a. Bibliographic Services
Bibliographic services provide users with access to comprehensive databases, catalogs, and indexes of published materials, including books, journals, articles, and other scholarly publications. By using bibliographic services, users can save time and effort in their research, access a wide range of information, and manage their citations and bibliographies efficiently.
b. Circulation Services
The circulation function in the library involves every use of library material and the successful performance of these functions is a measure of effectiveness of all other duties. The circulation involves lending, renewal, maintenance of books, maintenance of statistics and survey of user’s needs.
c. Current Awareness Services
It is a service that provides up-to-date information on a specific topic or field. It is designed to keep individuals, researchers, and professionals informed of the latest developments, trends, and news in their areas of interest. The library bulletin contains news about details of new services, list of new acquisitions and other items likely of interest to library costumers.
d. Library Orientation/ Instruction
An orientation on the proper use of the library facilities, different library services and library resources is given at the beginning of the school year to all students. The library policies are given and explained.
e. Reference and Information Service
The librarian answers questions of users and provide clientele the needed materials. The task ranges from finding the answers particular questions, or even performing extensive searches to maintaining a good reference collection, and assisting clients to find information themselves.
f. Referral Letters
Referral service is given to a library clientele when directed to an agency or expert outside the library wherefrom the information may be obtained. If library materials are not available in UB libraries, the researcher is referred to other libraries. UB students/ Faculty/ Employees are furnished with a request letter prepared by the college librarian addressed to the librarian of the institution where the researcher wishes to visit.
UB Libraries reciprocate this service by allowing qualified researchers from other institutions to use UB library resources.
g. Wi - Fi Access
Free wireless Internet access is available on all floors of the library. Just connect to the network UBBC Wi-Fi. The network is encrypted and password is required.