Department

Information Resource Organization

Classification of the Department

Technical √

Administrative

General competences

Indexing all forms of information resources in the library and correcting the bibliographic records in the systems operating in the library (Sira system, Durar platform).

Position in the organizational structure

Dean of Library Affairs

Vice Dean for Technical Affairs

Director of Library

The main tasks of the department

The department applies a comprehensive indexer system and performs the following tasks:

• Cataloging all forms of information resources.
• Cataloging resources on all systems used in the library.
• Training technical personnel on the systems used: barcode, labeling, tag-based programming.
• Helping with indexing lists.
• Distributing books to branch libraries in the automated system.
• Correcting and modifying electronic information resources and bibliographic records in the system.
• Preparing and implementing exclusion lists, weeding lists, and inventory lists, and issuing the necessary reports and lists for cataloging.
• Building a "newly arrived" list of all cataloged information sources.
• Issuing, withdrawing and receiving confidential book reports and sending letters to colleges.

The strategic goals of the deanship that the department contributes to achieving

• Raising the efficiency of institutional performance by ensuring comprehensive quality standards.
• Securing access to information resources and services for beneficiaries, with high efficiency and quality.
• Organizing information resources effectively, in line with the needs and aspirations of the various beneficiaries as well as the dictates of the Saudi Vision 2030

Competences required for the department

• Technical skills related to cataloging, classifying, and indexing.
• Statistical reporting.

Performance indicators that the department contributes to achieving

• The beneficiaries’ opinion on the recentness and adequacy of the references.
• Ratio of books to students.
• Beneficiaries' satisfaction with the library current and updated content.
• Paper clusters growth rate.