
This is a complete apparatus intended to help strict schooling and staff research. In 2003 the library profited by a membership paid by Asbury Theological Seminary to utilize the ATLA (American Theological Library Association) Database on CD Rom.

There is a book index, which contains the undertakings (undergrad and graduate) presented by understudies of the theological college and a few individuals from staff who concentrated in different foundations.

The card list is partitioned, "a record of creators and titles kept in a solitary sequential request and a document of subject cards in sequential order request" (Newhall 1970, 38) and the documenting framework is letter by letter, a framework wherein "passages are documented without thinking about the spaces between words" (Nwosu 2000, 61). This library utilizes the second version of the Anglo American Cataloging Rules (AACR2) and the 20th release of Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC 20). It is an axiom that "the library is the operational hub of instructive foundations" (Olanlokun and Salisu 1993, vii) and West Africa Theological Seminary Library is no exemption. In choosing programming, the theological school should think regarding systems administration and remember that mechanization programs ordinarily need yearly help charges. A vital perspective is to recognize programming that will actually want to address the issues of the theological school. One of the prompt plans of the theological school is to computerize its library assortment. The theological school began distributing the West Africa Theological Seminary Journal in 2002. in Biblical Studies, Master of Divinity, M.A. The organization is associated to the University of Nsukka, Nigeria and by and by offers a few projects of study including : Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies, Bachelor of Arts in Theology, Diploma in Theology, Certificate in Computer Studies, Diploma in Computer Studies, M.A. The name of the theological school was changed from Wesley International Theological Seminary to West Africa Theological Seminary on 1 June 2001, the very year it moved to 35/37 MM International Airport Road, Lagos, Nigeria. During an as of late finished semester, WATS has understudies from thirty of Nigeria's states, from more than forty language gatherings, from (a few) other African nations, and from well more than eighty diverse church gatherings (West Africa Theological Seminary Prospectus 2004, 5). By and by, the theological school is the biggest non-denominational fervent sacredness theological college in Nigeria that has pulled in understudies from a wide range of Nigerian Christian categories, (and) ethnic gatherings. The foundation of the theological school in 1989 was a functional show of the need to effectively partake in the preparation of ministers, evangelists, preachers and instructors in Nigeria as well as in different pieces of the mainland and the west. (The Maxeys had at first worked respectably in strict training in Port Harcourt for a very long time). Gary Maxey) who drove a gathering of Nigerian and exile Christians to Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria in April 1989. The historical backdrop of the above theological college could be sensibly followed to the notable appearance by two American evangelists (Rev.


BRIEF HISTORY OF WEST AFRICA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
