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About Kiriri Women’s University of Science and Technology Library
KWUST Library is a modern working university library, providing a full range of high quality services based on both print and electronic media to university students, faculty staff and external readers from other universities in Kenya. It operates within the vision of making “KWUST the premier institution of academic excellence with a global perspective in the world.”
Library holdings consist of books (circulation and reference), periodicals, newspapers, indexing and abstracting journals, audio-visual materials, research papers and pamphlets. Formal inter-library loan agreement with major libraries is currently being sought.
Library Vision of Kiriri Women’s University of Science and Technology Library
To provide exceptional services to the needs of Kiriri Women’s University of Science and Technology scholarly community by building and maintaining a reliable collection in electronic format in order to support the university programmes. The library is developing user instruction and aims to provide adequate and appropriate physical and technological facilities to enable maximum utilisation of information resources.
KWUST library will be a model for client-centred service excellence, providing information resources that enhance learning and teaching in an environment, both physical and virtual, that is inviting and user-friendly. The library will hold itself to high standards of expertise, performance and contribution to the larger effort, in an organisation that will enable and reward achievement of these high standards.
Library Tour at Kiriri Women’s University of Science and Technology Library
Our library services include Issue Desk, Short Loan, Course Text collection, Information Desk. General Circulation Books (A-Z), Course Texts and Reference Books are housed here. This floor also provides office accommodation for the Senior Librarian. The technical room is also located here where the processing and photocopying of materials is done.
Opening Hours
Semester Session
Vacation
Day
Time
Day
Time
Monday-Friday
7.00 am-7.00 pm
Monday-Friday
7.00 am- 7.00 pm
Saturday
7.00 am-7.00 pm
Saturday
7.00am-7.00 pm
Sunday
Closed
Sunday
Closed
Public Holidays
Closed
Public Holidays
Closed
Library Books
Library Collections
Books and other library materials are located in different collections. Items within these collections are organised and shelved according to the Library of Congress Classification Scheme. The library, for various reasons, maintains open and closed collections.
Open Collections
Open Shelf collection: This is the main collection of books, which are distributed on the different levels of the library. Material from this collection may be borrowed for the normal loan period.
Reference Collection: Encyclopaedias, dictionaries, handbooks, and other reference books are available.
