Who we are
The University Library, known as the Hezekiah Oluwasanmi Library (named after its second Vice Chancellor (1966 -1975), was established in 1962. It has therefore continued to render library and information services to the OAU community for over six decades. The Library belongs to the 1st generation in the tertiary education space within the Nigerian State. The collections consist of over 800,000 volumes and 265,764 titles of journals (381,528 Issue parts). In addition, the Library is a repository of Nigerian Newspapers dating from 1970 till date, as well as the old Western State Court Records (1900-1960). These collections of arrays (by age and scope) therefore represent a trajectory in the information resource and holdings landscape between the old and the new within the Nigerian academia.
Our Mandate
The University’s academic organ with the mandate to provide library and information services as part of the Obafemi Awolowo University’s major mission of teaching, research and community service.o An academic and major variable in programme establishment and accreditationo An “Intellectual Convener” (Singh and Kaur, 2009). This is achieved in the course of advancing knowledge through preservation and granting of access to a wide range of information.
Vision
To be a top-class University Library, an information as well as a knowledge hub in the discovery, creation, curation and provision of access to the universe of information and knowledge in the service of the advancement of teaching, research community service using world-class technologies and appropriate multi-modal strategies.
Mission Statement
To reposition the University Library and information services as variables of social, economic, cultural and technological development through the enrichment of teaching, learning and research processes with the avalanche of information resources and premium service quality.
What we do
- Teaching, research and community service;
- Providing services to fourteen (14) faculties and over 173 programmes;
- Selection, acquisition, organisation and dissemination of information resources;
- Promotion of Reading Culture, Knowledge Sharing and Information Literacies;
Who we are
The University Library, known as the Hezekiah Oluwasanmi Library (named after its second Vice Chancellor (1966 -1975), was established in 1962. It has therefore continued to render library and information services to the OAU community for over six decades. The Library belongs to the 1st generation in the tertiary education space within the Nigerian State. The collections consist of over 800,000 volumes and 265,764 titles of journals (381,528 Issue parts). In addition, the Library is a repository of Nigerian Newspapers dating from 1970 till date, as well as the old Western State Court Records (1900-1960). These collections of arrays (by age and scope) therefore represent a trajectory in the information resource and holdings landscape between the old and the new within the Nigerian academia.
Our Mandateo
The University’s academic organ with the mandate to provide library and information services as part of the Obafemi Awolowo University’s major mission of teaching, research and community service.o An academic and major variable in programme establishment and accreditationo An “Intellectual Convener” (Singh and Kaur, 2009). This is achieved in the course of advancing knowledge through preservation and granting of access to a wide range of information.
Vision
To be a top-class University Library, an information as well as a knowledge hub in the discovery, creation, curation and provision of access to the universe of information and knowledge in the service of the advancement of teaching, research community service using world-class technologies and appropriate multi-modal strategies.
Mission Statement
To reposition the University Library and information services as variables of social, economic, cultural and technological development through the enrichment of teaching, learning and research processes with the avalanche of information resources and premium service quality.
What we do
- Teaching, research and community service;
- Providing services to fourteen (14) faculties and over 173 programmes;
- Selection, acquisition, organisation and dissemination of information resources;
- Promotion of Reading Culture, Knowledge Sharing and Information Literacies;
