On behalf of the Dambai College of Education Library, I extend a warm welcome to DACE students, faculty members and staff.
The Dambai College of Education Libraries include the main library where traditional prints are housed, and the Electronic library, all within the Professor Ofori-Danson Library Complex. Our Collections include Books, Journals, Compact Disks etc.
The provision of high quality and relevant information resources and services to support teaching, learning and research needs of students, staff and faculty of the College is the library’s primary responsibility. To achieve the object of the library and that of the College, we have designed a wide range of products and services that have helped us to continuously exceed patrons’ expectations, making the College library the preferred destination for all scholarly and social activities. We have dedicated, supportive and responsible staff to assist you in your academic journey with the aid of our standard resources (print and electronic), anytime, anywhere.
Together with my team, we deem it a privilege to have been given the arduous task of creating an enabling environment to support cutting-edge research as well as high quality teaching and learning in this College.
In view of these, it is our hope that you will partner the we encourage you to take advantage of our rich information resources that are available both in print and electronic formats for your studies. We strive to continually improve on our service to meet the diverse information needs of our patrons, and so, look forward to receiving your feedback on our product and services.
Best wishes for a successful and fulfilling academic year at the Dambai College of Education.
yours sincerely,
Fred Alpha Adams
The Library has two main objectives namely to:
The above objectives of the library are achieved in the following ways:
Collection Development
The library collaborates with faculty to ensure that relevant, up-to-date and good quality books are acquired to support the mission of the Technical University. Currently, our print collection stands at about twenty-seven thousand, five hundred (27,500) volumes. These collections are mostly in Applied Sciences, Engineering, Business Administration and Management Studies subject areas. Our collections also include students’ dissertations, bound volumes of newspapers and government publications; as well as bound volumes of HND exams past questions.
Cataloguing & Classification
The books once acquired are destined for the shelves after they have been catalogued and classified to
make retrieval easy and quick.
Book Lending
Students, faculty and staff who have been registered in the Library have the privilege of borrowing books
from the Library for their academic work. This is done under terms and conditions, captured under the
rules and regulations of the Library.
Information Literacy
The library also engages students on information literacy that is to have the ability to realize what information they need, how to create it, evaluate it and finally how to use the information to generate knowledge. Teaching students on Information Literacy (Ability to realize that information is needed, how to locate and evaluate the needed information and using the information to generate knowledge).
E-resources
Through the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Ghana (CARLIGH), we provide online
access to E-journals and scholarly publications to support the rich academic curriculum of the Technical
University.
Literature search
Inter-library Loan and Document Delivery
Through both formal and informal arrangements we reach out to other sister academic libraries in Ghana for answers to your information requests that cannot be provided by us immediately.
Location
The Library operates from two sites; namely
Opening Hours
SEMESTER HOURS
MONDAY – FRIDAY 9:00AM – 8:00PM
SATURDAY 9:00AM – 2:00PM
EXAMINATIONS
MONDAY – FRIDAY 8:00AM – 9:00PM
SATURDAY 9:00AM – 2:00PM
VACATION
MONDAY – FRIDAY 9:00AM – 430pm
The Library has rules and regulations to prevent damage to the Library premises and their contents and also to ensure the proper behaviour of Library users. The regulations also define how certain Library procedures, such as the loan of materials are to be carried out so that readers can be treated fairly and consistently. Some of the rules include: