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Lamu Fort Library
Lamu Fort Library is a branch of the National Museums of Kenya. The Library was initiated in 1978 as a reference library for museum's staff and researchers. In 1986, it was relocated to a more spacious room at the Lamu Fort Museum.
The library is a department of Lamu Fort Museum. It is the only public library in Lamu. Under British colonial rule, the fort was a prison, which it remained until 1984. In 1985, it was given to the National Museums of Kenya who converted the fort into a museum with assistance from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (S.I.D.A). In 1986 the library was officially reopened at the fort museum by Mr. K. Nordenskiöld, a former director of S.I.D.A on Tuesday 22 April 1986.[citation needed]
The library uses the Dewey Decimal Classification system to classify its collection. Lamu Fort Library still uses a Browne Charging system to lend books. The library has about 10,000 items classified under Dewey Decimal Classification System. The catalogue uses the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules.
Siyu Fort Library was started in 2020 with the assistance of the Lamu Fort Librarian, Khadija Twahir. The Library collection consists of donations from the Lamu Fort Library, the British Council, Macmillan, the National Museum of Kenya Resources Center and individual donors. The Fort is Located between Siyu Primary School and a hospital. The library collection is classified using the Dewey Decimal Classification and catalogued using Anglo American Cataloguing rules.
The research section holds theses, projects, historical books, periodicals, bibliographies, and dissertations. The collection covers Lamu history, archaeology, anthropology and poetry. It includes many rare publications of popular Swahili writers such as: Professor Sheikh Nabhany, Lamu Conservation books by Usam Ghaidan, and Quest for the past : An historical guide to the Lamu Archipelago by Chrysee MacCasler Perry Martin and Esmond Bradley Martine,[citation needed] Francesco Siravo and Ann Pulver, new research collections "in this fragile World" a book edited by Clarissa Vierke and Annachiara Raia and many more.
The library holds a large and diverse range of archival materials such as old photographs from Lamu, 19th and 20th century manuscripts, old newspapers, magazines and periodicals, as well as old currencies, and files.
Part of the archive has been digitised. The UMADA (Ustadh Mau Digital Archive), supervised by the African Studies Centre Leiden, project digitized roughly two thousand manuscripts and audio cassettes from Lamu poet and imam Mahmoud Ahmed Abdulkadir, known locally as Ustadh Mau.[citation needed] The digitization was funded by UCLA’s Modern Endangered Archives Program. The digitized poems and sermons can be freely accessed via the UCLA Library Digital Collections.
From 2021 onward, the MprinT project, managed by Professor Anne Katrine Bang from Bergen University, Norway, has digitsed various Islamic manuscripts in the Lamu Archipelago.
Lamu Fort Library
Lamu Fort Library is a branch of the National Museums of Kenya. The Library was initiated in 1978 as a reference library for museum's staff and researchers. In 1986, it was relocated to a more spacious room at the Lamu Fort Museum.
The library is a department of Lamu Fort Museum. It is the only public library in Lamu. Under British colonial rule, the fort was a prison, which it remained until 1984. In 1985, it was given to the National Museums of Kenya who converted the fort into a museum with assistance from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (S.I.D.A). In 1986 the library was officially reopened at the fort museum by Mr. K. Nordenskiöld, a former director of S.I.D.A on Tuesday 22 April 1986.[citation needed]
The library uses the Dewey Decimal Classification system to classify its collection. Lamu Fort Library still uses a Browne Charging system to lend books. The library has about 10,000 items classified under Dewey Decimal Classification System. The catalogue uses the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules.
Siyu Fort Library was started in 2020 with the assistance of the Lamu Fort Librarian, Khadija Twahir. The Library collection consists of donations from the Lamu Fort Library, the British Council, Macmillan, the National Museum of Kenya Resources Center and individual donors. The Fort is Located between Siyu Primary School and a hospital. The library collection is classified using the Dewey Decimal Classification and catalogued using Anglo American Cataloguing rules.
The research section holds theses, projects, historical books, periodicals, bibliographies, and dissertations. The collection covers Lamu history, archaeology, anthropology and poetry. It includes many rare publications of popular Swahili writers such as: Professor Sheikh Nabhany, Lamu Conservation books by Usam Ghaidan, and Quest for the past : An historical guide to the Lamu Archipelago by Chrysee MacCasler Perry Martin and Esmond Bradley Martine,[citation needed] Francesco Siravo and Ann Pulver, new research collections "in this fragile World" a book edited by Clarissa Vierke and Annachiara Raia and many more.
The library holds a large and diverse range of archival materials such as old photographs from Lamu, 19th and 20th century manuscripts, old newspapers, magazines and periodicals, as well as old currencies, and files.
Part of the archive has been digitised. The UMADA (Ustadh Mau Digital Archive), supervised by the African Studies Centre Leiden, project digitized roughly two thousand manuscripts and audio cassettes from Lamu poet and imam Mahmoud Ahmed Abdulkadir, known locally as Ustadh Mau.[citation needed] The digitization was funded by UCLA’s Modern Endangered Archives Program. The digitized poems and sermons can be freely accessed via the UCLA Library Digital Collections.
From 2021 onward, the MprinT project, managed by Professor Anne Katrine Bang from Bergen University, Norway, has digitsed various Islamic manuscripts in the Lamu Archipelago.
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