Library Mission and Vision
The Library mission is to provide an adequate learning environment and quality user-centered information services that enhance excellent education, training, research and community service endeavors of the University and fostering the human development of citizens.
Library Goals
1.To serve as a resource to the University community by providing materials of quality, diversity, relevance, and balance that will support the needs of the University, promote the development of staff, student critical analysis skills, informed judgment and success.
2. To establish, promote and maintain a wide range of services including IT based ones for supporting the academic programs of the University and encourage optimum exploitation of the resources of the Library.
3. To function as a resource in providing access to information and materials in other libraries through participation in regional and national information networks and systems.
4. To building the information literacy skills of its users continuously by conducting proper user education and instruction through a variety of methods in order to allow an effective use of the Library
5. To recruit and retain qualified and experienced professional Librarians who will offer high quality services to the users of the Library and maintain innovative activities.
6. To provide a safe and attractive working environment that will encourage study and other academic works.
Library Functions and Services
1. To establish and maintain a range and quality of services and resources that will complement and strengthen the academic programs of the University.
2. To encourage optimal use of the resources.
3. To provide information literacy training to classes and user guidance.
4. To provide resources in a variety of formats to meet varied user needs.
5. To provide technical expertise for maintaining the Library resources.
6. To create, maintain and preserve locally produced knowledge within the University and provide free access to the users.
7. To provide a comfortable and quiet working space for users.
SERVICES
• Circulation service
• Loan service
• Internet service
• Reference service
• Documentation service
• Reference and Research Support
• Community services for high school students
Clearance
For Undergraduate (UG) Students:
• Clearance Requirement:
o Must obtain clearance when applying for campus leave (e.g., transfer, withdrawal, graduation).
• Condition:
o Clearance is required as they will no longer be using library resources.
For Postgraduate (PG) Students:
• Clearance Requirement:
o Must obtain clearance when applying for campus leave (e.g., transfer, withdrawal, graduation).
• Additional Requirements:
o All soft copies of the thesis and dissertation must be submitted.
o Hard copies of the thesis and dissertation are required if the results are rated as “Very Good” or above to complete the clearance process.
Technologies in Use
• Digital Library:The library has implemented Digital library using DSpace Digita library software. Digital contents (eBooks and e-Journals) are organized, built and accessible for users via internet in the campus network (http://10.10.9.27:4000)
• Digital Repository: OSU Library has implemented Institutional Repository (IR) system using DSpace digital repository software to collect, manage, preserve and disseminate collections of digital content generated by school, staff, students at OSU.
Accessible on(http://10.10.9.27:4000/communities/fb1c5591-940f-4c7e-9996-ea243528bf6f)
• Koha: (Under construction)
Open Access Resources
• OSU-Journal JLPSR
The International Journal of Leadership and Public Sector Reform (IJLPSR), open access, and peer-reviewed academic journal published by Oromia State University, Batu. It aims to encourage and promote original thinking in various fields of Leadership and Public Sector Reform. The journal also offers a unique perspective on policy issues critical to developing economics and the world. It publishes original theoretical and empirical contributions in various fields.
Accessible on: https://journals.osu.edu.et/
• DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
Database of open access journals covering all scientific and scholarly subjects. Primarily used to identify open access journal titles and forty percent of them are searchable at the article level. Journals can be browsed by title or by broad subject area. Articles are searchable by article author or title, ISSN, journal title, abstract, or key words. Full-text is not searchable but is fully accessible. To be included in the DOAJ, journals must use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access and must exercise peer-review or editorial quality control.
• Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Hindawi Publishing Corporation is one of the world’s largest publishers of peer-reviewed, fully Open Access journals across many areas of science, technology, and medicine, as well as several areas of social science. Hindawi’s journals are indexed in the leading abstracting and indexing databases, including the Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, INSPEC, Mathematical Reviews, and Chemical Abstracts.
• Connexions
OpenStax CNX is a dynamic non-profit digital ecosystem serving millions of users per month in the delivery of educational content to improve learning outcomes. There are tens of thousands of learning objects, called pages, that are organized into thousands of textbook-style books in a host of disciplines, all easily accessible online and downloadable to almost any device, anywhere, anytime.
• MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.
• The African Virtual University’s (AVU) Open Educational Resources (OER) portal
The Portal was launched in January 2011 and hosts more than 200 textbooks of Mathematics, Sciences and Teacher Education as well as 91 videos. As at June 2011, the AVU OER resources were viewed or downloaded 200,000 times in 142 countries worldwide, including 41 African countries.
• Open Education News blog
Open Education News provides readers with a daily dose of the most relevant open education and open educational resources news from around the world.
• Flat World Knowledge (FWK)
Flat World Knowledge produces and gives away open source textbooks in a way student believe to be financially sustainable. It offers free online textbooks. E–books have been proposed as one potential solution; open source textbooks have also been explored.
• Multimedia Educational Resource for learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT)
MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.
• Open Educational Resources
Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others. OER include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.
• OER Commons
Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME’s) OER initiatives aim to grow a sustainable culture of sharing and continuous improvement among educators at all levels. In 2007, ISKME launched OER Commons, its digital public library and collaboration platform, informed by the organization’s pioneering efforts in knowledge management and educational innovation. OER Commons offers a comprehensive infrastructure for curriculum experts and instructors at all levels to identify high-quality OER and collaborate around their adaptation, evaluation, and use to address the needs of teachers and learners. Diving into OER Commons is an exciting opportunity to collaborate with other educators and learners, at the forefront of a new educational era.
• OER Handbook
The purpose of this handbook is to provide a guide for those who are just getting started in the creation of open educational resources (OER). Significant progress has been made by many in the open education movement to help acclimatize novices.
• Issue Lab
First started in 2006 as a searchable, browseable website set up to collect and share the social sector’s knowledge, IssueLab became a service of Foundation Center in 2012. Since then, IssueLab’s mission has grown beyond the “simple” collection and distribution of knowledge products, to include the support of social sector organizations in adopting the practical and necessary steps to openly publishing what they fund and produce.
• OpenLearn
OpenLearn gives you free access to learning materials from The Open University. It has content which stretches back to 1999, when The Open University created Open2.net, providing free online learning to support broadcast collaborations with the BBC.
• OpenUCT
OpenUCT is the open access institutional repository of the University of Cape Town (UCT). It makes available and digitally preserves the scholarly outputs produced at UCT, including theses and dissertations, journal articles, book chapters, technical and research reports, and open educational resources. These resources are organised into collections that are mapped against the university’s organisational structure. The repository has been developed in line with international interoperability and metadata standards using DSpace open source software, and is indexed by all major search engines. It was launched in Jul14.
• VideoLectures
VideoLectures.NET is an award-winning free and open access educational video lectures repository. The lectures are given by distinguished scholars and scientists at the most important and prominent events like conferences, summer schools, workshops and science promotional events from many fields of Science. The portal is aimed at promoting science, exchanging ideas and fostering knowledge sharing by providing high quality didactic contents not only to the scientific community but also to the general public. All lectures, accompanying documents, information and links are systematically selected and classified through the editorial process taking into account also users’ comments.
• Excel-easy.com
Excel Easy offers you a tutorial on how to use Excel. You can find related examples and features (300 Examples) on the excel easy website.