Lamu Fort Library

[citation needed] Lamu Fort Library is still using a Browne Charging system to lend books.

The Librarian had subdivided the library into Research, Archive, E-library and Maktaba Sanaa section, for easy retrieval of information.

[citation needed] The research section holds theses, projects, historical books, periodicals, bibliographies, and dissertations.

It includes many rare publications of popular Swahili writers such as: Professor Sheikh Nabhany,[5][6] Lamu Conservation books by Usam Ghaidan,[7][8] and Quest for the past : An historical guide to the Lamu Archipelago by Chrysee MacCasler Perry Martin and Esmond Bradley Martine,[citation needed] Francesco Siravo and Ann Pulver, new research collections "in this fragile World"[9] a book edited by Clarissa Vierke and Annachiara Raia and many more.

The library holds a large and diverse range of archival materials such as old photographs from Lamu, 19th and 20th century manuscripts, old newspapers, magazines and periodicals, as well as old currencies, and files.

The UMADA project digitized roughly two thousand manuscripts and audio cassettes from the personal library of Lamu poet and imam Mahmoud Ahmed Abdulkadir, locally known as Ustadh Mau.

[citation needed] It was managed and supervised by Annachiara Raia from the African Studies Centre Leiden in Netherlands[10] The digitization was funded by UCLA’s Modern Endangered Archives Program that is supported by ARCADIA.

[13] Also the introduction of the MprinT project[14] was done in Lamu Fort Library with team of museum's staff and volunteers on the mapping and digitization of the Islamic manuscripts in the Lamu Archipelago, the MprinT project is managed by Professor Anne Katrine Bang from Bergen University in Norway of department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion.