Busoga University Library

MISSION
The mission of Busoga University library is to facilitate people of various categories, particularly but not exclusively those from Busoga University community to read and search for information.

VISION
It therefore has a vision of becoming a modern information centre that will provide reading facilities with resources, capacity and convenience that can match Busoga University and other local people’s learning and information needs.

LIBRARY SET UP
Busoga University library is set up in the following ways;

Main library, which has got collection of reading materials of all the courses offered in the university.

Law library
School of health sciences library
Mass communication library
Faculty of Education library

SATELLITE LIBRARIES
Busoga University library has got satellite libraries that are found at the various study centers and they are;

Jinja study centre library
Kamuli study centre library
Iganga Resource centre library
Kaliro study centre library
Pallisa study centre library
Bugiri study centre library

STAFFING
Busoga University library is headed by a University librarian, who is the overall supervisor of all the the library operations.

Below him are the following;

Sen.Ass.Librarian in charge of library machinery, like binding and photocopying machines
Princ.Ass.Librarian in charge of organization, development and management of the periodical section in the library.
Tech.Ass.Librarian in charge of creating, developing and maintaining the library data bases, Electronic resources and computers.
Ass.Librarian in charge of the Satellite libraries.
Below these are library assistants, who are in charge of the general duties of the library.

LIBRARY COLLECTION
Busoga University library has a total of 70,000 reading materials of which;

62,000 are text books
5,000 are periodicals
3,000 are electronic reading materials

And out of the 70,000 there are 50,000 titles.

SOURCES

Periodicals are obtained through subscribing to The Consortium of Uganda University Libraries (CUUL).
Donations for instance Beaverton Rotary International
Busoga University Diocese.

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
These are obtained from the;