Department of Readers Service

"Supporting Readers, Enhancing Access"
Erasto G. Luvanda

Erasto G. Luvanda

Assistant Librarian

Head of Department(HoD)


I sincerely feel greatly honoured to welcome you all to the Department of Readers Service (RS) of the Moshi Co-operative University (MoCU). The department is among the two departments under the Directorate of Library Services (DLS). Since its establishment, the department has been responsible for library collection management and development, circulation, and administration of services and materials. The department has highly qualified librarians who are experts in various areas of library and information science and offer information services to the university community. Currently, the department provides information and reference services, managing the issuance, renewal, and return of library materials, answering user queries and providing ready reference service, conducting library orientation programs for new users, organising workshops or exhibitions on the use of libraries, registering new library members, shelving, shelf-reading, and sorting of library materials, advice and support on research projects and literature reviews, evaluating and assessing library collection, ensuring daily statistics are compiled, conducting library stocktaking, and notifying library users of new arrivals of library materials.

Overview of the Department

This department is a major interface of the library collection and services to the users. The department is responsible for library collection management and development, circulation, bindery, and administration of services and materials.

Functions

Lending services for library items

Renewal of materials and issuing of fines to the defaulters

Coordination of the library services

Processing of the reservation requests in response to readers’ requests

Register new library members

Shelving, shelf-reading and sorting of library materials

Providing reference services

Conducting library orientation and guidance programme on the use of information resources

Marketing of information resources and services offered by the library

Developing and coordinating various information skills programmes

Advice and support on research projects and literature reviews

Evaluating and assessing library collection

Ensuring daily statistics are compiled

Conducting annual library stocktaking

Notify library users of new arrivals of library materials

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