Services

Extension and reference services are a measure of the performance of libraries and information centres, and the quality of their public or direct services, as well as a mirror reflecting their activities and objectives and their capacity to assist beneficiaries and recipients, to meet their needs for obtaining the information desired and to guide them to the most rational and optimal use of library holdings.

From this perspective, the Library interacts through its qualified information specialists with the beneficiary groups and ensures that they are provided with the best advice and that it meets their knowledge and information needs by answering their information queries, responding to their questions and queries regarding the library system, directing them and instructing them on how to use references and resources related to a particular subject, as well as identifying and training users in the use of automated indexes of library holdings, and how to access electronic databases.

Believing in the importance of having a special loan list that identifies the relationship between it and its beneficiaries, both employees and users, the management of the Library has sought to draw it up in the light of its vision, mission and objectives.

When drawing up these regulations, the working group based itself on a number of sets of library regulations from both inside and outside the Kingdom, as well as a set of standards and regulatory specifications...

The Library has a photocopying and binding service centre, subject to copyright restrictions. 10-15% of the pages or container contents may be photocopied, as agreed internationally.

Arabic Open-Sources Information

Foreign Open Sources Information...

In addition to making use of automated library catalogues and making them available through the local system within the library, and through the Internet, the Library provides a specialized search service to help the beneficiary access the information he needs.

This service is dedicated to interviewing the beneficiary before he undertakes his research to understand his information needs accurately by identifying search concepts and terms, selecting appropriate information rules, creating a live search mechanism, evaluating the results and presenting them to the beneficiary and retaining a copy of them.

The Library has a scientific publishing programme with fixed objectives, policies and regulations ratified by the Board of Directors.

Library has established a Department of Scientific Publishing to monitor publishing, translation, and printing in order to achieve the desired intellectual and scientific objectives. The Library has issued about 253 publications...

The library offers its visitors the service of searching in the bibliographic databases in its automated system, displaying the results on the screen, storing them on electronic media, sending them by e-mail, or printing them on paper as requested by the researcher.