To facilitate the achievement of the above objectives, the Library departmentalizes its operations into the following functional units: 

• Collection Development Unit

The Unit has responsibility of coordinating faculty selection of information materials and acquisition of same for teaching, learning and research programmes of the University. Also, it functions to receive and process reading materials before passing them to Cataloguing and Classification Unit.

In the period under reference, the Unit received a reasonable number of information materials donated through the University Librarian’s office. Also received were the departmental book and journal requests to the Vice Chancellor for accreditation purposes that were purchased and sent for cataloguing and classification.

Acquisitions Unit

The pattern of acquisitions is through Direct Procurement, Donations and TETFund intervention. 

• Cataloguing and Classification Unit

The Unit is responsible for processing of the information materials that are received into the library.   This processing activity is associated with materials description so that users can access them when they come to make use of the library.  

• Bindery Unit

The library is about starting a Bindery service to handle the binding of newspapers, backsets of journals, and student projects.

• Faculty Reading Areas

The three halls in the two storey library building have been arranged, beginning with the ground floor to accommodate books for Faculty of Arts; Faculty of Natural and Applied Sciences; and Faculty of Management & Social Sciences. The detailed subjects covered in each room and the sitting capacities are as under;  

• Faculty of Arts Reading Area

This reading room houses books on English Language, Theater Arts and the Department of History and International Studies. It has a seating capacity for 132 readers.

• Faculty of Natural and Applied Sciences Reading Area

The Area has information materials on Chemistry, Computer Science, Geography, Mathematics, Microbiology, Biochemistry and Physics with a sitting accommodation for 104 patrons.

• Faculties of Management & Social Sciences Joint

Two related faculties have been merged together to occupy this reading room with a seating capacity of 108 readers. The disciplines covered in this reading area are Economics, Sociology, Psychology, Political Science, Mass Communication, Management Studies and Accounting.

• E-Library

The Unit is well equipped with facilities that can accommodate 120 users at a time browsing eBooks via eGranary Browser also with the help of Ebsco Academic Search Complete Database.

• Serials Reading Room

This Unit has a seating capacity for 40 users. Activities in the Unit consist of reading and consultation of journals and newspapers for information, teaching and research. 

• Reference Service

This Unit is equipped with such reference sources as encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Year Books, Atlases, Government Publications, Reports etc. and others that are mainly for consultation.

• Photocopying Service – Reprographic Unit

This is a newly introduced Unit with the sole aim of assisting library users to make photocopy of portions of materials needed to avoid material mutilation and as well generate revenue internally for the Department.  The Unit is meant to be self-sustaining.

• Circulation Unit

The Circulation Unit, being an important Unit that gives service to the public, ensures that the information needs of the patrons, i.e., staff, students, the University community and researchers are met adequately. It is the library’s first place of contact with its customers. The Unit functions to charge out and discharge reading materials, register readers and ensure that library rules and regulations are obeyed among others. 

• Registration and Issuance of Borrowers’ Tickets to Patrons:

The Unit is vested with the responsibility of registering patrons by collecting necessary information and biodata indicated in the registration form. Thereafter, borrowers’ tickets are issued to the patrons to enable them access borrow library materials for home use.

• Charging and Discharging Library Materials:

The Unit lends out processed library materials (print and non-print) to duly registered readers.

• Sending Out Overdue Notices to Defaulting Patrons:

Patrons who have exceeded the stipulated return date of borrowed library materials are sent overdue notices. They are communicated through short messages alerts of telephone calls.