Staff Profile

Dr. VALERIA HILMAR KYUMANA

Lecturer / Head - Department of Library Reader Services

About KYUMANA

Dar Es Salaam Campus

Department Of Management Science

valeria.kyumana@ifm.ac.tz

Block A . Second Floor . 204

Valeria Kyumana holds a PhD in Information Studies from the University of Dar es Salaam, an M.A. in Information Studies from the University of Dar es Salaam, and a Bachelor’s Degree with Honors in Library and Information Science from Makerere University. She is currently a Lecturer in the Management Science Department and has more than fifteen years (15) of teaching and library service provision experience. She serves as a member of the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences Library Senate Committee—promoting research and ensuring innovation and quality check of services, and in the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries- COTUL’s ethics committee. Her areas of research and consultancy include librarianship, mental health, prisoners’ information needs and education, libraries and librarians’ position in the digital era, job satisfaction, motivation, and artificial intelligence for education and research. Read More

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS FROM KYUMANA

	Year
Enhancing Marketing of Library Services and Resources through AI Tools in Tanzania’s Academic Libraries Kyumana, Valeria	2025
Job Burnout and Performance: a Study of Academic Staff at Tanzania’s Institute of Finance Management and Moshi Co-operative University Kyumana, Valeria · Ponera, Jaffar	2025
Utilisation and Promotion of Institutional Repositories at the Institute of Finance Management to Enhance Research and Institutional Visibility in Tanzania Kyumana, Valeria · Msonge, Vincent	2025
Big Data Analytic Tools Usage among Academic Libraries in Tanzania Kyumana, Valeria · Ponera, Jaffar	2024
GenAI and Effective Reading Among University Students: Prospects, Challenges, and Future Directions Kyumana, Valeria · Matto, George · Ponera, Jaffar	2024
'Forgotten Prisoners' and the Inalienable Right to Education in Tanzania, Kyumana, Valeria · Corbett, Erin	2023
The digital era trials and tribulations of professional librarians in selected Tanzania accredited technical and vocational institutions Kyumana, Valeria	2023
Academic Libraries’ Service Provision in the Digital Era: The Institute of Finance Management Library Experience with Social Media Adoption Kyumana, Valeria	2022
Awareness of Mental Health Challenges and its Implications for Job Performance among Library Staff at the Workplace: A Qualitative Study Kyumana, Valeria	2021
Establishing Prison Libraries in Tanzania: Prospects and Challenges Kyumana, Valeria	2021
Measuring the level of job satisfaction of library staff at the institute of finance management, Tanzania: A case study Kyumana, Valeria	2017