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Introduction
Tanzania Food and Nutrition Centre’s Library was established in
1982. The main objective was and still is to meet the information
requirements of the Centre and stakeholders at various levels. These
include researchers, planners, policy makers, extension workers,
trainers, students and the general public. The library holds a
special collection on food and nutrition and related fields such as
health, agriculture, community development, education, environment,
water and sanitation. The Library is accessible to all who need to
use it although lending is restricted to staff members.
Acquisition
Since its establishment, the library has been growing steadily with
respect to number of publications and type of services. Most of the
reader materials (in hard copies and electronic form) are acquired
through gifts and donations from individuals and institutions,
purchases and information/publication exchange with partners. In
addition the Centre generates many publications and reports which
are the result of research undertaken as part of the Centre’s
program activities conducted both inside and outside the country.
All of them are available through purchase or exchange with our
partners and the general public.
Services
The Library offers traditional services which include Reference and
Lending, Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI), Current
Awareness Service (CAS), photocopying and report binding.
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have very much
uplifted the library traditional services in terms of speed,
efficiency and reliability. ICT based services at the Centre include
Internet surfing, e-mail and the use of online and off-line
databases. The collection of CD-ROMS is also available for lending.
Publications
Dissemination of Food and Nutrition information through
publications, (books, reports, periodicals, thesis, dictionaries,
booklets, posters, brochures, fact-sheets, newspapers, etc.) CD-ROM,
video tapes and photographs remain one of the major activities of
the Library. This includes information sharing through exchange of
publications and book lists with staff and other institutions. Our
participation in book exhibitions, also gives us an opportunity to
see what other partners have for exchange and knowledge sharing. In
so doing the library collection is growing according to the Centre’s
requirements.
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