Library

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Mary Immaculate Library (Main Library)

It is located in the basement of Imani building. It contains a collection of books, voluminous reference books, and other reference print resources.

Nuru Library

It is in located in Nuru building. It contains a collection of periodicals, journals, and audio-visual materials.

MIAS Library

This is a library with a specialized Africana collection under a closed access library system under the Maryknoll Institute of African Studies.

NB: Admission to the Library will be permitted only upon presentation of a valid Student or Staff Identity card.

Library Membership
Membership is open to all registered students, members of the faculty and staff of Tangaza University College. Amani Counselling Centre, Embulbul Counselling Centre, and KRIC consortium libraries may also use the libraries and borrow according to their own arrangements. Alumni and visitors (including academic staff and research students from other institutions) may use the library upon the payment of Ksh. 2000. However, they are not allowed to borrow.

In-house rules

1. Wear your lanyard with your ID at all times.
2. Leave all bags (including laptop bags), and bulky overcoats or jackets at the security counter.
3. Library security and staff are entitled to search any person entering or leaving any Tangaza library.
4. Food and drinks (including water) are not allowed in the library.
5. Silence is a must in all libraries at all times in order to be able to concentrate and research in peace.  Therefore conversations and mobiles are not appropriate.  Switch off your mobile phone before entering a Tangaza library. Answering your mobile in the library will incur a ban of ONE MONTH (even at exam time….).  Please let us have a real working atmosphere in the libraries. We all know that some calls are urgent/important.  But this is not an excuse for answering your mobile in the Library….  Choose somewhere else to wait.
6. Personal laptopsmay be used in the libraries – however the college management is not responsible for damage or loss of any laptop or other personal item.  Please take care of your belongings.
7. If you lose or damage a library item, a new copymust be bought at your own expense, either by yourself, or through the college (a substantial down payment will be requested to cover the cost, together with postage and administration fees – any surplus will be refunded when the item arrives).
8. Library users caught stealing or damaging Tangaza College books or other property will be reported to the Tangaza College Disciplinary Committee.
9. Photocopying Copyright rules apply: do not photocopy more than a small section of a book.
10. Access to the Library, Admission to the Library will be permitted only upon presentation of a valid Student or Staff Identity card.

 

Library resources rules

Users may download, save, or print reasonable portions of text, search results, and other information from the library’s online resources for studying, teaching, and/or research purposes.

1. DO NOT share your library login and passwords to online resources with unauthorized users or any other person.
2. DO NOT use robots, spiders, or other automated programmes to download electronic resources;
3. DO NOT use online resources for commercial purposes;
4. DO NOT sell text, search results, or other information in any form or medium;
5. DO NOT post information retrieved or downloaded from online resources to a website, or to an email list.
6. DO NOT redistribute information from online resources to unauthorized users.
7. Accounts are assigned to individuals. Users are solely responsible for all functions performed from the accounts assigned to them. Do not allow others to use your account. Users should not attempt to crack, guess and/or capture another person’s computer password.

Acquisition Policy
The library’s collection is aimed at supporting the College’s instructional programs. To that end, the library will acquire materials according to the following priorities;
To support the curriculum and provide materials relevant to the courses offered by the colleges
To support faculty and institutional research

Support for in-depth faculty and institutional research may not always be possible through material acquisition. Consequently, the library has an interlibrary program.

Collection Development Policy
Collection development refers to the process of building and maintaining the library’s collection. The collection development policy establishes the principles used by Tangaza University Library in the selection, acquisition, evaluation, and maintenance of information resources in print and non-print formats.

The primary goal of Tangaza University Library’s collection development efforts is to build a collection that supports the needs of all users. The library also recognizes its responsibility to respond to the research needs of the faculty and provide access to specialized information sources. Therefore, the library participates in and encourages resource sharing agreements with other libraries.

Circulation Policy
Circulation policies and regulations of Tangaza University Library exist to facilitate user’s access to the materials and information in the library’s collection while protecting the same collection.

To check your work for plagiarism, write an email to antiplagiarism@tangaza.ac.ke and wait for feedback on your assignment within 1 business day depending on the volume of submissions