff
joined in October to prepare for the opening on the 19th November 1981.
at the time of the opening, approximately 2,500 volumes were on the
shelves. However, the importance of journals to the science and
technology oriented University community was re-organised at an early
stage and a list of about 600 tittles were ordered for. In the month of
May, 1982, the reserved collections was introduced, the total volume of
books held by the library reached six thousands (600), and borrowing
privileges were then extended to students. After two years of operating
in classroom blocks, the University library was moved to a permanent
building in the first week of September, 1983. the building was modified
to meet the requirements of a growing university library. On the 17th
of May, 1983, the Library moved along with the university to its
permanent site. On arrival, the pilot plant house of the school of
science was immediately converted to a library. In no time it was
realised that the building was too small to accommodate the
ever-increasing stock, staff and library users. As such, the library
moved partly to the library phase IV in 1995, thereby making available
two library building fo use: Pilot plant and phase IV library building.
The Pilot Plant Library building. The pilot plant library was left
within serials section, technical section for catalogue and
classification, acquisition section, the information technology unit,
documentation and Archives section. The pilot plant library is regarded
as reference library s no borrowing is done there. The library phase IV
which was originally intended to be a reading room is centrally situated
at a convenient distance from the Hostels. The organogram of the
library materials is situated at the entrance to the Library. The
library has seating capacity of about 500. 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. 1.3
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