Dr. Ruth Nalumaga

Purpose

Responsible for the development, control, management, and coordination of all library and information services at the University.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop and implement annual activity plans and budgets as well as monitor and review performance against set targets and objectives.
• Oversee the maintenance of information resources through an effective cataloguing and classification system.
• Coordinate the development of well-stocked and continually updated libraries in order to facilitate proper functioning of the University.
• Monitor and review the performance of the libraries and make recommendations that will ensure the achievement of goals and objectives, particularly regarding maintaining international academic and professional standards.
• Coordinate the acquisition and proper maintenance of books, serial publications, documents, audio-visual materials, electronic resources, computer discs as well as other academic publications, equipment and information technology for all the libraries in the University.
• Receive complimentary copies of books, publications and new acquisitions and pass them on to the relevant departments for distributing to specified lecturers.
• Coordinate annual stocktaking exercise in order to conduct proper audit and accountability of all acquisitions in the library.
• Assess training needs, develop and implement on-the- job training programmes aimed at equipping library staff and users with the necessary knowledge, skills, attitudes and
  behaviors.
• Work closely with the donor organizations and strategic partners to ensure continuing support in the acquisition of information resources as well as the development of library
  facilities.
• Develop and implement an effective knowledge organization system in order to ensure rapid access and retrieval of information.
• Supervise and evaluate the performance of library staff against set targets and take corrective action whenever performance improvement is required.