The Central Library has a total stock of approximately six thousand and fifty text books and a few titles of core journals.

The library uses the following information resources to provide services:

• Online medical journals and medical databases
• Books and printed reports
• Printed Journals
• Indexes and Abstracts
• Staff publications
• Theses and dissertations by Staff and Postgraduate students                            
• Staff Scientific reprints:

     The library holds reprints from KEMRI's research activities in the following

     areas, HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Leishmaniais, Lymphatic Filariasis, Public

     Health, Reproductive Health, Schistosomiasis, Traditional Medicines and

     Drugs, Tuberculosis and Viral Hepatitis among others

• Examination papers
• The Library Bulletin- informs the users about new acquisitions and services available in the library
• CD-ROMS. The following CD-ROMS are available:
  • Diarrhoeal diseases
  • HIV/AIDS Revised Edition
  • Nutrition
  • Schistosomiasis
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases
  • Acute Respiratory Infections
  • Leishmaniasis
  • Sickle Cell Disease
  • The WHO reproductive Health library