Wachemo University, Library Directorate

About the university and the library

Wachemo University is one of the third generation Ethiopian public universities. It was established in 2009 and inaugurated in 2012. It started its regular work in 2012 with 538students, 109 academic staffs and 112technical and administrative staffs. The number of faculties was 4 with 12 departments under the faculties.

Since the beginning, Wachemo University Library System (WULS hereafter) began its work in one building. Currently, our library has more than 113 total staff which is insignificant number regarding the existing number of students, more than 20,000 both regular and continuing education students.

Regarding the services our library provides, still our circulation service are manual, using user cards for both short and long term loans. On top of this, we started digital library with 100 internet connected computers in a single class. This service helps every student from every college to access soft copy materials and solve the scarcity of hard copy materials.

Besides, we tried to collect research products, journals and magazines in our reference, documentation and periodical department so as to provide researchers spring board materials. In its attempt to achieve the mission and objective of the university, WULS set out deliberately to conduct the following activities.

• Developing and managing collection
• Identifying and providing learning resources to teachers, researchers and students
• Managing available resources effectively and efficiently
• Establishing a conducive environment for study which accommodates multiple learning styles
• Training users and staffs to develop their information exploration skills for efficient and effective utilization of information resources
• Carrying out library development work in library and information professionalism with the aim of improving library’s multiple resources
• Maintaining effective links with other systems at domestic as well as international level.