Dept. Library

Library goals:

1. Development of the library’s collections by choosing books, periodicals and various information sources that the beneficiaries of students, researchers and teachers need in the department’s specialized field that are wireless and optical communications and specializations close to the main specialization.

2. Development of the office systems in place in line with recent developments in the field of library and information services.

3. Facilitating electronic and traditional office services for all beneficiaries and enable them to access book sources and references in the best way.

4. Creating the appropriate atmosphere inside the library for study and research.

5. Cooperating with its counterparts in other departments, whether within the university or its counterparts with other universities in the field of specialization, as well as with publishing and distribution houses.

Library staff:

The library staff for the Communications Engineering Department consists of the staff listed below:

1. Lecturer Nihaya Mohammed Abd Ali               (Head of the Library Division).

2.                ——–                                                  (Assistant Librarian).

Community of Beneficiaries:

The library provides services to a group of categories, where the community of beneficiaries includes:

1. The teaching staff: The process of loaning books to all teaching staff in the department with their various specializations and degrees, in addition to the engineers, technicians and administrators.

2. Postgraduate students: The process of loaning books to all postgraduate students at various levels (PhD, Master, Higher Diploma) takes place.

Services are provided to external beneficiaries from outside the university through internal secondment and access to available resources.

Library Instructions and Regulations:-

• The secondment service is provided to the beneficiaries through a special identity in the department’s library that the student or the beneficiary works on to grant him and the information of the book or source he needs is recorded in it, and the source is returned according to a special mechanism.

• Secondment services are provided to the teaching staff, graduate students, and department employees.

• The teaching staff are entitled to borrow a maximum of one month, renewable, in the absence of a reservation on the books from another beneficiary.

• Postgraduate students are entitled to borrow, for a maximum of one month, renewable, in the absence of a reservation on the books from another beneficiary.

• Elementary studies students have the right to view books, dissertations, magazines and others within the scope of the library, and he is entitled to borrow outside the library if the library identity is available.

• The employees of the department, including male and female employees, are entitled to borrow books for a period of one month, renewable in the absence of a reservation on the books from another beneficiary.

• Books are not renewed or loaned for a second period unless they are brought in by the borrower and checked by library officials before the expiry of their first borrowing period.

• The borrower is prohibited from borrowing in the event of repeated delay or failure to pay the prescribed delay fine.

• The student is not granted the final exam result except after obtaining a clearance from the department library.

• Preserving the loaned book, and in case it is lost or damaged, the borrower must compensate it to the library, and the borrower is obligated to compensate the library with a new original copy or pay a fine for the lost book.

• All loaned books shall be returned at the beginning of November for the purpose of completing the library’s annual inventory.

These controls and instructions are designed for the purpose of preserving the library’s resource collection from loss or damage. Please adhere to the above.

Library tasks

• Helping the beneficiaries in selecting the sources of information and in the automatic search.

• Signing the clearance certificate for postgraduate students.

• Store postgraduate dissertation discs in the main library’s computer.

• Providing the department headquarters with information and statistics about the department’s library periodically, as well as answering all inquiries.

• Archiving books and information sources available in the database after registering them in the library records.

• Receiving theses from postgraduate students after their graduation, with 2 theses + 2 CD for students of the department, and 1 thesis + 1 CD for external students.

• Preserve the loaned book, and in case it is lost or damaged, the borrower must compensate it to the library. The borrower is obligated to compensate the library with a new original copy or pay a fine for the lost book.