Academic Library
Academic Library
Introduction:
A library is a collection of sources, resources, and services, and the structure in which it is housed: it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual. In the more traditional sense, a library is a collection of books. The term can mean the collection, the building that houses such a collection, or both. The term "library" has itself acquired a secondary meaning: "a collection of useful material for common use," and in this sense is used in fields such as computer science, mathematics and statistics, electronics and biology. Libraries can be divided into categories by several methods: by the entity (institution, municipality, or corporate body) that supports or perpetuates them. It may be an academic, special, school and public.
Academic Library
An academic library is a library which serves an institution of higher learning, such as a colleges and universities.
Objectives
Is to be an information resources provider supporting curricular offerings of the college or university. To deliver, disseminate quality, state-of-the-art sources of information, applicable library technologies and services the academic community.
2. To organize the library collections to ensure efficient identification, retrieval and delivery of information. 3. To provide a variety of services that support and enhance the instructional, research and extension capabilities of the institution. 4. To give professional and technical training and encouragement to and undertaking of research and
5. To contribute to the accumulation of the pool of human knowledge.