All you need to know about Futo e-library

Futo library

The Library, Federal

University of Technology, Owerri,

started on 3 August 1981 were the

University was initially sited at Lake

Nwabere campus, but its doors were

opened to readers on 9 November, 1981

with approximately 2,500 volumes of

books and related materials. The Library

has grown in leaps and bounds in all

facets of its operation since the Library

moved along with the University to its

permanent site on 17 May, 1993, from a

meager collection of 2,500 volumes at

inception to over 90,000 volumes , Journal

(electronic and hardcopy), documents and

maps.

As part of the Library development, the

Library is automated and access provided

through ALICE For Windows; Online Public

Access Catalogue (OPAC). Access is

provided for both online and offline

databases namely: The Essential

Electronic Agricultural Library

(TEEAL), Access to Global On-line

Research in Agriculture (AGORA), Health

Internetwork Access to Research Initiative

(HINARI), Online Access to Research in

Environment (OARE), Science Direct and

ProQuest. The Institutional Repository of

the University is housed in the Library

using ENDNOTE and is presently being

migrated to DSPACE. Through the Library

electronic access is provided to theses/

dissertation, lectures, proceedings,

journals, textbooks emanating from the

University.

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