This Unit is charged with the responsibility of identifying, collecting, acquiring, processing, preserving and providing access to cooperative archival materials for historic and academic purposes. It also is a preserver of rare and special collections as well as a contributor towards the achievement of the mission the university.
• To identify cooperative archival material and conserve them.
• To create accessions record for acquired cooperative archival materials.
• To inform users of the content of the cooperative archives.
• Records intellectuals’ content and enhance accessibility of cooperative archival material physical description.
• Guides descriptive repository and determine intellective arrangement and organization of cooperative archival materials
• Controlling and promoting use of archival materials through preservation, access control, display management and security of archival materials
• Conducting research on endangered archival materials
• Maintain statistics of archival materials use preserve material in deferent format for example electronic forms etc.
• Provide finding aid answering questions, policies procedures and information about the nature and existence of the cooperative archives documentation access and reference service
• Exhibitions or display of subject or items in the archives and other academic events
• Digitizing of cooperative archival materials