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Due to the library’s good reputation in providing scientific and educational services, the library of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Aswan University, provides many scientific and educational services according to the role assigned to it as part of the university’s general cultural and educational system. This role is not limited to college students only but extends to the scientific community system through students and researchers from different colleges and universities, as well as academic sta

Library objectives:

1- Assisting courses and curricula by stocking the library with everything related to the college’s scientific disciplines.
2- Attempting to keep abreast of developments in scientific research in order to keep up with external developments and achieve the highest level.
3- Developing those skills through self, collaborative, and participatory- learning.
4- Establishing scientific and technical foundations within the library to facilitate research and information access in the shortest amount of time and with the least amount of effort.
5- Providing special needs people with electronic services.
6- Designing directories and indexes for the library’s holdings, which include scientific theses, periodicals, and traditional and electronic information containers.
7- Creating bibliographies to aid in research and viewing.
8- Arranging and organizing bibliographies according to the plan of applying the Dewey Decimal Classification

The library organizes the borrowing system, whether internal or external, according to the laws followed at Al-Azhar University, which are as follows:

Internal borrowing:

In the process of searching and viewing, the library uses an open shelves system, recording all books inside the campus library on a computer in the library and creating an electronic index system for these books to demonstrate the location of the book within the library in order to facilitate access to it and save the time and effort of both the researcher and the library employee. The most number of researchers with the least amount of time and effort, with those who are responsible for the library following up with and assisting the researchers.

External borrowing:

The borrower has the right to borrow a certain number of books as follows
The teacher (faculty member) has five books.
The assistant teacher, the teaching assistant, and the employee are three books.
It is forbidden to borrow theses and scientific theses and copy them, as well as scientific periodicals, dictionaries, atlases, encyclopedias, bibliographies, and books of one copy, outside the scope of the library, but it is allowed to use them inside it.
The borrowing period is set for one month from the date of borrowing the book. If the borrower fails to return the book on the specified date, he will be given a warning. If he does not respond, the university will be addressed to take legal action against him by deducting the price of the book from his salary at the current price, with the addition of 10% administrative expenses.

Books must be delivered to the library:

The library is one of the most important departments in the college because it is based on student service and scientific research, which is the ultimate goal of the educational process. Therefore, many correspondences and scientific gifts are received as follows:-

-Some books and periodicals are returned to the library as a gift, and a scientific committee is formed for the library by the Dean of the College, which includes professors from the departments to examine the scientific content of these books, price them financially, and submit its report to the university to indicate the validity of these books or not and the extent of their benefit in the library. The library’s employees will number these books with the college numbers, add them to the library register, and place them in a visible place inside the library to benefit from them.

-The scientific theses that are discussed within the college are also sent to the library by an official letter from graduate studies stating that this thesis has been discussed and approved and is accompanied by a compact disc (CD) and they are recorded and placed in the library for the benefit of researchers from them.

Every year, the library receives the annual financial statement which includes the amount specified for the college library to purchase the needed books after knowing this amount through its libraries committee, the scientific bookshops are addressed to send offers and lists of books available to them at their prices, and then these lists are presented to the heads of scientific departments;  the college chooses what they need from it and what is commensurate with the offered discounts, then the publishing house from which the books were selected is then addressed according to the department heads’ desires, and after the presentation to the professor, the dean of the college, to provide these books, the house obtains a check for the amount from the accounting unit of the branch through procedures that carried out by the college’s financial affairs. The librarian and his library staff record these books in the library’s financial book at their acceptable costs, add them to the bookshelves, and then they have been arranged to benefit from them.