Survey of Funding Policy and Acquisition of Information Resources in Federal College of Education (FCE) Library, Zaria, Kaduna- Nigeria
Keywords:
Survey, Funding, Policy, Acquisition, Information, Resources, College LibraryAbstract
The tertiary education sector in Nigeria is made up of three categories of institutions these are Universities, Polytechnics/Colleges of Technology and Colleges of Education, the Federal Government of Nigeria evidently recognizes the important roles library play in education and research through provision of information services as recommended by the National Universities Commission (NUC), hence it recommends that a minimum of 10% of each institution’s recurrent budget be spent on the development of their libraries. This paper has conducted research on funding policy and acquisition of information resources in federal college of education, zaria, so that the research has revealed the actual sources of fund, Acquisition policy and adequate funding made available in provision to acquisition of information resources in federal college of education, zaria. Recommendations for functional use of funding on acquisition Information Resources in federal college of education library have also been given.
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