AAU library is currently expanding to meet the growing number and demands of graduate students. This is overburdened by thousands of undergraduate students. \u00a0This has been felt strongly by AAU and the Ethiopian Government that allocated the required budget to put up a new structure as that is much bigger than the old but vital Kennedy Library, a donation by the Kennedy Family, USA. Now the AAU library is working relentlessly to equip this new library with the necessary facilities using Sida grants. So far, facilities for mini printing and digitization shops have been purchased (see illustrations, below) and the library is being networked to provide it with internet facilities.<\/p>\n
The library has entered into agreements with international publishing houses organized by International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) among whom prominent publishers such as\u00a0 Elsevier and others to make contemporary publications available to graduate students and researchers.<\/p>\n
PhD and MA\/MSc dissertations are being uploaded as soon as they are defended successfully and the soft copies come into the Main Library.<\/p>\n
Addressing\u00a0 the \u00a0networking\u00a0 problems of\u00a0 twenty two \u00a0AAU\u00a0 libraries\u00a0 and\u00a0 facilitating\u00a0 the exchange\u00a0 of \u00a0soft\u00a0 copy\u00a0 materials \u00a0to \u00a0users \u00a0to \u00a0any \u00a0distant\u00a0 request\u00a0 point\u00a0 is \u00a0surely\u00a0 a challenging task given the ages old still unresolved ICT infrastructure of AAU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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