Veritas University, Abuja (The Catholic University of Nigeria)

VUNALIBBUL Vol. I, No.4

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We welcome new and existing readers to this issue of VUNALIBBUL. The aim of this Bulletin has been to keep the Veritas University Community more widely interested in the knowledge and information resources managed by the University Library.

Editorial

AN IMPORTANT MOMENT

This is an important moment in the relationship between researchers and academic libraries the world over. The world of information and librarianship is changing and a foundation for a new relationship between University Libraries and researchers is being forged.

Indeed, the rise of e-research, interdisciplinary work, cross-institution collaborated and the massive increase in the quantity of research output in digital form all pose new challenges. This challenges is not just about how libraries should serve the needs of researchers as users of information sources of many different kinds, but it also about how to facilitate seamless access, search and discovery of a wide range of information sources that researchers need to pursue their research; that students need to widen their knowledge base for life long learning.

In doing this, Academic Librarians are being turned into what is being described as “Cyberians” working with tools that utilizes artificial intelligence to disseminate knowledge records (multitasking) to assist researchers in creating individualized information portfolio.

However, the creation of an individualized information file is only possible when there is effective collaboration between researchers and the University library; research needs must be known to the library before the library can strive to secure needed sources within available resources. This was the rationale for the recent Book Selection meeting convened by the Veritas University Librarian with Academic staff, where a decision to collaborate and build a library collection that will stand the test of time, was taken.

Ask, and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened to you

HOMILY OF THE WEEK

ROOT YOURSELF IN CHRIST

Act 9:26 – 31, 1John 3:18-24, John 15:1-8

Many of us are familiar with the sad American Indian story about a young man who found an eagle's egg and put it into nest of a prairie chicken. The eaglet hatched with the chickens and grew up with them. All its life, the misplaced eagle though it was a prairie chicken and did only what the prairie chickens did. In its old age, the unfortunate eagle saw a magnificent bird high above in the cloudless sky, soaring gracefully in its strong golden wings. “What a beautiful bird!” said the unfortunate eagle to its neighbour. “That an eagle, the chief of birds,” the neighbour replied, “But don't give it a second thought. You could never be like him.” so the poor eagle never gave a second thought and died thinking it was a prairie chicken.
This frightening story underlies the importance of what we identify ourselves with. Human beings are like vine branches; we need a vine in which to graft and root ourselves. The vine into which we are grafted and rooted conditions the way we see ourselves, the expectations we have of ourselves and the ceiling of achievement that we place ourselves. Vines comes in many shapes and colours each soliciting our primary allegiance, but the gospel invites us today to graft and root ourselves as vine branches into the true vine, Jesus Christ.

Then and only then shall we see ourselves in terms of our oneness with Christ just as the vine branch and the vine are one and be able to bear good fruit, the same type of fruit that Jesus himself bears. Culled from http://www.munachi.com

SAINT OF THE WEEK   

Saint Joan of Arc

Joan was born in France in 1412. she helped her brothers on the farm and often went to a nearby chapel to pray. When she was seventeen, Joan heard the voice of God calling her to drive the enemies of France from the land. Going to the king whose army was defeated, she asked for a small army. The king BELIVIEVING that God had sent her to save France, gave her a band of brave soldiers. Joan went before the soldiers carrying her banner with the words. “Jesus, Mary.” The soldiers became filled with courage and drove the British army away.

Joan fell into the hands of the British and remained in prison for nine months. She was asked why she had gone for confession every day. She said: “My soul can never be made clean. I FIRMLY BELIEVE I SHALL SURELY BE SAVE.”

She was taken to the marketplace of Rouen and burned to death. With her eyes on the crucifix, she cried out, “Jesus, Jesus, “through the flames.
Culled from Book of Saints by Father Lovasik

QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn”. Albert Einstein.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm”. Sir Winston Churchill.

“We are what we repeatedly do”. Aristotle. Culled from http://www. Quotationpage.  com/32087.html

DID YOU KNOW

That shooting victim Connie Culp spend 22 hours in Surgery to become the first face transplant recipient.

George W. Bush Presidential Library raised $100 million in 100 days

400 million Africans live on less than $1 a day. Culled from www.time.com

BREAKING NEWS @ VUNA

The Niger Delta Development Commission on Wednesday, May 13, 2009 donated a Tractor to Veritas University. The donation is in response to the request of the Vice-Chancellor, Rev. Fr. (Prof.) Justin Ukpong.

BREAKTHROUGHS

Joel Nwakaire, a student of the Department of Agriculture and Bio-resource Engineering, University of Nigeria, Nsukka has produced what may be Nigeria's first bio-diesel   with non-consumable vegetables Jatrophan and Algae.

Eastman Kodak company has achieved another break through in its storied history of imaging technology with the introduction of the world's first 50 million pixel CCD Image sensor for professional photography. At 50 million pixels, or mega pixels, the sensor captures images with unprecedented resolution and detail.

BOOKS OF THE WEEK

Harris, D. (2004). Cases and Materials on International Law. - London; Thomson. lxi, 1152p; index

Cotton, F et al (2008). Advanced Inorganic Chemistry. - 6th ed. - Delhi; Wiley. 1355p, index.

Carrol, D (2004). Psychology of Language. - Belmont; Thomson, xvi, 460p, ill, index.

FINAL WORD

When a man takes one step towards God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.