PERIODICALS DEPARTMENTS
Library

Vision
The periodicals department of Kenya Methodist is established to provide the users with primary sources of information in order to facilitate teaching and research.


Mission
The Periodicals department strives to fulfill the mission of educating the KEMU community through selection, organization and providing access of current periodicals and journals.


Objectives
1. Develop policy for periodicals department to act a guide on selection and acquisition.
2. The next primary objective of the periodicals department is providing primary sources of information for its users such as journals, local and foreign magazines, news papers and periodicals.
3. Another objective is maintaining the library's active subscriptions through selection of appropriate and relevant journals/periodicals.
4. To make the library's periodicals available for use by KEMU faculty, staff and students through loaning services of journals and periodicals.
5. To facilitate use of the library's periodicals by maintaining good order and convenient arrangement in the periodicals collections.
6. To preserve all periodicals, both active and inactive, for the periods determined by the library policy.

Services at periodicals department

The following are the services provided at KEMU library Periodicals Section they include:
1. Browse current & bound periodicals.
2. Borrow & return periodicals.
3. Getting help on locating a periodical in the Library.
Types of Materials

There are several different types of materials in the Periodicals Department.

1. Newspapers- The library subscribes to a number of daily news papers. They include: The Daily Nation, The Standard, Taifa Leo, The Daily Monitor, Kenya Times and People.

2. Journals – The department subscribes for scholarly journals, substantive news or general interest journals, popular journals and sensational journals.


Borrowing of materials
Academic staff and research staff/students may be allowed to borrow a journal for a period of two hours at the discretion of the periodicals department. The students are required to submit their short loan card or student ID, while staff are required to submit their library card.
Arrangement of Journals & Magazines
Journals and Magazines are arranged alphabetically alphabetically in the pamphlet boxes.


Formats of materials
All the journals and periodicals at KEMU library are in paper format.
 

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