The challenges of selection and acquisition of grey literature in libraries – a comparative study of Federal University of Technology and Imo State University both of Owerri

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The challenges of selection and acquisition of grey literature in libraries – a comparative study of Federal University of Technology and Imo State University both of Owerri. Most librarians have been selecting and acquiring library materials, including unpublished works of literature without knowing the terms generally used for them. This research project, therefore, has been carried out to create awareness to some librarians and staff of the library on what we called“grey literature”. This term is not familiar to most librarians but this project will educate them on the term. The research work (project) is based on the polytechnics requirement of the award of Higher National Diploma (HND), it is therefore critically examined and carefully studied the above topic. This project covers all one needs to know about grey literature, its meaning, its characteristics, advantages and role, its types, its acquisition channels, its cataloging procedure, and challenges encountered in its acquisition. Librarianship students will also find this work very useful because it will help to widen their knowledge horizon in using library terms.