Contact Information

• Name:

  University of Malawi Library, Chancellor College

• Postal Address:

  PO Box 280
  Zomba
  Malawi

• Telephone:

  +265 01524 222

• Facsimile:

  +265 01525 239 or 01524 046

• E-mail:

  ccadmin@unima.wn.apc.org

• Director:

  Augustine W. C. Msiska, College Librarian

• Year founded:

  1965

Collections

• Type of repository:

  Library

• Types of source material:

  Grey literature
  Music
  Newspapers
  Posters
  Sound recordings
  

• Size:

  See holdings

• Holdings:

  Our book and bound periodicals collection is about 235,966 volumes.This includes our Africana (Malawian collection) which boasts of some of the rare primary sources to which must be added works by and about David Livingstone,the Scottish missionary and traveller with whom the early modern history of Malawi is associated. Other collections: filmstrips (225), microfilms(1077), microfiche(2569),500 CD-ROMs, gramophone records (1077), slides (7754), tapes/cassettes(69), tapes/reel to reel (96), tapes/videos (5). For manuscripts see "Material Available in the University Library in connection with Research into the History of Malawi." The volumes of books and periodicals exclude the UN collection for which the library is a partial depositary and other depositary collections such as the World Bank.

• Receiving new material?

  No

• Languages:

  English, French, local Malawian languages
  

Access Conditions

• Access conditions:

  Register as bonafide researchers

• Finding tools:

  Accession lists or registers
  Card catalogs
  Guides
  Inventories
  

• Copier available?:

  No

Repository publications:

• Material Available in the University Library in connection with Research into the History of Malaw. 1971 (3 pages)