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.
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