Contact Information

• Name:

  University of Maiduguru Library, Special Collections

• Postal Address:

  Private Mail Bag 1069
  Maiduguri, Borno State
  Nigeria

• Location:

  Bama Road

• Telephone:

  +234 (076) 231725

• Director:

  James Abayomi Agaja

• Year founded:

  1975

Collections

• Type of repository:

  Library

• Types of source material:

  Business records
  Ephemera
  Government records
  Grey literature
  Manuscripts
  Maps
  Music
  Newspapers
  Oral histories
  Personal papers
  Photographs
  Posters
  Sound recordings
  

• Size:

  78 square metres

• Holdings:

  The Library's special collection is made up of materials on Africa, with special emphasis on Nigeria. It has two sections: Africana and Nigeriana. Under Nigeriana, there is the newly created Bornoana which assembles materials on Bornu.

• Receiving new material?

  No

• Languages:

  English, German, French, local dialects
  

Access Conditions

• Access conditions:

  1.Registration with the library<br> 2.Borrower's ticket or presentation of registration card for closed access materials.

• Access restrictions:

  No

• Finding tools:

  Accession lists or registers
  Card catalogs
  Guides
  

• Copier available?:

  No

Repository publications: