Overview

Since academic development is seriously dependent on the quality of the Library, Babs Fafunwa Library can boast of a building that is imposing and that, for years to come, will be most suitable and adequate for all forms of expansion that are bound to take place as the Institution grows in number of academic programmes, staff and students. Presently the Library can conveniently sit 1,000 users. The holdings of the Library have also increased from 3,000 at inception to over 30,000.

Mission of the Library

Babs Fafunwa Library serves and promotes the teaching, learning and research environment where information resources are made accessible for those who are engaged in the pursuit of knowledge and excellence in teaching, learning and research. The Library primarily supports its parent organization; a student-centered and research-based teacher training higher education institution through provision of Library and information services.

This is done by :

Selecting and acquiring relevant Library materials

organizing and providing access to information resources in print and electronic formats

Providing facilities and services to all Library users

Meeting instructional and research needs of the College’s community of Library users; and

Providing information literacy training to all Library users and encourage self-reliance in selection and use of information resources.

In order to meet its objectives, Babs Fafunwa Library organises its collections in one main library and two extensions attached to the main library.

Electronic Sources

Due to the growing dependence on online and electronic sources of information, the library has embarked on various efforts to promote trends that can bring rapid development to services and library resources in line with global academic library standards. The Library has also employed the benefits of open access initiatives to subscribe to the following open sources free of charge.These include:

Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) - The database provides access to over 948 public scientific Journals in agriculture and related fields. It is being led by the FAO and it is available on http://www.agora.com

Program for the Enhancement of Research in Information (PERII) PERII is an initiative made by researchers and Librarian in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It provides access to journals, databases and articles across a wide range of disciplines. PERII hosts full text journal sets and database from the following on- line sources:

Scitation Library Services –: www.librarians.scitation.org

Ingenta Connect- www.ingentaconnect.com

SPIE Digital Library - www.spiedigitallibrary.org

Royal Society Journals on-line -www.royalsocietypublishing.org

Physical Facilities

Size of the Library: The College Library operates in three separate but joined buildings. That is the Main Library and the two Library Extensions. The Main Library covers an area of 791.6m2, while the extension is 461.5m2 totaling 1,253.1m2. However, the Main library has further been expanded to provide additional seating capacity for about 400 readers.

Library Collection

	No. of Title	No. of Volumes
Book	11,996	37,174
Local Journals	507	1,343
Foreign Journals	151	436
E Resources and Databases	257

 

List of Professional Librarians as at February, 2016

S/N	NAME OF STAFF	STATUS	QUALIFICATION
1	Mr. R. A. Awoyemi	Ag. College Librarian	N.C.E. (Bus.Edu.), BLIS, M.Info.Sc.
2	Mrs. A. F. Afolabi	Principal Librarian	B.Sc., MLIS, PGDE
3	Dr. S. O. Ogunniyi	Principal Librarian	BLIS., MLIS, PGDE, Ph.D
4	Dr. J. A. Akerele	Principal Librarian	B.Sc., MLIS, PGDE, Ph.D
5	Mr. M. Jato	Principal Librarian	BLIS, MLIS, PGDE
6	Mrs. O. Jamogha	Librarian I	B.Sc., PGDE
7	Mr. E. F. Efosa	Librarian I	B.Sc., PGDE
8	Mr. Olubiyo Peter	Librarian I	BLIS, MLS
9	Mr. M. S. Sheji	Librarian I	BLIS, PGDE(Social Studies)
10	Mrs. S. O. Efosa-Isibori	Librarian Ii	BLIS
11	Mr. A. P. Udonsi	Librarian Ii	BLIS