Libraries

Yaba College of Technology meets the needs ofThe College Library students, lecturers and the international research community with an extremely rich and diverse range of library resources provided by the institutions and other bodies.

The Main Library in the College is an Ultra Modern structure which constitutes the Academic nerve centre of the college. With its Departmental Units, the College library presently holds a total of 68,000(sixty-eight thousand) volumes of books and has a seating capacity for 1,000 readers. The College library is driven by X-Lib Software with 20,000 books currently registered on the software for efficient management of the College books.

Yabatech is also home to several other libraries of national and international repute and rating. Such libraries include Departmental Libraries which have divers collections of research work, students' projects, etc. The Main Library; College Library; which dates from 1988, is also one of the oldest libraries in the Country and in Africa as a whole. It has effectively been a legal deposit library for nearly 18 years and as such can claim a copy of every latest books and periodical.

Yaba College of Technology is Director Lagos,British Council, Nigeria, Sam Harvey actively involved in equipping its libraries with the latest Resources to meet up with the latest Technological and Academic standards. Sequel to this, the British Council donated 2,600 volumes of books to the College in September 2005. At a formal presentation of the books, the Director Lagos, British Council, Nigeria, Sam Harvey declared that the Council's Association with the College has been a mutually rewarding tie and the donation was to seal the continuation of the valuable partnership. In his welcome remark, the Rector, Olubunmi Owosho applauded the Council's gesture in donating such huge volume of relevant books, stating that "they are topical".

The books donated cut across Engineering, Environmental, Science and Humanities. The rector assured the Council that the books will be judiciously used by the Students and Staff in advancing the College programmes in imparting knowledge and acquisition of skills towards profession excellence
Library Guide
GROUND FLOOR
  • Circulation Desk/Public Relations Unit
  • Serials Department
  • Cataloguing & Classification Department & ICT 
  • Acquisition & Collection Development Department and Bindery
In terms of Administrative Office:
          Deputy Polytechnic Librarian          
 
GROUND FLOOR/MEZANINE
  • Reference Section
  • Audio Visual
  • Readers' Services/Reading Area
In terms of Administrative Office:
                    
FIRST FLOOR
  • Computer Science
  • Philosophy
  • Religion
  • Social Sciences
  • Languages
  • Readers' Services/Reading Area
In terms of Administrative Office:
          The Polytechnic Librarian          
 
FIRST FLOOR/MEZANINE
  • The Arts
  • Literature
  • Geography/History
  • Readers' Services/Reading Area
In terms of Administrative Office:
          Archives, Research & Documentation  
Staff Library/Reading Area
        Departmental Libraries within the College
  • Computer Science Library - located at the College Hall
  • Department of Statistics Library

                           

 

 

 

 

    A student in The College Library