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St. John’s University of Tanzania library has been in practice since 2007. It is one of the major components of the University’s quest to becoming a Centre of excellence in teaching and learning. It is a designated university organ which houses physical and digital contents for academic and administrative purposes for which various university stakeholders can benefits together with an adequate reading area that is environmentally conducive for serious studies. The library collection covers major disciplines of Education; Pharmacy; Nursing; Business Administration; Natural and Applied Sciences; and Theology; Medical Laboratory Technology and Community Development.
The current sitting capacity of the Library is 400 users at a time and the size of the collection is about 60000 volumes. Students are encouraged to visit and use the Library as much as they can and they should see the Library as an important tool to bridge the gap between the lecture notes provided by lecturers and information resources contained in it.
 
USING THE LIBRARY
Library Opening Hours

• Monday – Friday: 08:30 -18:30  and  19:30 - 22:00

• Tuesday: 10:00 - 11:00 Community Chapel

• Friday: 12:00 - 14:00 Friday prayer

• Saturday: 09:00- 14:00

• Sunday and  Holidays: Closed

• Vacation: Monday- Friday 02:30-16:00 and Saturday Closed

 
LIBRARY SERVICES 
The library offers different services to internal and external users. These services includes
 
REFERENCE SERVICES 
Readers are provided services per their request. It is considered as a person to person service as users have different reference queries that a librarian should solve. The reference librarian interviews the reader to enable him/her to articulate the users query clearly.
 
CIRCULATION SERVICES
The library staff ensures library users get services they need i.e. borrowing, renewing and returning of library resources in time.
 
E-LIBRARY
This service allows users to access published information via internet. Our E-Library has 23 computers all connected to the internet for use.
NEWSPAPER FACILITY 
The library purchases local Tanzanian daily and weekly newspapers for readers. These includes The Guardian, Daily News, Sunday News and Mwananchi.
 
WIRELESS (Wi-Fi) SERVICES
Users are provided with password to access internet.
CAS- Current Awareness Service: 
All newly acquired materials or publications are displayed for users to see and view.
 
LIBRARY COLLECTIONS
Lending collection
It is a collection where library users can access information on the shelves without supervision of library staff. In this collection, books stored in the library’s open shelves for lending. The period for which books are lent out varies between students and members of staff
 
Special reserve collection 
This section was established to ensure that text books in high demand are restricted for use in the Library only. Users are allowed to borrow books from this collection for internal reading only. No material is allowed to be taken out of the library.
 
Reference collection
Books in this section are for use in the library only. It covers information to be consulted rather than reading cover to cover, this includes encyclopedia, Dictionaries, Atlases etc. The library offers recreational (i.e. Novels, Plays, Poetry etc.) materials as part of lending collection.
 
QUICK SEARCH
E-resources, Research 4life
HINARI –Access to Research in Health Programme 
The program was launched in 2002 by World Health Organization. The main purpose was, and still is, to enable developing countries to access collections of Biomedical and Health literature including E-journals and E-books.
 
AGORA -Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture 
It was launched in 2003 by the FAO (Food Agriculture Organization) in partnership with Cornell University. The provision of free or low cost access has led in development in agriculture and related biological, environmental and social science.
 
OARE -Online Access to Research in Environment
It was launched in 2006, to provide developing countries with free or low cost access per reviewed journals and books based on the environment.
 
ARDI -Access to Research for Development and Innovation
This programme was launched in 2009 to provide free online access to major scientific and technical journal to local institutions in developing countries across the world in order to encourage innovations and assist them in bridging the knowledge gap.
 
GOALI -Global Online Access to Legal Information
The programme was launched in Geneva in 2018 led by ILO and other major Universities in order to provide free or low cost online access to Legal research and training tools including academic legal journals, publications and data bases. 
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Prof MsanjilaProf. Yohana Msanjila
Vice Chancellor

Prof Simalenga
Prof. Timothy Simalenga
Deputy Vice Chancellor Academic

Prof.Rubagumya
Prof. Casmir Rubagumya
Deputy Vice Chancellor - PFA

Rev.Madinda
Rev.Canon Emmanuel Madinda
University Chaplain

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