| Library Services With the facilities available, the
following main services are rendered:
1. Electronic literature Search:
On the library CD-ROM
workstation, list of books, list of articles with
abstracts and list of documents with digests are
provided from the current and back issues of CD-ROM
databases.
2. Catalogue and loan:
The Library offers an
author, title, and subject divided card catalogue.
The Catalogue gives access to information on the
stock by author, title and subject. Staff and
graduate students may borrow up to 15 items for 5
months.
Undergraduate students may
similarly borrow up to 2 items for 2 weeks. The staff
and students are required to return them on the time
or renew their loans, as fines are imposed.
3. Reference and Reserve:
Reference, periodicals or
Journals, and some document Collections are kept in
the open access stack of the main library and
Graduate Library. Dictionaries are available at
corners of Reading Halls. In addition, rare reference
materials and some textbooks which are small in
number compared to the number of user students are
reserved in the circulation desks. All the above
collections are organized to be used only in the
library.
4. Inter-Library Loans:
Materials which are not
available in the library can be borrowed from Addis
Ababa University Libraries, British Council Library
and British Library Document supply center (BLDSC)
for graduate students conducting their research, and
for the staff.
5. Photocopying:
The library provides a
photocopy service to the staff and students who
intend to have copies of some library materials at
reasonable prices.
6. Library publicity/
Publications:
The monthly acquired and
catalogued lists of books, Periodicals and Documents
are provided in the monthly Book Accession Lists, and
Periodical and Document Accession Lists. Guides on
how to use the catalogue, Guides to periodicals and
Descriptions of the available CD-ROM databases are
provided.
7. Acquisition:
The library provides current
and back issue catalogues of journals, books, and
equipment. The catalogues are acquired from 25
publishers and distributors around the world.
Catalogues of books are available on CD-ROMs as well
as on hard copies. Users may suggest list of books,
journals, documents and CD-ROMs to the Librarian. The
newly acquired books, the latest issues of journals,
Documents, Series and pamphlets are displayed upon
their arrivals.
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