THE FEDERAL
POLYTECHNIC, UKANA LIBRARY
Federal
Polytechnic Library, Ukana was established in June, 2014 mainly to serve the
information needs of the Polytechnic in achieving its mission of developing
manpower with skills for excellence and self-reliance in technological and
professional competencies through adequate linkages, teaching, learning,
research and services to the community. The Polytechnic Library is located
centrally in the annex campus of the Polytechnic. The library’s building offers
a welcoming and stimulating environment for learning and research and provides
an accessible user- friendly environment for effective information service
delivery.
Library units
The
seating capacity of the library is currently accommodating approximately 120
readers at a time. The library houses seven (7) units namely: Administrative unit,
Acquisitions, Technical Processing, Circulation, Reference, Serials and E –
Resources Units. The opening hours of the library during Semesters are from
8:30 am to 6.00pm, Mondays to Fridays, Saturdays -8:30am to 1:00pm. During
Vacation, the library opens for use between 9.00am to 4.00pm and remains closed
on Sundays and during official public holidays.
Resources
The
library’s collection covers printed, electronic resources, audio-visuals
materials, digitized, rare books and archival resources relevant for the
different schools on grounds: Applied Sciences, Engineering, Business and
Management studies.
E-Library services
Beside the printed resources, the library has an e-library unit which offers electronic information resources to compliment the print resources to its users. This has impacted the quality of research, teaching and learning of the students and staff of the polytechnic community. The unit holds digital resources in CDs, E-books and E-journals accessible using the computers in the unit, etc. The section also makes provision for downloading and printing of information resources from reputable databases, subscription to databases, providing internet services, co-operating with other libraries for the purpose of resource sharing, providing Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI) and Current Awareness Services (CAS) to library users as well as providing information literacy on use of electronic resources. With internet services ongoing, the library is currently embarking on online services to ensure the visibility of our services and resources to our users and outside communities who may have interest in our local contents through network services. Access to relevant current journals in the respective programmes run by the institution is made easy with the internet services ongoing.
The main library
Federal
Polytechnic Ukana hopes to operate a two-campus library system. Aside from the
annex campus library, there is the main library at the main campus – newly
constructed and near completion. This library is located adjacent to the
administrative building block at the main campus of the polytechnic. It is
expected that the main library would accommodate more than 450 readers at a
time.