Library Department

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Library Department

The library is affiliated with the Learning Resource Centre which is under the Office of the Assistant Dean for Academic Support Affairs.

The Scope of the Library’s Services:

- The Deanship

- Academic departments

- Academic support departments

- Administration and Finance

- College students

- The community

Responsibility:

The library staff is in charge of carrying out the library’s work policy.

Goal:

The library’s goal is to provide various sources of information and facilitate their use in a suitable atmosphere. The library staff will give necessary guidance, supervision and training.

1. Working Hours

The library working hours are as follows:

· During academic semesters:

- Sunday to Wednesday: 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

- Thursday: 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. (One staff member will stay until 3 p.m.)

· During the summer holiday and exam weeks: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. (i.e. the College’s official working hours)

2. Intentional Damaging of Library materials:

· Print materials:

The detrimental use of library print materials (such as ripping out, cutting off and highlighting) is considered as intentional damaging of library materials and ,therefore, against library regulations.

· Electronic Resources:

The intentional damaging of any kind of electronic resources (such as CD’s and/or any other audiovisual materials) in such a way that it becomes difficult to use them afterwards, is considered as intentional damaging of library materials.

· Library facilities

It consists in any act of destruction or mutilation; such as writing on the library furniture, walls or equipments.

3. Stealing and mutilation

4. Prohibited Behaviours

The following behaviours are prohibited in the library:

· Smoking

· Eating and drinking

· Making noise

· Using prohibited areas

5. Using library computers

Library computers are constantly available for immediate use. They consist of two computers for boys and two for girls. Their use is restricted to library index searching and self-issue.

6. Powers of the Library Staff

In case of any offense, the library staff are allowed to report to the LRC management.

Loan Policy

1. Beneficiaries of the Library

· Students (the library’s main users)

· Faculty members

· All College staff (academic support and admin)

· Guests, researchers and students from other institutions provided they present a verification from their own institutions.

Users must show either a student card or their own institution’s identification card. A visitors’ register will be made soon and will include information based of the visitors’ identification cards and the verifications.

2. Types of Loans

There are two types of loans:

- The whole-semester loan: students are allowed to borrow, for a whole semester, textbooks as well as the books listed in their course descriptions.

- The regular loan: library users are allowed to borrow books and references for a maximum period of two weeks, non-renewable.

- Using library materials that cannot be borrowed

· Reserving books

A student can borrow a book that has been reserved for an academic course provided that s/he uses it on campus.

· Audiovisual materials

CD’s annexed to books are subject to the same book loan regulations.

· References

The references include encyclopaedias, dictionaries, maps, atlases, manuscripts, theses, rare books, etc. These are available in the reference room and cannot be lent to any user except for the purpose of photocopying, in which case the user cannot keep any item for more than two hours.

3- Loan Duration

The loan of books is calculated on the basis of normal working days—excluding academic, religious, national and Eid holidays—in accordance with the academic calendar, as follows:

· One semester for Academic staff

· Two weeks for academic support staff and administrators

· Two weeks for students.

· Two Weeks for the outside community

4- The maximum loan:

Users are allowed to borrow Library materials as follows:

· 15 books for Academics

· 5 books for students

· 5 books for non-academics, administrators and the outside community

5- Fines

· A fine is a fee imposed on the beneficiaries who exceeded the book-return deadline.

· The fine for each day of delay per book is 200 Baisa.

· The fine for whole-semester loansis one Riyal per overdue item. A maximum of three Riyals must be paid for all overdue items.

· The Librarian can exempt the beneficiary from paying an overdue fine in case of an emergency, such as being sick or the death of a relative. In such an event, a verification must be provided.

· Fines are issued by the Librarian and the payment should be made to the Finance Department in the college. Once the payment has been made, the beneficiary must give the receipt to the librarian.

· The beneficiary cannot borrow any Library materials in case s/he has not paid overdue fines. Failure to pay library fines may even lead to preventing the student from registration.

6- Lost items:

· An article is considered missing in case it has been declared lost by the beneficiary, or has not been returned before the deadline.

· The beneficiary must pay the a fine equaling the price of the lost article, as per relevant Library custody records and/or the electronic library system, along with 15% of the value of the article (administrative and technical fees).

· The fine must be paid at the Finance Department in the College.

· The beneficiary receives a receipt of the paid fine.

· Once the fine has been paid, a lost-and-found article cannot be returned.

· The beneficiary is allowed replace a lost article with a new one on the condition that the title, author and publisher are the same.