I took Six October University Library as an Example of libraries in Egypt that you can enjoyed reading in it.Six October University Library was built in 1996; it considered one of the biggest Libraries in the 6th of October city.
The building of the library was located behind El Hosary mosque and it is in an in depended and private building out of the university.
The building of the library has several advantages, on the level of location, it is located in a unique place, on the other hand it was built on 9000 meter square, and it is also surrounded with 2000 meter of green areas.
“The university library contains 85 thousand books, 18 thousand e mail, 200 video tape recorders, and there is also a public library which contain 17 thousand books” said Mr. Abd El Hamid (the director of the university).
Raghda Ahmed Farid (the assistant of the director) said that“ the library has lots of functions which are: Students From the university or out of the university can borrow books from the library, Searching on the internet for free, The service of EBSCO HOST which help students to learn about the Canadian Reference Centre content within EBSCO's Student Research Centre interface, it also offers SmartText Searching which is a natural language search strategy that allows you to enter as much text for their search as you want – a phrase, a sentence, paragraph, or even whole pages”.
The building of the library was located behind El Hosary mosque and it is in an in depended and private building out of the university.
The building of the library has several advantages, on the level of location, it is located in a unique place, on the other hand it was built on 9000 meter square, and it is also surrounded with 2000 meter of green areas.
“The university library contains 85 thousand books, 18 thousand e mail, 200 video tape recorders, and there is also a public library which contain 17 thousand books” said Mr. Abd El Hamid (the director of the university).
Raghda Ahmed Farid (the assistant of the director) said that“ the library has lots of functions which are: Students From the university or out of the university can borrow books from the library, Searching on the internet for free, The service of EBSCO HOST which help students to learn about the Canadian Reference Centre content within EBSCO's Student Research Centre interface, it also offers SmartText Searching which is a natural language search strategy that allows you to enter as much text for their search as you want – a phrase, a sentence, paragraph, or even whole pages”.
Raghda also added that the library used an electronic index on the OPAC line via the web site of the library or via the web site of the university, and the library also make researches on Data bases which is available On-Line or on CDs.
Not only is the aim of the library to demand the service of the university, but also to serve the educational academic society, and also the research academic society.
Library also provides people with lots of services such as: Reading inside the library, giving advices to readers, External borrowing services, Photo copying services.
“(Insignia) service which is a Canadian system that helps people to search for information quickly, easily and very accurate “said Rania Hanfi (Librarian Employee).
Rania also talked about“(Current surrounding service), which means that the Library used to tell people about the new things and the current events that happen in the library”.
Rania added that “the library contains two thousand hundred Encyclopedias, and the numbers of people who work in the library are from 30 to 35.
Finally the library will make new services such as: making Educational cycles, Language cycles and computer cycles.
Not only is the aim of the library to demand the service of the university, but also to serve the educational academic society, and also the research academic society.
Library also provides people with lots of services such as: Reading inside the library, giving advices to readers, External borrowing services, Photo copying services.
“(Insignia) service which is a Canadian system that helps people to search for information quickly, easily and very accurate “said Rania Hanfi (Librarian Employee).
Rania also talked about“(Current surrounding service), which means that the Library used to tell people about the new things and the current events that happen in the library”.
Rania added that “the library contains two thousand hundred Encyclopedias, and the numbers of people who work in the library are from 30 to 35.
Finally the library will make new services such as: making Educational cycles, Language cycles and computer cycles.
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