The College Library

Ethiopia defense and command college library is an academic library intended to provide updated information resources to the teaching – learning, research and community service. Student, instructors and researchers of the college are the main users of the college library. In addition to this the library section stands to serve the whole communities of the college. As one of the functional component of the college, it is responsible to deliver quality library services effectively to fulfil its users need to enable them to achieve their teaching- learning and research objective.

We are living in the dynamic environment where information is fabricated frequently with time. Utilizing these information effectively and appropriately by preserving, organizing and disseminating for constructing knowledge economy is the fundamental issue of the day. Satisfying users’ information need with quality library service at a maximum level is the college library’s aim. Its mission is achieved by acquiring different information sources, organizing in a systematically manner can be accessible to its users. Our library resources can be accessible with the library database, through this system the availability of needed resources with its number of copies and location can be known from the collection.

To provide a reasonable service to its users, the library has a working document which guides both the library staff and library users. The document describes the techniques and procedures, services and facilities, rules and regulations and working hours of the library. It’s intended to help the library staff and library users to understand the various aspects of their job and to ensure an efficient and responsive service to users and to aware the whole system.

The college library works to create long-life self-learners society. We are in information age where there is much information with different formats and individuals are to go through it and build his/ her own knowledge. At the last as the functional unit of the college, the college library is working with full effort for supporting teaching- learning and research activities as well as for the realization of the mission and vision of the Ethiopian Defense and Staff College.