The library has come a long way since the establishment of MUHAS in 1963 as the Dar es Salaam School of Medicine, to address the severe shortage of trained medical staff that existed in the country at that time. It is the largest medical and health sciences library in Tanzania. Its main function is to provide Library documentation services to support health/ medical services, research, and teaching at the University. The MUHAS library is administratively divided into four sections namely technical, readers services, periodical and documentation, and the ICT sections. The library is estimated to have more than 100,000 volumes of materials in different health fields and subscribes to over forty academic databases. The Library accommodates about 600 users at a time and offers both reference and lending services. The library also provides 24-hour reading and discussion rooms, which can accommodate 200 users at a time. In addition, the new library wing also houses an ICT computer laboratory with the capacity to accommodate 250 computers.