Librarian
| Name | Spiciality | Phone | |
| Faiyz Saeed Alahmay | falshalel@kku.edu.sa | Libraries and information | 0172417160 |
General instructions within the central library and branch libraries
General instructions:
- We welcome you to the Library, wish you a successful university life, and would like to explain some general instructions within the Central Library. The library staff is fully prepared to assist you and meet your requests. We hope you will cooperate with the library staff to maintain and upgrade your Library for the better.
- It is forbidden to read aloud.
- Maintain order and calm, and adhere to the Central Library's instructions.
- Using mobile communication devices (mobile) in the Library is forbidden, and users must keep the devices silent to maintain calm.
- Eating and drinking inside the Library is strictly prohibited.
- Smoking is strictly prohibited inside the Library.
- Visitors are not allowed to bring their belongings and bags into the library hall; instead, they are placed in the designated locker room.
- The Library is open from eight-thirty in the morning until two thirty in the afternoon and from two thirty to eight-thirty in the evening.
- The beneficiaries are provided with all guiding and reference procedures. Their questions and inquiries are answered without discrimination to improve performance and benefit from the available sources of information.
- Do not return books to shelves after you have finished using them.
- It is strictly forbidden to take any book or reference from its place and return it to another site; the detector will detect this.
- When a library is loaned out, it must be returned to the Library before the loan period ends.
- It is allowed to renew the lending of books for a second borrowing period as needed. The renewal is done only by bringing the books to be renewed so the officer can inform the student that it is possible to continue or restore them.
- It is strictly forbidden to borrow or take out the following library materials from the Library:
- the reviewer
- periodicals
- bookshelf booking
- University Theses
- Only photocopying of these materials was permitted through the library camera and according to the instructions for using this equipment.
- Books should be preserved and not written on, torn, or lost.
- The Library's office materials, equipment, and furniture must be preserved and not tampered with by any behavior that may lead to its sabotage. Moving chairs from one table to another and transferring tables from their place is strictly forbidden.
- Complete calm and cleanliness must be maintained within the Library.
- It is strictly forbidden to bring personal belongings, food, and drinks into the Library. Personal belongings must be left in the lockers designated for this outside the Library.
- Using (personal) laptop computers for study purposes only is allowed, and any other use is prohibited. The devices available in the Library are only for research or scientific Internet use.
- Bulletin boards inside and outside the Library must be constantly monitored, as you may find in them what is helpful to you or any instructions or announcements issued by the Library.
- Feel free to ask the library staff about books, the Library's computerized search program, using a photocopier, or anything else.
- All provisions of these instructions and the library staff's directives and regulations must be followed. Anyone who violates this exposes himself to accountability and punishment.
- Cameras monitor the Library in all departments.
- The library staff is always at your service.
Borrowing Instructions:
- It is not permissible to renew the borrowing of any book if it is required for one or more persons; in this case, priority is taken into account when lending this book. New books may not be lent to beneficiaries if they have late books.
- References and periodicals may not be lent.
- The books on the reservation shelf are borrowed for one day only, and the Library organizes their use during working hours.
- Afternoon borrowing begins half an hour before the end of the Library's official working hours and ends an hour after the start of the next day's work.
Lend Categories:
First category: (faculty members)
Number of books allowed to be borrowed (15) books
The lending period is a maximum of (45) days
Category Two: (Postgraduate Students)
Number of books allowed to be borrowed (10) books
The lending period is a maximum of (30) days
Third Category: (University Undergraduate Students)
Number of books allowed to be borrowed (5) books
The lending period is a maximum of (15) days
Fourth Category: (University Employees)
Number of books allowed to be borrowed (4) books
The lending period is a maximum of (15) days
Fifth category: (beneficiaries from outside the university)
Number of books allowed to be borrowed (3) books
The lending period is a maximum of (15) days
Electronic library
Electronic library services:
The Deanship of Library Affairs provides many manual and self-service services, including:
- Establishing rules that regulate internal and external borrowing of books and scientific references.
- Receiving visitors and researchers and providing all office services.
- Publication of the library's bibliography for easy internal search.
- Preparing the unified index of the library holdings of the central library and branch libraries.
- The use of advanced technology in the library "Symphony System."
- Collecting and receiving the approved university theses for the master and doctoral degrees by submitting a hard copy and sending a PDF copy to the “digital repository email” located on the home page of the Deanship of Library Affairs website in the “University Theses” icon.
- Recording the data of those visiting the library and preparing the necessary reports.
- Helping visitors and researchers use databases and advanced search in the central library systems to obtain information quickly.
- Training the Central Library and college library librarians on advanced technology and quality control, and introducing library holdings on the Symphony system.
- Manual and automatic lend, renewal, and return.
Electronic Library System (SYMPHONY):
- It is an integrated library management system.
- It contains all the technical and administrative processes of supplying, recording, categorizing, indexing, lending, controlling periodicals, and searching.
- Bilingual and compatible with the Marc format that complies with Anglo-American cataloging rules.
- The ability to search through the Internet.
- The ability to scale and link to other systems.
- Work with any computer network regardless of the computers used.
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