The University Hall popularly known as the Katanga is the newest entrance into fortifying the technology bit of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science And Technology (KNUST).
This is because it is due to start running an electronic library in the Hall which will make it the first Hall to adapt that in the School.
The decision is to help students get ample time to study and reduce the pressure on the School’s main library.
The KNUST main library opens at eight in the morning and closes at ten in the evening. For Saturdays, it closes earlier than the ten o’clock and doesn’t open at all on Sundays.
The situation has as a result raised a lot of dissatisfaction among the entire student body especially those residing on campus.
Among other things, students also complain of lack of up-to-date books stocked in the library.
This move by Katanga adds up to the long yarn of thread being interwoven gradually into making the school a fully-fledged science and technology as the name implies.
The gradual technology wave started with the change into the biometric registration process which was followed by the online registration of hall of residence.
This year, the leadership of the School plans to ensure all student elections go electronic.
A feat which would further strengthen the School’s bid to keep track of the technological world.
The move by the leadership of the University Hall is to supplement the main library plus offer its affiliates unlimited accessibility to a library.
‘Katanga’, though notable for their aggressive and ‘no-nonsense’ posture to addressing issues on campus was once a hub of producing some fine brilliant students (fellows) for KNUST and Ghana.
President of the Hall, Mandela Bright Quarshie believes the library when finished will restore that glory.
Master bright Quarshie was speaking on the Leadership Corner, a programme by FOCUS FM.
Many have applauded the initiative saying that it has been long overdue since the school boasts of being a science and technology school but shows little of that.
