The Faculty of Education Library is a branch library of the University of Zimbabwe Library. It provides access to diverse information products and services that cater to the research needs of University of Zimbabwe staff and students. The library is located on the ground floor of the Faculty of Education building.
UZ Library e-Resources
The UZ Library provides a wide range of electronic resources which are accessible via the Library website: https://library.uz.ac.zw/
e-Books and e-Journals:
Students and researchers have access to multidisciplinary e-Book and e-Journal databases such as EBSCO EBooks, ARDI, JSTOR, Project Muse, Taylor and Francis Journals and Wiley. Patrons can access electronic resources both on campus and off campus. The Libraryalso offers training on how to access electronic resources. E-Resources are accessible through the following links:
Campus Access: https://library.uz.ac.zw/index.php/e-journals/
Off Campus Access: https://uz.remotexs.co/user/login
e-Thesis and Dissertations:
The Education Library houses the hard copies of thesis and dissertations by postgraduate. Soft copies accessible on the UZ Institutional Repository via https://ir.uz.ac.zw/
Print Information Resources
The Education Library houses an impressive collection of print resources that are pertinent to all spheres of the Education fraternity and practice. Users can search for the available resources on the Library Online Public Access Catalogue: http://uzlibsys.uz.ac.zw/
The information resources can be categorised as follows:
Open Shelf Books
Core textbook Collection
Reference Books
Visit to see the borrowing periods https://library.uz.ac.zw/index.php/10338-2/#1663752477320-f021d92d-8acd
The Library offers the following research support services to its patrons:
Training | Description |
Reference Management | The training covers the use of reference management tools which enable individual researchers or a group of researchers to manage references. Examples include Zotero and Mendeley, which incorporates a sharable reference manager as well as a social network. |
Literature discovery | The training equips staff and students with skills on how to conduct literature search and how to develop effective search strategies in order to discover pertinent information |
Tools for research Collaboration | The Library offers training on different platforms that researchers can utilise to enable them to cooperate and collaborate seamlessly on their research, sharing research objects as well and ideas and experiences, for example, ResearchGate, Google Drive among others. |
Research Impact tracking
| The training covers various tools that can be used to track the scholarly impact of researchers by enabling them to create professional and scholarly online profiles in which they share and keep track of their professional and scholarly activities, for example, Google Scholar Citations. |
Publishing in reputable journals | The library provides information and trainings on the different tools that can be used to help researchers identify legitimate journals for their research. |
Research Communication | The training includes tips on how researchers can effectively communicate their research so that the research can be disseminated to wider audiences in order to increase the research impact in communities. |
Additionally, User instruction services, References services, Circulation services and Computing facilities are also on offer to the University community
- Binding Services
Spiral binding service is available for a fee.
- Photocopying Services
These are available to all library users and are chargeable.
Audio and visual tapes
These are available and can be borrowed overnight only.
Inter-Library Loans Services
For sourcing Books and journals that are not available in the library.
Library Orientation Tours
Available to all new students and any other library user on request.
The Education Library is open to University of Zimbabwe students, members of staff and approved readers.
Monday-Friday: 0800hrs-1630hrs
Friday: 0800hrs-1600hrs
Saturday-Sunday Closed
Public Holidays Closed
University of Zimbabwe Faculty of Education Building
University of Zimbabwe
Churchill Avenue
Mt. Pleasant
Harare
Email: edulib@uzlib.uz.ac.zw
Ms A Mazhude
Subject Information Specialist
Mr J Chiza
Information Consultant