1. Ensure a high degree of relevance of its collection to the needs of the University community;
2. Ensure that maximum use is made of the resources and facilities it provides;
3. Give qualitative reference and information service to its clients;
4. Join its staff with their teaching colleagues in making the use of its resources and integral part of the educational process.

1. a general section where books of a general nature e.g. general encyclopedias and dictionaries are shelved;
2. a theses collection;
3. a microform collection;
4. a documents and government publications section;
5. serials collection and
6. a conference proceedings collection.

For the location of the various sections and facilities, in the libraries, see (appendix I).

Consistent with its aims to become a "teaching library," the University Library offers both formal and informal courses to the students on library use. These courses which have the sole objective of making the students better exploiters of the library resources are at present two in number. The Introductory Course, G.S. 001 forms part of the compulsory Use of English Course offered to first year students.

The other course is designed for the benefit of senior students. It has been taught to senior undergraduates in most departments. A third course is proposed for postgraduate students.

For the present time, postgraduate students are assisted only informally when they notify the library staff of their bibliographical problems. All other students are urged to take advantage of this facility by always directing their libraries related queries to the relevant Subject Librarian.

To assist students in their use of the library, Pathfinders, guides for research students are available at a fee. These include studies. It is expected that more will be compiled for individual subjects.

The possibility of introducing seminar-type programmes for the benefit of interested members of staff is under study.

A copy of the regulations governing membership and use of the library is attached as appendix II.

All lending and returning of books and related materials are done at the Circulation Desk during the following hours:

Monday – Friday 9.30 a.m. - 9.30 p.m.

Saturday 8.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m.

5.00 p.m. - 9.30 p.m.

Sunday 5.00 p.m. - 9.30 p.m.

Long Vacation:

Monday – Friday 8.30 a.m. - 5.30 p.m.

Saturday 8.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m.

Medical Library:

Monday – Friday 8.30 a.m. - 7.30 p.m.

1. Take the book to the Circulation Desk
2. Open the inside back page
3. Hand your borrower’s ticket (one ticket per book) and show your ID card to the assistant
4. The book is stamped on the Date Due slip and the two book cards, both of which are stamped, extracted by them
5. The transaction is over, you can now go with the book.

1. Take the book to the Circulation Desk
2. Open the inside back page
3. The Assistant locates the book cards and your borrower’s ticket from the loans file
4. The book cards are re-inserted in the book, which is collected by the library assistant and your borrower’s ticket is returned to you.
5. The transaction is over you can now go.

Books to be renewed must be brought to the Circulation Desk. They will be renewed if no other reader wants them.

Notices are normally sent to borrowers, as reminders in respect of books not returned on the Due Dates. The library is, however, not obliged to do this. Overdue books carry fines which, if amount to more than N50.00 incurred loss of borrowing privileges to their borrowers. (See library regulations, para. 14(c)).

Books, which are on loan to other readers, may be reserved in advance by filling out reservation forms at the Circulation Desk. The prospective borrower will be notified as soon as the book is returned to the library. Books are normally held for two days.

In special circumstances, books not in the University Library can be obtained from other libraries (within or outside the country) on inter-library loan. Photocopies of articles in journals not in the library may be ordered upon request and with advance payment.

A courier service operates between the library and Kashim Ibrahim Library of Admadu Bello University, Zaria. Inquiries about these services should be made at the Circulation Desk.

A collection of books and journal articles in great demand is held on the reserved shelves behind the Circulation Desk. Readers wishing to consult items in this collection (on two hourly basis normally) could borrow such items at the Circulation Desk by presentation of their Reserved Book borrowing ticket and ID card. Reserved materials may not be taken out of the library except they are explicitly loaned for over-night use (see time for loan under BORROWING A BOOK: WHERE AND WHEN above). Books so loaned must be returned to the library before 10 a.m. on Monday to Saturday and before 6.00 p.m. on Sunday. A fine of N1.00 per hour (or part thereof) per book is charged for Reserved Books not returned at the due time, a list of all materials held on reserve and maintained on cards can be consulted at the Reserved Section.

Reference books are books not normally read through from cover to cover but consulted as the need arises. All such books are shelved in the relevant subject areas at the beginning of the sequence. To differentiate them from borrow-able books, the sign (Ref) is marked on their spines. There is also another group of non-borrow-able books comprising mainly rare and art-books which are shelved along with lending books. They carry the sign (2) on their spines.

Readers are encouraged to refer their inquiries to the relevant Subject Librarian.

Materials in the library are arranged according to the Library of Congress Classification Scheme, (with few modifications). For a synopsis of this Classification Scheme, see appendix III.

The catalogue, located not far from the Circulation Desk and maintained on cards, enables an individual to establish if the library has a particular item (other than a serial) whose author or title is known, or books on a particular subject, and the location of such books. (The call-mark on the spine of the book, which determines its arrangement on the shelf, also appears on the corresponding catalogue card). The public catalogue, is divided into two parts namely:

1. Author/Title Catalogue: an alphabetical listing of all the books and related materials (excepting serials) in the library according to their authors and/or titles.
2. Subject Catalogue: alphabetical listing of all the subjects covered by the books and related materials (excepting serials) in the library. Under each subject heading, books, etc. on that subject are listed.

*There exists a separate list of serials in the University Library.

The author of a publication may be a person or a corporate body. If the former, the information for a work by him should be looked up under his SURNAME e.g. ACHEBE, for Chinua Achebe.

In the case of corporate bodies, eg. Institutions’, societies, governments etc. the entry will be made under the first word of the name other than an article (i.e. A, An, The, and their foreign equivalents); in some cases the entry will be made under the name of the place where the institution, etc. is located. In the examples below the capitalized words represent the entry words:

AMADI, Elechi

IBADAN, University, Institute dof Education

JOS, University

NIGERIA, Union of Teachers

The ORGANIZATION OF African Unity

SOYINKA, Wole

The reader is advised to always look up all possible words under which an entry may be for an author, especially if that author is a corporate body, before concluding that the library does not stock the publication of interest to him by the given author.

In regard to titles, the entry is under the first word of the title, except; that first word is an article. The title "The World of Artists" will therefore file under "W" for "World" and not "T" for "The." Entries are, however, made for most distinctive titles, but not for those that are meaningless by themselves e.g. "Collected Works," "Memoirs," "Report," etc. Note that both the author and the title entries are inter-filled in one alphabetical sequence in the Author/Title part of the Public Catalogue.

As stated above, the subject part of the catalogue consists of an alphabetical listing of the subjects covered by the books in the library.

The specific headings are determined with the aid of the Library of Congress List of Subject Headings, a set of which is located on top of the catalogue cabinets.

Books etc. on a given subject are found listed under the appropriate subject heading. These books, etc. are arranged alphabetically by author or by the title where there is no author. It is advisable always to look under alternative subject headings (cf. BIOCHEMISTRY and BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY or UNITED KINGDOM and GREAT BRITAIN) before you conclude that the library has no books on the subject of your inquiry. However, if you happen to have chosen a term not used in the subject catalogue there will be in many cases, a reference directing you to the correct subject heading.

The rest of the information that the catalogue supplies will be evident from the catalogue card illustrated in appendix IV.

Entries in the catalogue are arranged in a strict alphabetical sequence according to a set of rules. This library uses the American Library Association Rules for filing catalogue cards for this purpose. Of the two basic filing systems "Word by Word" and "Letter by Letter," the former is in use here. The following examples illustrate the difference in the two systems:

Words and Phrases Word by Word Letter by Letter

For filling

Port Harcourt Port Harcourt Portals

Portrait Port of Calabar Port Harcourt

Port of Calabar Port Said Port of Calabar

Portugal Portals Portrait

Portals Portrait Port Said

Port Said Portugal Portugal

Port Said Portugal Portugal

Please note that where the entry words for an author (personal, institutional or place name) and titles are identical, the filling sequence would be in the following order:

BOOKS

To find a book shelved according to the Library of Congress Classification system, first check the author/title catalogue entry and find the call-mark (see above).

If there is no location mark above the call-mark the item is a borrow-able one shelved in lending section on book-stacks labeled according to the letters at the beginning of the call-mark.

To find the exact place on the shelf for a particular book consider the sections of the call-mark in the following order:

1. Check the first group of letters in alphabetical order e.g. A AC AE B BF C D DB DS….
2. Check the first group of numbers in numerical order within a group of call-marks beginning with the same letter e.g. B49 B52.5 B165 B2421 BC108 BD41.
3. Check the group of letters alphabetically within call-marks that have similar first groups of letters and numbers but check in decimal order:

BD241 BD241 BD241 BD241 BD241

.A82 .A9 .C6 .D38 .D383

The library has begun to assemble the nucleus of this special collection that is presently housed in the Documents Section.

Serials consist of periodicals, magazines, newspapers and similar publications that are published periodically. The library subscribes to over 1000 current titles; about 20,500 volumes of backsets of some of these are available. Current serials are displayed on the Serials stands near the public catalogue. In Bauchi Road Library the serial holdings are listed alphabetically in a list kept near the Serials Section in the extension. In the Township Campus Library a list of the Serial holdings is maintained at the public catalogue. Serials are arranged on the shelves according to their call-marks.

The library subscribes to several local and few foreign newspapers. Back issues of some local newspapers are retained.

The library’s collection is still modest and is housed in the Documents Section. Under a co-operative acquisition programme involving all Nigerian University Libraries, this library is responsible for the acquisition of the government publications of the following African countries: Ethiopia, Central African Republic, Namibia, Saharawi Republic and Somalia. Readers requiring access to this collection should apply to the Documents Librarian.

The library has a small collection of microform materials mainly microfiches and few slides. The "Readers" and "Printers" for using these media are housed in Documents Section.

Request for the use of these materials should be directed to the Documents Librarian.

Theses of the University of Jos and some others have so far been acquired by the library and these are located in the Documents Section.

The library owns photocopying machines which readers can use for copying articles in books and periodicals (subject to the copyright law) upon payment of N1.00 per page. Request for the use of this facility should be directed to the Circulation Desk.

The Bindery exists primarily to attend to the library’s bindery needs. Non-official jobs can be undertaken at the convenience of the library. Request for this facility should be made at the Circulation Desk.

Current Bindery charges is available at the Bindery.

The library produces the following publications:

1. JULIA: (Jos University Library Information and Accessories.) A bimonthly publication which gives information on recent activities in and acquisitions by the library.
2. Know Your Library: Readers’ Guide to the Library. A short introduction to the facilities provided by the library for the benefit of the readers, issued to registered readers at a fee.
3. Pathfinders are available at a fee.

1. A general one
2. Supplements – Law, Chemistry, Geology and Mining, Mathematics, Physics, Religious Studies.

1. Annual Report

Suggestion boxes are located by the library entrances to enable you pass on ideas and/or criticisms to the library. Suggestions about books that you may wish the library to purchase can also be dropped into the boxes. Our preference, however, is that you personally discuss library issues with the University Librarian.

Never hesitate to ask members of the library staff for assistance. Our business is to help you.

TOWNSHIP CAMPUS LIBRARY MAP KEY

1. Bindery
2. Assistant Chief Superintendent of Bindery
3. Librarian-in-Charge of Medical Sciences
4. New Medical Acquisitions
5. Medical Serials Backsets
6. Medical Books Collection
7. Public Catalogue
8. Current Serials
9. Store Room
10. Serials Backsets in storage
11. Bags’ stand
12. Suggestion Box
13. Security Desk
14. Exhibition Area
15. Notice Board
16. Circulation Desk
17. Photocopying Room
18. Readers’ Toilets
19. Staff Toilets
20. Staff Rest Room
21. Medical Audio-Visual Resources Room

1. Bags’ stand
2. Security desk
3. Notice board
4. Suggestion box
5. General enquiries
6. Exhibition area
7. Photocopying room
8. Readers’ toilets
9. Circulation desk and Reserved Collection
10. Head, Catalogue
11. Public catalogue
12. General reference, abstracts and indexes
13. Social Sciences Librarian
14. Law Librarian
15. Books awaiting shelving
16. Current serials
17. Social sciences collection
18. Law collection
19. Subject Librarian’s office
20. Nigerian periodical index
21. Handicapped students reading area
22. Staff toilets
23. Education Librarian
24. Arts Librarian
25. University calendars
26. Arts collection
27. Education collection
28. Librarian-ship collection
29. Documents collection
30. Documents Librarian
31. Microform readers
32. Natural and Pharm. Sciences collection
33. Environmental sciences collection
34. Pharm. Sciences Librarian
35. Natural Sciences Librarian
36. Environmental Sciences Librarian
37. Serials desk
38. Serials backsets
39. Serials section
40. Head, Serials
41. Administrative Officer
42. Orders section
43. Head, Orders
44. Cataloguing section
45. Head, Cataloguing
46. Deputy University Librarian (Administration)
47. Staff rest room
48. University Librarian
49. Secretary to University Librarian
50. General Office

APPENDIX II

The library may be used by:

1. All students, senior staff and families and members of the Council of the University.
2. Research workers authorized by the University Librarian.
3. Junior and intermediate staff of the University on the recommendation of their Heads of Departments and the approval of the University Librarian.
4. Other persons who need to use the library and are authorized by the University Librarian.

1. Anyone wishing to use the library will first fill out a registration card available at the Circulation desk undertaking to observe the library regulations. Registration is valid for the current academic year only and must be renewed thereafter.
2. Each reader granted borrowing privileges will be issued borrowers’ tickets, the number of which depends on the status of the reader (see paragraph 6 below). The tickets are not transferable. In the event of loss, a fee of N2.00 (two naira) will be charged for the replacement of each borrower’s ticket.

1. All registered readers must present their borrowers’ tickets (a ticket per book) and ID card at the Circulation Desk before book is issued on loan.
2. Books in the library, except as provided in section 9, 11 and 12 below, may be borrowed after they have been stamped with a date of return.
3. Senior Academic staff may borrow a maximum of 10 (ten) books at any time.
4. The Head of any academic department may have additional ten books on departmental loan for one semester at a time.
5. Senior non-academic staff, part-time lecturers, research workers and graduate students may borrow a maximum of 6 (six) books at a time.
6. Undergraduate degree students and NYSC members serving the university may borrow a maximum of 4 (four) books at a time.
7. All others may have a maximum of 2 (two) books on loan at any time.
8. Readers are held responsible for all books borrowed with their borrowers’ tickets for period of loan.

1. Lecturers and NYSC members may retain books for 4 (four) weeks.
2. The head of an academic department may retain books on departmental loan for a semester in the first instance and renewable on semester basis, if required.
3. Graduate students, research workers, students, junior and intermediate staff and others may retain books for a period of 2 (two) weeks.
4. Books on loan may be renewed once in a semester.
5. All books must be returned by the end of the current academic year i.e. not later than June 30^th and no books must be taken out of Jos except with the permission of the University Librarian.
6. All books and related materials are lent on the strict understanding that, after half the loan period, they may be recalled by the University Librarian, if urgently needed in the library and must be returned immediately.

1. Students shall return all books on loan from the library before they leave for any vacation. A student may not borrow for the vacation until all the library books in his/her possession have been returned.
2. No student may have more than two books on loan at any time during the long vacation except as 8 (c) below. A refundable deposit of N20.00 (twenty naira) shall be paid by a student on account of each book borrowed during the long vacation. Final year students may not borrow books for the long vacation.
3. Students staying back in the university during the long vacation and working for any of the university departments may borrow books as during the session for the period they stay in the campus provided:

1. They produce a letter of recommendation from the Heads of Departments for which they are working, stating the duration of the vacation job, and
2. They get registered for the vacation.

1. Readers are held responsible for any damage to library books in their charge. This includes marking, writing in, underlining, cutting, or damaging in any way. Readers will be required to pay full estimated cost of repair, normally not exceeding the cost of the books. In case of an irreparable damage, full replacement cost (see para. 17(b) below) will be paid.
2. Borrowers should repot at once the loss or damage of any book(s). In the case of loss, the borrower will be required to pay full replacement cost (see para. 17(b) below).

1. Any student found guilty of cutting, seriously damaging or converting a library book to his/her personal property shall be punished severely including his/her being recommended to the university authority to be sent from the university either temporarily or permanently.

1. Any library user guilty of removing library books without permission shall be punished severely, including his/her being recommended to the university authority to be sent down from the university either temporarily or permanently.
2. Any other library user found guilty of the same offence shall be reported to the university authority for disciplinary action.

1. Any user of the library who retains borrowed books beyond the permitted period will be liable for a fine of 50k (fifty kobo) per working day or part thereof for each book.
2. Any user of the library who retains books borrowed from the reserved books or serials section beyond the permitted period will be liable for a fine of N1.00 (one naira) per book per hour or part thereof.
3. A reader, owing more than N5.00 fine will not be permitted to borrow another book until such a fine has been paid off.
4. All outstanding fines must be settled before a reader’s registration is renewed for the new session.

NOTE: All fines are subject to review.

1. Orderly conduct must be observed in and around the library. Strict silence must be observed in the reading rooms
2. Noise making, footwear and shuffling of feet are disallowed.
3. Briefcases, umbrellas and other baggage must be left by the users at the library entrance at the bag stand at the owners’ risk.
4. Smoking, eating and drinking are not allowed in the reading rooms.
5. All readers leaving the library with books in their possession may be required to present themselves for body search by the library security staff at the entrance of the library.
6. Animals must not be taken into the library.
7. Children under eight, unless escorted, are not allowed into the library.
8. None-members of the library staff may not enter the library offices except, they are permitted by a senior member of the library staff.
9. Reading tables and chairs must not be moved from their positions.
10. Readers shall not reserve seats in the library. Any seats not physically occupied by a reader may be turned over to another reader by the library staff.

1. In these regulations the word "book" means all books, serials, pamphlets, offprints, reprints, manuscripts, photocopies, maps, slides, microforms, photographs and other materials in the custody of the University Librarian.
2. Replacement cost is defined as five times the cost of the books.
3. Reading rooms are defined as rooms in the library other than staff work rooms.

OUTLINE OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION

The Library of Congress Classification Scheme uses letters of the alphabet to indicate the general categories into which the subjects of books can be divided. These letters are not initials of the fields they represent, but are arbitrarily assigned according to the following table:

1. General works e.g. encyclopaedia
2. Philosophy and religion

B-BD, BJ Philosophy

BF – Psychology

BL-BX Religion

3. History: Auxillary Sciences e.g. Heraldry, Genealogy
4. History: General and all countries excluding Americas DT African History (modified).

EF. History: Americas

1. Geography, Anthropology, Folklore, Recreation, etc.
2. Social Sciences

HB-HJ Economics (including transport, commerce, finance, etc)

HM-HV Sociology (including Social Welfare, Criminology)

J.Political Science.

K. Law

L. Education

M. Music

N. Fine arts (including Architecture, Painting, Sculpture, etc)

P. Languages and literature

PA. Classical Languages and Literature

PB-PH Modern European Languages

PJ-PM Languages and Literature of Asia, Africa etc.

PN-PT Literature-General, English, American and European

Q. Science

QA-QE Physical Sciences (including mathematics, physics chemistry, etc)

QM-QR Biological Sciences (including Botany, Zoology, Microbiology etc)

R. Medicine

S. Agriculture

T. Technology (including Engineering, Building Construction, Handicrafts, etc).

TN-TR Mining Engineering, Metallurgy, Chemical Technology

TS Manufacturers, Production Management, Operations Management

U. Military Science

X. Books in Arabic

Z. Bibliography and library science

*This notation is not assigned by the Library of Congress Classification Scheme but is used in this library to indicate books written in Arabic.

 

APPENDIX IV

AUTHOR TITLE CATALOGUE

SAMPLE AUTHOR CARD ENTRY

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SAMPLE TITLE CARD ENTRY

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Trade and Politics in Niger Delta Title

1830-1885

HC517 DIKE, Kenneth ONWUKA, 1917

N48D5

Trade and Politics in the Niger

Delta 1830-1885:an introduction

to the economic and political history

Nigeria. Oxford Clarendon Press,

1956.

vi.250, fold, map, tables (Oxford

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studies in Africa Affairs)

 

SUBJECT CATALOGUE

SAMPLE SUBJECT CARD ENTRY

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NIGERIA ECONOMIC

CONDITIONS Subject Heading

HC317 DIKE, Kenneth Onwuka, 1917

N48D5

Trade and politics in the Niger,

Delta, 1830-1885:an introduction

To the economic and political

History of Nigeria. Oxford

Clarendon press, 1956.

vi. 250p. fold, map, table (Oxford

studies in African Affairs).

M. Sc. (Jos) Senior Librarian - Systems Unit