Repositories

  • Contact Information

    • Name:

      Addis Ababa University Library

    • Postal Address:

      P.O.B. 1176
      Addis Ababa
      Ethiopia

    • Telephone:

      (251-1) 560442

    • Facsimile:

      (251-1) 550655

    • E-mail:

      libraries@aau.edu.et

    • URL:

      http://libraries.aau.edu.et

    • Director:

      Girma Makonnen

    • Year founded:

      1950

  • Collections

    • Type of repository:

      Library

    • Types of source material:

      Archival records
      Business records
      Electronic archives
      Ephemera
      Government records
      Grey literature
      Manuscripts
      Maps
      Music
      Newspapers
      Oral histories
      Other
      Personal papers
      Sound recordings

    • Size:

      500,000 volumes

    • Holdings:

      The Addis Ababa University Library system as an academic library collects materials which assist the curriculum that the university undertakes. It has 6 branch libraries attached to different faculties. The main university library (John F. Kennedy Memorial Library) hold materials mostly on social sciences and humanities. The collecton of the library system is nearly 500,000 catalogued volumes. More than half of the collection was published before 1980.

    • Receiving new material?

      No

    • Languages:

      English

  • Access Conditions

    • Finding tools:

      Accession lists or registers
      Card catalogs
      Guides
      Inventories

    • Copier available?:

      No

  • Repository publications: