The University Library was one of the establishment offices, which took off on the offices of the Government College, Ojo, and the then recently finished site of the Methodist Boys' High School. The interim site has progressively transformed into a created perpetual site with a tastefully planned new all-inclusive strategy that will change the University principle grounds to a lovely engineering design befitting of a University grounds in the 21st century and past.
The establishment temporary Governing Council left on the designation of the accessible structures on the destinations to serve particular elements of the new University. In December 1983, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, the then legislative leader of Lagos State and Visitor to the Lagos State University turned the turf of what was to be the Library building. The feasting corridor of the Government College, with its contiguous kitchen, stores and offices were relied upon to serve as the interim offices for the Library for a long time pending the development of the new Library building.
The exhausting errand of remodeling, transformation and repairing started vigorously. Spaces required for staff, perusers and materials were made. An aggregate territory of 507sq.m was made. Acquisitions, indexing and serials offices were cut out of this space. Another range for flow and hold books was likewise mapped out. Vast perusing regions with a nearby racking region were made. The previous stores were changed over to office spaces, meeting room and varying media room. Existing toilets were restored and extra ones made for the extensive understudy populace imagined. By 1985/86 scholarly year it got to be convenient to have an augmentation as the past space had turned out to be terribly deficient. By this expansion an extra space of 343sq.m. was made, bringing the aggregate floor space to 850sq.m. Convenience expanded from 200 to 350 seats and racking space from 30,000 volumes to 50,000 volumes. The interest for expanded space for racking, perusers and staff proceeded with unabated till this day.
The Library with its starting 2,281 volumes of books in 1984 now has around 60,000 volumes in the year 2006. Also, the scholastic diary membership ascended from 741 to 3,000 in 2006. The past 87 nearby diary titles of 1986 have ascended to more than 200 neighborhood diary and daily papers in year 2006.
The University Library has accumulations in different fields, for example, Accounting, Agriculture, Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Industrial and Labor Relations, Business Administration, Public Administration, Chemistry, Economics, Management Technology, Psychology, Geography, Insurance, English, Music Education, Engineering (Electronics, Computer, Mechanical and Chemical), Finance, Geography, Health Sciences, History, Law, Nigerian Languages, Mathematics, Foreign Languages, Performing Arts, Physics, Political Science, Religion and Sociology. Library administrations to the staff, understudies and the group incorporate photocopying, between Library advances, microfilm perusing, CD-Rom look, Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC), EBSCO Host Online Journal Search (NULIB). Point by point guideline and educating in Library use is given to students as a feature of the General Studies program. With its mechanization extend, the University Library has moved into the 21st century. The Library programming at present being used is Alice for Windows. This product comes in 3 modules (flow, procurement and administration). Review transformation of manual Library records is in the blink of an eye going on, and will be finished soon. The Library is en route to having a virtual/e-Library compliment which will interface the Library with the world by means of Internet.
The University Library now contains the Fatiu Ademola Akesode Library (primary Library), the Taslim Olawale Elias Law Library, the Medical Library in LASUCOM Ikeja, the School of Communication Library in Surulere and the Engineering Library in Epe.
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