Information Studies Department is an upshot of the KTTC Library. Initially, it was a section under the Library Services Department, offering user education services to the clientele of Kenya Technical Teachers College Library. The, the section was referred to as the Instruction Development Section. Its main objective was to provide Library User Education/ Instructions to students during the first three month of their course. The instructions were mainly given by the service staff.

In January 1995, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) posted trained staff, for the first, time to teach User Education as a course of study. In 2001, a proposal was successfully tabled with the KTTC Academic Committee, seeking to expand the User Education programme into a Diploma in Library and Information Studies. The first five students who enrolled for the course performed very well. Since then, the enrolment has been increasing due to increased demand and popularity of the course.