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THE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF KENYA LIBRARY

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Mission
"To promote intellectual growth and creativity by facilitating effective access to information in support of the technological training, research and learning needs of the Technical University of Kenya library community
Description
THE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF KENYA LIBRARY
MISSION
To produce reading materials particularly in accordance with the curriculum of the various disciplines to help the students to grasp knowledge for examination purposes besides their general mental development.
The library is The Technical University of Kenya central learning resource which aims to satisfy the information needs of all users.
The Technical University of Kenya library which is situated in a central position of the institution main campus was opened in 1980. It occupies an area of 1061m square and is made up of the basement, ground floor and first floor.
The library provides reading materials particularly in accordance with the curricula of the various disciplines to help students to grasp knowledge for examination purposes, besides their mental development.
The library is computerized and has an ILS - intergrated library system KOHA that is linked to the library website http://library.tukenya.ac.ke/which has a link to the institutional repository Dspace http://41.89.56.5:8282/jspui/ This has helped the library maintain a high level of efficiency in offering services scince services like charging and discharging books is achieved promptly.
KOHA enables tudents to view their library accounts remotely online, and be able to search the OPAC - Online Public Access Catalogue where they can see the status of a book they want if it is borrowed and when it is due date, renew books and make book reservation
The Institutional repository Dspace users can be able to get examinations past papers, business plans and research projects.
The library also introduced bindery services section where books and newspapers are bound at very reasonable prices.
GROWTH
When the library was opened in 1980 it was intended to accommodate two hundred and forty users (240) but currently it has squashed several chairs and tables to accommodate 425 users. This is still very inadequate for the student’s population. The number of users at the peak hours demonstrates convincingly that there is need for more space.
The library collection has also improved greatly, only that every year increasing numbers of books are published and the library has to spend a lot of money to purchase new titles on the diverse subject areas required by the students. The library collection is made up of about 40,000 text books other documents include periodicals, newspapers, government publications such as laws of Kenya, Kenya gazette, and development plans among others. The shelving capacity stand at above 50,000 books and serials the library has a user constituency of about 4000 users with 3000 borrowing books.
STAFF
There is a total of twenty-seven staff that is always on hand to help the users obtain full benefit from the collection. This they do by not only answering enquiries but also educating the students to make the best possible use of the bewildering range of resources. There is also inter-library borrowing services offered through special arrangement made inconjunction with local academic libraries.
The library is divided into two shifts, morning and evening shifts. One set of employees join the rest at 3:00pm. Up to 8:00pm.
FUTURE PROJECTS
The library hopes in the near future to experiment some expansion for additional space, this could be the expansion upwards by three floors as recommended by a contracted architecht to be able to accommodate about 2500 users.
The library also hopes to set up an ICT center.
The proposed project would enable the library to play a role of central and critical importance to the scholarly life of the college and secure the kind of reputation that will strengthen the Kenya polytechnic library’s role as preferred destination for many of the students, lecturers and researchers.

General Information
Library Services
- Book lending
- Book Reservation
- Book Renewal
- Orientation
- Circulation Services
- Reference Services
- Current Awareness Services
- Reprographic Services
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This is the Official Facebook Page for The Technical University of Kenya library. This page was purposely created with the aim of disseminating current information, and providing current awareness services (C.A.S) to library users, as well as used as a channel of feedback by users on our services. It is also a means of creating good relations with our our users.

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To promote intellectual growth and creativity by facilitating effective access to information in support of the technological training, research and learning needs of the Technical University of Kenya library community"

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