269:: This section is situated on the ground floor, occupying a space of about 4564m2. It stocks newspapers, magazines, seminar proceedings and journals on various subjects for the information needs of the university community. Physical or hard copies of journals of 791 titles with numerous volumes, including local and foreign, organised on steel display racks and over 40,000 electronic journals across various disciplines accessible from the university online databases. The serials section subscribes to seven daily and two weekly newspapers, four local and five foreign magazines. It operates open access to its collections.
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277:: The reference section is located on the ground floor of the bravura library building. It offers reference information services across various disciplines for both students and faculty. The reference section deploys Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI), a platform for rendering online reference services using electronic mail. It also serves as an avenue for answering users’ inquiries individually or collectively.
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The history of the library dates to the opening of the university in 2002. The library occupied the ground floor of a wing of the
College of Business and Social Sciences until 2004 when the library building was completed. The building has three floors with a space of 11,300 square metres with a
252:: There is continuous digitization of Covenant University intellectual output such as documents, theses, conference proceedings, journal articles, newspapers, past question papers and other publications of useful archival value with a view to creating a robust Institutional Repository.
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the library holds monthly seminars to discuss research findings and current trends in
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261:: The Web Public Access Catalogue as a bibliographic control measure, is a catalogue which provides access to the rich collection of the library from 13 workstations within the readers’ services section situated at the first and the second floor of the library.
232:: this carries out binding and repair of worn-out books. The bindery section is likewise responsible for the collation, bindery and return of students’ projects. The reprographic unit provides printing and photocopying services to all users.
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Nkiko, C.; Iroaganachi, M (2015). "Community-focused selective dissemination of information services for empowering women through information provision and utilization: center for learning resources as a catalyst for social change".
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from 2002 to 2004. This software became inadequate when the collections of CLR exceeded 10,000 volumes, when the
Library migrated to 'Alice for Windows' software in 2004. In 2011 the library implemented Millennium ILS software from
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Ifijeh, G; Adebayo, Oyeronke; Ilogho, Julie; Asaolu, Aderonke; Michael-Onuoha, Happiness
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seating capacity of 3,500. It is an imposing glass structure, which portrays learning and research as the major activities in the
University. The library's operations were automated using in-house
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Library Community Development Committee is responsible for reaching out to the less privileged with information and learning resources; all academic librarians belong to the Committee.
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