Oyo Town, Oriire LGA, Oyo
ADEBAYO
Emmanuel
B.Ed, MLS
- Married
University Librarian of Redeemer’s University
Class Teacher, 1977-90; Librarian, Federal College of Education, Omoku, Rivers State, 1990-99; College Librarian, since 1999
Nigerian Library Association; Nigerian Association for Physical, Heath Education and Recreation
Co- Author Introduction to library studies; Odumat Publisher, Oyo, 1994; Rudiments of Library Studies Odumat Publisher 1995
watching soccer game, listening to music
P.O.Box 418 Oyo Town, Oyo State.
Dr. Adebayo’s career has witnessed quite a number of achievements and tremendous rapid upward growth due to God’s grace and the adventurous spirit which the almighty endowed him with. Within a period spanning about eight years (1991-1996) he occupied the position of head of almost all the operational areas of librarianship. He was head Cataloguing and Classification Unit, Reference Services, Acquisitions, Special Collection and Circulation units between 1991 and 1996. He was exposed to administration in the early period of his career, this made him to serve in more than sixty (60) committees in four tertiary institutions. He has also been involved in preparation of libraries budgets in all the libraries he had worked, since 1991to date.
In addition to this are the numerous innovations which he introduced in all the places he had served. Record has it that he prepared the Architect Brief for the construction of a 1000-seating capacity library at the FCE (T), Omoku. The FUTA Library under his headship as University Librarian also received the award for the best University Department in 2007, just a year after assuming duties there and 25 years after FUTA was established.
In the area of scholarship, Dr. Adebayo is an academic to the core with more than sixty (60) publications to his credit. These are in reputable local and international journals, chapters in books published by reputable publishers and participated in forty three conferences where he presented more than twenty papers both in Nigeria, East Africa and in Europe.
On service to the Community and the Nation, Dr. Adebayo has served on various panels which include among others:
Appointment of Deputy University Librarians in many Universities
Appointment of College Librarians in three Colleges of Education
Appointment of Polytechnic Librarian in one Polytechnic
External Examiner to a Doctoral candidate in Library and Information Science in one University in an Asian country.
Member, Library Sub Committee for the establishment of one University
Member Editorial Board of three academic journals in Library Science and
Fellow of two professional bodies
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