WELCOME TO KeMU LIBRARY

Why We Exist

The Library core aspiration is capture in our mission statement which is “To Provide Quality Solutions to Our Academic and Societal Clientele”

LIBRARY SECTIONS  

The KeMU library department is organized into the following departments, namely:

Collection Development Section

The department is tasked with the acquisitions and processing of print and non-print information materials. The recommendation of materials for acquisition is done through proposals by the faculty members, the students and library staff.

The department will always appreciate proposal from the clients on the materials they would like to be acquired. Such recommendation can be forwarded to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

The Digital Library

 The department has two sub-sections namely:

1.       The Electronics Services

2.       The Audiovisuals Section

The department is tasked with the provision of information materials and services that are in non-paper format, namely:

1.       Online Journals (link to online journal Resources) –

Resources that Kenya Methodist University has registered for: 

·         Acoustical Society of America

·         American Institute of Physics

·         American Physical Society

·         Annual Reviews

·         Beech Tree Publishing

·         British Psychological Society (BPS)

·         Cambridge University Press - Cambridge Journals Online

·         EBSCO Host

·         Emerald Publishing Group Limited

·         Gale (Thomson Learning) - Academic ASAP and Health & Wellness Resource Center

·         Geological Society

·         IOP Publishing

·         Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

·         JSTOR

·         Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers

·         NPG (Nature and Palgrave Macmillan Journals) (as subscribed)

·         Nature Publishing Group

·         OSA - Optical Society of America

·         Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - Source OECD

·         Oxford University Press - ebooks (as subscribed)

·         Project MUSE

·         Royal College of Physicians

·         Royal Society - Royal Society Journals Online

·         Royal Society for Chemistry - RSC Journals Online

·         Springer

·         Symposium Journals

·             University of California Press - Caliber

·         University of Chicago Press

·         Wiley-Blackwell - former Interscience content

·         Wiley-Blackwell - former Synergy content

·         World Bank Africa Development Indicators

·         World Bank Global Economic Monitor

·         World Bank Online Resources (as subscribed)

2.       Electronic Books:

KeMU has subscribed to Electronic Books (e-books) in order to boost and diversify information services to its clients (Staff and Students). To obtain your login credentials (User Name  &  Password), send your Name and Registration Number ( i.e. for Students) or your Personal File Number (PF) and Name (i.e. for Staff Members) to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

3.       The Web OPAC

The Web OPAC is a tool that user can employ is accessing and browsing the library collection (catalogue).  Using this facility, users can access, query and navigate through the library catalogue to check on materials available, the loan status of material, hold or reserve materials.

Users can also search and download past examination papers.

4.       Convectional Web Search and Internet Browsing

The digital library also offer our clients access terminals  for internet browsing.

5.       E-mail Accounts Management

6.       ICT Training and Hands-On Assistance to Users

The digital library also endeavors to strengthen the users skills to enable them exploit to the maximum the electronic information resources available. To this end, the department offers hands on training and occasionally organizes workshops and seminars to equip the users on search, access, retrieval and dissemination of electronic information resources.

(An ICT-PERI Training Workshop)

c) The Periodicals and special collection Section

This section provides the users with access to serial publications such as the paper journals, newspaper, magazines and Government Publications

 d) The User Services Section

This section deals with the circulation of information materials which includes borrowing, reserving, holding, receiving and discharging of information resources, referral services.

The overall role of the department is to make sure that the information resources are fairly available to users. The department also ensures that the clients are made aware of available information materials and services through a Current Awareness Services.