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Vision of the Library
To provide information resources in support of the teaching, research and community endeavors of Strathmore University.
Missions of the Library
The Univerity Library will strive to collect information resources and services and make them readily accessible, so as to encourage learning, research and improvement throughout life, while spreading a culture of solidarity which will uphold the dignity of the human person and family values, and assist in preparing students to become competent professionals who can enrich society with their knowledge, initiative and personal responsibility.
Objectives of the Library
- Selecting and acquiring up-to-date information resources in all formats that are relevant to the Information needs of the university.
- Organising the collection using internationally accepted standards to allow for easy retrieval.
- Adopting information dissemination strategies- Current Awareness services and selective dissemination of information to ensure optimum utilization of available resources.
- Establishing, promoting and maintaining a wide range of services that will support the academic programmes of the university and encourage optimum exploitation of the resources of the library.
- Building the information literacy skills of its users continuously- by conducting proper user education and instruction through a variety of methods in order to provide guidance to the library’s collection.
- Recruiting, developing and retaining well qualified, experienced and dedicated professional library staff in the area of library and information sciences who will offer high quality services to the users of the library.
- Adopting technologies that will make information resources accessible to the university community in an efficient and effective manner.
- Formulating sound library policies that will act as a guide to achievement of the library’s mission/ vision
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