SAM JONAH LIBRARY

Clients Services Department

The Clients Services Department consists of four Sections: Reference and Students Support, Reader and Circulation, Persons with Special Needs, and Satellite Libraries. An important component of the Client Services Department is faculty liaisons. The faculty liaison officers are to have direct contact with the respective academic departments and individual Academic Staff to promote library collections and services.

Collection Management and Technical Support Department

The Department of Collection Management and Technical Services is a division of the Library responsible for the development and management of library collections as well as technical services of the Library. The Department has four (4) Sections and five (5) Units. The sections are Acquisition, Preservation and Curriculum Support, Cataloguing, Bindery and Photocopying Section, Periodicals Section, and Special Collection Section.  The Cataloguing, Bindery and Photocopying Section has two units: Bindery Unit and Photocopying Unit.  The Special Collection Section also has three units: the Gallery Unit, Africana Unit and the Development Information Unit.

Brief information about the section

The Library Administration provides administrative support, Logistic Support, Records management, Physical Facilities Management, Meetings, Human Resource (HR) issues, Procurement, Accounts Management, Library Advancement, Marketing and Advocacy etc.

Contact info of section: 033 21 30952/3 Ext 119

Hours and location: 9am 4.30pm, Ground Floor

Information Technology and Research Support Department

The Department is responsible for managing the Information Technological infrastructure of the Library for optimal functioning of all its services and resources. The department works in collaboration with the Directorate of ICT and conforms to the ICT policy of the University.  The Department comprises four (4) sections: Library Information Technology Infrastructure Support Section, Learning and Research Support Section, Electronic Resources Management/Digital Services and Information Literacy Section and Distance Library Services Section.