Library Department

General Objective :

Facilitating the access of employees in the Ministry of Higher Education to various information such as books, researches, studies and magazines

Organizational Position :

Linked to the General Administration of Planning and Statistics

Contacts :

Postal Address : Ministry of Higher Education - Riyadh 11153
Telephone : 4415555
Fax : 4419004

Duties :

1. Contacting national and foreign publishing houses to obtain the most recent publications related to the Higher Education concerning the library or the publications of public nature
2. Participating in publications and specialized magazines that are issued inside and outside the Kingdom
3. Setting up, managing and developing a new inclusive central library that includes all fields of science and knowledge and organizing how to benefit from it in order to serve the purposes of the scientific research, the study, development of knowledge, experiences, spreading of culture as well as saving and documenting the Master's and PHD dissertations
4. Arranging the properties of the library according to the classification and indexing rules and finding means for manual and automatic retrieval
5. Facilitating the access of the beneficiaries to the information within the library services such as booking or borrowing
6. Issuing membership cards to the beneficiaries from the library services according to the directions of the concerned officers in the Ministry
7. Keeping and saving the properties of the library from destruction or damage within taking all necessary precautions known in this field
8. Submitting the necessary information about the library to the project of the ministry's budget
9. Suggesting the procedures related the library and submitting them to the management development department in order to study and attest them, suggesting any developmental step in this field
10. Submitting the suggestions to ministry deputy for planning and information affairs .  This includes plans, rules and instructions that regulate the library's work such as provision rules, classification, information outcast and borrowing and abiding by them
11. Identifying all difficulties and problems that face the course of the work at the library and raising them to ministry deputy for planning and information affairs in order to solve them
12. Preparing periodical reports concerning the works of the library, its achievements and raising them to ministry deputy