FUNDRAISING AS A SOURCE OF FUNDING FOR PUBLIC UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES IN KENYA

Festus Kipkorir Ngetich; Daniel C. Rotich; Japheth Otike

doi:10.25159/0027-2639/832

Authors

Festus Kipkorir Ngetich University of Kabianga
Daniel C. Rotich Daniel Chebutuk Rotich Department of Publishing and Media Studies School of Information Sciences Moi University, Eldoret Kenya and Department of Information Science College of Human Sciences University of South Africa, Pretoria South Africa
Japheth Otike Moi University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25159/0027-2639/832

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to examine fundraising as a viable supplementary source of funding for public university libraries in Kenya. Ideally, university libraries require sufficient funding in order to effectively play their role which is to support teaching, learning and research activities in the university. However inadequate allocation of funding to public university libraries in Kenya over the years has negatively affected the quality of their services. Therefore there is an urgent need for these libraries to consider fundraising as a source of funding. Using a sample comprising of 84 Librarians and 18 informants from seven public universities in Kenya, this paper established that fundraising, if well planned and coordinated, is a viable supplementary source of funding for public university libraries in Kenya.Â

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Author Biographies

Festus Kipkorir Ngetich, University of Kabianga

Festus Kipkorir Ngetich is currently the Ag. Deputy University Librarian and In-Charge of the University Library at University of Kabianga, Kericho, Kenya. Prior to this, he served as a Senior Librarian at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Juja, Kenya; Library Manager at Kenya Institute of Management, Nairobi, Kenya and College Librarian at Kenya Highlands Bible College, Kericho, Kenya. He holds a Ph.D in Library and Information Sciences. His areas of research interest are fundraising for libraries, funding of libraries; provision of library and information services and management of libraries. He is also an OCLC/IFLA Fellow, Class of 2006.

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Daniel C. Rotich, Daniel Chebutuk Rotich Department of Publishing and Media Studies School of Information Sciences Moi University, Eldoret Kenya and Department of Information Science College of Human Sciences University of South Africa, Pretoria South Africa

Daniel Chebutuk Rotich is currently a Professor in the Department of Publishing and Media Studies, School of Information Sciences, Moi University. He is also affiliated to University of South Africa, College of Human Sciences, Department of Information Science as a Research Fellow. He holds a PhD in Information Management, M.Phil in Publishing Studies, and B.Sc in Information Sciences from Thames Valley University â€“ London (University of West London) (UK), University of Stirling, (UK) and Moi University (Kenya), respectively. He has over twenty years of teaching and research experience in higher education; he has previously served as Head of Department and Dean of School at Moi University among other positions of responsibility in the university.

He is a co-editor of Contemporary Publishing and Booktrade in Kenya and author of Development of Educational Publishing in Kenya: Implications of Market Liberalisation (Moi University Press). He has published extensively in peer-reviewed scholarly journals in the areas of scholarly publishing in Africa and Textbook publishing in Kenya and related areas. His areas of research include but not limited to scholarly publishing, global visibility of research, educational publishing, electronic publishing and information and knowledge management.

Japheth Otike, Moi University

Japhet Otike is a professor in the Department of Library and Information Studies, School of Information Sciences, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya. Until August 2014, he was dean, School of Information Sciences at Moi University. Prof. Otike has researched and published very extensively in the library and information field. Much of his work has appeared in internationally acclaimed journals. Â His areas of research interest are legal implications of copyright; marketing library and information services; and disaster management in libraries.

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