Kenya National Library Services is facing a deluge of users this April holiday.
A visit to the premises on Wednesday morning revealed that most members, who are students, are forced to be in the premises early to at least find a sitting space.
“I had to come here quite early so I could be assured of a sitting space. I was late on Monday hence lacking a space,” says Carol Mwangi, a student.
Most of the users have resorted to sitting on the tiled floor and staircases as they wait to find seats.
The junior section on the first floor is littered with lower primary school kids and the librarians in charge of the section are on their toes to put the children in order.
Despite the introduction of a twenty shilling daily access fee, the users are still flooding the library due to the conducive learning environment and a variety of books.
The library also offers free Wi-Fi hence attracting more members.
“We have a seating capacity of over five thousand users but we are currently facing challenge of chairs, and tables. The library is spacious, actually for now we are just using tenth of our capacity,” says Olala Kweya a librarian.