Department of Information and Records Studies (DIRS) is one of the Department under the Sokoine National Agriculture Library (SNAL) established in 2016 with the aim role to reach out the public through training and consultancy services.

The department is responsible for conducting Studies, Research and Consultancy in the following fields; Library Science, Records and archives management, Knowledge and Information, Management (KIM), Management of Information Systems  (MIS), ICT application in different fields.