Administrative Structure

First: Procurement Department

This department is responsible for selecting books and completing their purchase upon arrival to the Central Library General Secretariat, confirming their receipt for payment processing. It also handles the exchange and donation of publications issued by the university or authored by academic staff with other university publications, cultural institutions, and individuals inside and outside the country. It prepares acquisition cards for incoming materials, organizes basic records for books and other cultural materials, and enters them into the automated acquisition system.


Second: Cataloging and Classification Department

This department is responsible for cataloging and classifying books and other cultural publications, preparing preliminary cards to facilitate retrieval and use. It manages catalog systems, updates catalog records, organizes them according to the Dewey Decimal Classification, and prepares a catalog card for each title arranged in ascending order from (000–999).


Third: Automated Systems Department

This department specializes in information technology, communications, office procedures, and designing automated systems required by the library. It provides electronic search services for publications available in the General Secretariat and includes the following units:

  1. Computer and Electronic Resources Unit
  2. Automated Search Unit

Fourth: User Services Department

This department is responsible for lending books, theses, and journals inside and outside the library, organizing their timely return, maintaining records and statistics, arranging books on shelves in their designated places, and preserving them. It also follows up on borrowed materials and provides reference services to users. In addition, it receives journals, newspapers, reports, yearbooks, university guides, and society publications, organizes their records and catalogs, tracks their arrival, and makes them available for borrowing within the library. The User Services Department consists of:

  • Lending Unit:

    This unit handles internal and external book lending (in-library and external borrowing), follows up on returns, and arranges books on shelves according to the Dewey Decimal Classification system.

  • Reference and Religious Publications Unit:

    This unit provides reference services inside and outside the library and includes sources such as dictionaries, indexes, encyclopedias, bibliographies, and more. It follows an open-shelf system allowing researchers and students direct access, in addition to electronic search via computers.

  • Periodicals Unit:

    A periodical publication is one issued at regular or irregular intervals with sequential issues under a distinctive title. This unit includes journals, newspapers, daily reports, yearbooks, university and college guides. These materials are for in-library use only and are available in the designated reading hall.