AGUNGI ACADEMIC LIBRARY

AGUNGI ACADEMIC LIBRARY

BACKGROUND

Agungi Academic Library  started in 2000  as a small reading building for people with one small room ,limited books and inadequate furniture. During 2011 elections, One of the MP of  Arua. district in partnership with the library owner agreed to construct a bigger library that could accommodate big population of both students from institutions within and other community 

Location
Agungi Academic   Library is located in the Southern Division of Arua Municipality, Arua District. The library serves the Academic Community and the Public

 

Patrons at the reading section

Objective

Library aims at achieving the Academic objectives which are to support Teaching and Learning, Research within the community it serves and Community outreach. These objectives are achieved through provision of a well-managed information stock and a tranquil study environment.

Collection

The library has a collection of both hard and soft forms of information source materials. There are 10990 hard copies, which include books and periodicals. The Library also collects, and subscribes to, electronic resources to access full-text journals, company information, e-books, reference books, economic data, digital images, industry profiles, market research and career information in electronic form. The on-shelf hard copies and e-resources cover a range of disciplines including basic sciences, health sciences, applied sciences, education, arts and humanities, and social sciences. These resources can be accessed and utilised either within or outside the library.

The Library offers a range of services including: Information Provision and Reference, Internet and E-Resource, Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC), Patron Administration, Charging and Discharging, Current Awareness Service (CAS), Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI), User Education, Information Retrieval and Dissemination, Reprographic Service, Binding and Repairs.

Agungi Academic Library Circulation Desk

The library is organized into sections such as; Reference section
This has functions and services such as:

• Registration of users;
• Issuing borrower’s cards;
• User Education;
• Information /help desk;
• Technical services Section;
  This section provides all technical services such as cataloguing and classification. The section is meant for library staff who organizes information materials for users. It is out of bounds for library users.



Agungi Academic reference Section

The Library fulfills its mandate through continuous:

• Acquisition of information source materials through purchase and receiving donations
• Processing of newly received materials by recording, cataloging and classification
• Organizing library collections by arranging them in an order that facilitates location, access and retrieval.
• Stock-taking, which is normally done to have a record of library stock so as to have information on lost stock, obsolete stock, up-to-date stock and discipline strengths.

  

  Kindle Fire

The library has continued to expand both physically and electronically. It is now in the initial stages of extending library services to Neighboring district of Koboko and Yumbe. In the foreseeable future, book banks or resource centers or branch libraries shall be established other institutes.

As part of furtherance of easy access to e-resources and physical material information resources, the Library service fully embraces ICT in all its operations and service delivery. The target is a full-fledged digital library where the physical library acts as a strong back up.

Agungi Bonniface

Librarian 

Agungi Academic  Library