| Covenant University Library | |
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| 6°40′13″N3°09′26″E / 6.6704°N 3.1571°E | |
| Location | Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria |
| Established | 2004 |
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| Director | ILO Promise |
| Website | clrmain |
Covenant University Library, also known as Centre for Learning Resources (CLR), is the library of Covenant University in Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria. It is housed in a three-story glass building with a seating capacity of 3,500. [1] [2]
The library is located amidst the college buildings, the chapel and the halls of residence. [3] [4] [5]
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. [6] The building has three floors with a space of 11,300 square metres with a seating capacity of 3,500. [7] 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 software 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 Innovative Interfaces, which provided a web interface with access to the catalogues of other libraries. [8]
The library serves over 8,079 students and 458 faculty members. It is the second university library in Nigeria to develop an institutional repository using EPrints, an open-source self-archiving software. [9] The repository has consistently ranked the best in West Africa in the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities. [4]
As of 2020 [update] , the library's collection includes 131,465 printed volumes and 774,000 electronic books. It also has over 50,000 electronic journals and 2,498 hard copies across all disciplines. [10] Regularly updated electronic databases facilitate access to the library's collections. Bibliographic details of the library collections are held in a digitized format which is accessible on computer terminals in the library and remotely using Millennium ILS Software. [3]
Escapist reading: this section provides educational video documentaries that combine leisure, recreation and learning. [16]
Spiritual and Leadership Development: the resources comprise literature on leadership and spiritual growth, in print, audio and audio-visual formats. [17]
Monthly seminars: the library holds monthly seminars to discuss research findings and current trends in Library and Information Science. These seminars offer primary and secondary school teachers and students information literacy skills development for both digital and analogue learning environments. [18]
Liaison librarians: librarians are assigned to liaise with the university's four colleges and the School of Postgraduate Studies. [19]
Community services and outreach: the 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. [18]
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