The KIUT Library has the following sections, namely:

1. Reference and Circulation Desk; where all information related queries are solved. This is users’ starting point when in of any information resource service in the library.
2. Open Shelves; where most books are kept, access to the books not require use of a library card.
3. Reserved Books Section; where books on high demand, rare and in few copies than needed are kept, access to these resources requires a library card.
4. Law Books Section; where all books to do with law are kept, access to these resources requires a library card.
5. Medical/Health Sciences Section; where all books in those respective fields are kept, access to these resources requires a library card.
6. Electronic Resources (E-resource) Section; where all non-physical reading materials of the library are accessed from, access to these resources does not require a library card. E-resource is any information source that the library provides access to in an electronic format. E-books and journals are available in online catalogue and can only be accessed through the IP address of the University (network). Examples of e-resources are electronic journals (e-journal), electronic books (e-book) online databases in varied digital formats, Adobe Acrobat documents (pdf), WebPages (.htm, .html, .asp etc) and more. The library has purchased subscriptions to many electronic information resources in order to provide users with access to them free of charge.
7. Technical/Processing Section; where all non-physical materials acquired by the library are processed from. It is out of bounds to library non-staff and students.

KOHA Software

Kampala international University in Tanzania Library use Koha software to facilitate the management of the library resources and enable its users to access library resources easily. KOHA is an open source integrated library system (ILS) used World-Wide by public, schools and special libraries. Koha is the first free software library automation package in use World-wide; its development is steered by growing community of users collaborating to achieve their technology goals. Koha is featured set continues to evolve and expand to meet the users’ needs.

This software assists the users (students/staffs) to search materials (books, articles, journals) in the library as well as online sources. Users can conduct a simple search or an advanced search. Users can search online sources or physical sources by titles, author, organization, text search, and subject or even by year of publication. Search results for physical materials gives information on the title of the book, author, publication statement and the section of the library or where the item is located.

Apart from searching online sources and physical sources in the library, Koha helps to show the statistics of library users and the list of books in hold and those borrowed by library users. The software also assists the librarians in charging and discharging of library materials to customers.