{"id":24,"date":"2019-05-05T10:13:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T10:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/196.43.169.12:85\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2019-05-23T12:35:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T12:35:01","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.lirauni.ac.ug\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element bs-vc-block\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p><strong>Welcome to Lira University Library and Information Services!<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Background<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Lira University Library and Information Services derives its mandate from the University and Other Tertiary Institutions Act 2001 (As amended) to develop, control, manage and provide access to all information services to the University community and other stakeholders.\u00a0 Lira University Library was born from the Gulu University Constituent College that started in 2010. Since July 2015 when Lira University was established by an act of parliament, the Library and Information Services\u00a0 has\u00a0 transformed itself into a modern academic Library.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Resources<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Lira University Library provides information resources in the following forms:<br \/>\n\u2022 Text Books.<br \/>\n\u2022 Reference Books.<br \/>\n\u2022 Periodicals including Newspapers.<br \/>\n\u2022 Special collection and Government Documents.<br \/>\n\u2022 Electronic resources.<br \/>\n\u2022 Virtual resources.<br \/>\n\u2022 Document delivery service.<br \/>\n\u2022 Open access resources.<br \/>\n\u2022 Internet access.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Services<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The library offers the following services:<br \/>\n\u2022 Lending and inquiry.<br \/>\n\u2022 Information and literacy training\/ User education.<br \/>\n\u2022 Photocopying.<br \/>\n\u2022 Binding.<br \/>\n\u2022 ICT.<br \/>\n\u2022 Electronic resources.<br \/>\n\u2022 Reference tools.<br \/>\n\u2022 Data analysis software.<br \/>\n\u2022 E-Learning support.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Membership<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Library admits the following type of members:<br \/>\n\u2022 Registered students.<br \/>\n\u2022 Staff and members of the university council.<br \/>\n\u2022 Students and researchers from other Universities.<br \/>\n\u2022 External users.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Lira University Library and Information Services! Background Lira University Library and Information Services derives its mandate from the University and Other Tertiary Institutions Act 2001 (As amended) to develop, control, manage and provide access to all information services to the University community and other stakeholders.\u00a0 Lira University Library was born from the Gulu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.lirauni.ac.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.lirauni.ac.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.lirauni.ac.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.lirauni.ac.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.lirauni.ac.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.lirauni.ac.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"https:\/\/library.lirauni.ac.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.lirauni.ac.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}