Central Library

      In 1967 the city of Mosul witnessed a radical change in its educational and cultural life which will lead, later, to subsequent developments. As established in that year, the University of Mosul at the same time founded the Central Library which remained a cultural and scientific edifice in spite of that it was at the beginning a small building with a small number of employees.

The University gives the library a special attention and provides it with the necessary capabilities to be prominent among the libraries of Universities in Iraq. A new building was established for the library in the center of the University which is about (ten thousand) square meters and consists of three floors containing rooms for reading and research. At that time the University contracts with one of the Danish firms to furnish and provide the library with the most necessary developed materials.

In 1980 the library has moved to its new building and since that date the library took serious steps and made great strides to become one of the greatest cultural and scientific institutions in the country. The library is regarded as an edifice of science and knowledge as it includes the techniques and publications of more than half a million cultural materials, including (3600) titles of Arabic and foreign periodicals as well as other collections of theses, governmental publications and books published by the organizations of the United Nations and rare books.

The library offers its services through various applications of mechanical systems using the rules of bibliographic and technical information on CD-ROMs and that led to establish a special unit called the Electronic Library. In addition to the many fields created by the library through the development of the Internet unit, there are other services provided by other units using techniques based on audio-visual materials, which include displaying and recording of scientific films in the programs of Language Teaching and Readers Guidance.

Recently, the library has witnessed a steady growth, accelerated significantly in the provision of services to the researchers. The library staff has pledged to overcome all the difficulties and constraints with vigor, dedication and self-denial. Among the works conducted in the library are the maintenance and renovation of many of the library service utilities as well as maintaining the relations between the administration of the library and its emoloyees through scheduled meetings of the Director General of the library with the heads of departments and others the  to discuss the achievements and assess the work of the library for the time being.

 The library has established new departments and units as maintaining the indexes, binding the books, periodicals, electronic library, and the library of Ashur Banipal and the library of Ibn Khaldun. The last two libraries are within the main library which include a number of colleges away from university-based centers that deal with heritage and Assyrian cuneiform studies, and perhaps the introduction of an automated system to the administrative and technical sections of the library is regarded as a step forward to facilitate the functioning of the sections of the library and provide better services to the researchers.

 Finally, the great scientific project (the Iraqi Virtual Science Library) has been adopted by our library in association with the libraries of Universities in Baghdad, Basrah and Salah Elddin.  Recently the library witnessed a steady increase in the number of researchers (students, teaching staff, etc) which forms a remarkably great pressure to the various sections of the library, especially, the reading rooms and services. The daily estimated number of library visitors               is about (1000) including undergraduate and postgraduate students, teachers and researchers. The daily borrowing of publications is about 400 books and periodicals.

   This, if anything, indicates the civilized behavior and good services of library employees with the researchers. One of the scientific priorities of the library concerns is to maintain relevance and cultural exchanges with intellectuals and writers of the province through the holding of poetic evenings and cultural forums. This is a small part of a great ambition holds by the employees of this great scientific and cultural edifice.
 

  Administrative Structure Units
Division of Technical Procedures

 

It is specialized in the preparation of the sources of technical information as selection, acquisition and technical processing, storage, and includes the following units:
  A- Acquisition Unit
The Acquisition unit is one of the most important technical units in the library which includes:
  1 – Providing the library with Arabic and foreign publications in addition to all theses, audio-visual aids that come to the library and also addressing the scientific institutions and universities to get their updated publications.

2 - Contacting the publishers and book - agents to get the catalogues of the latest versions of publications issued by these institutions.
 3 - Sending the books to the faculties of the University after indexing and classifying them by the (filing) since the acquisition section is a major supplier of printed materials for all the University colleges.
  4 - Marking the books sent to colleges in records of Arabic and foreign languages.
  5 - Pointing the damaged and lost books in records in order to be omitted from the library records.
  6 - Checking the receipts to verify the publications delivery and claiming for any violation of the deal.
  7 - Registering the publications in the Arabic and foreign annual records to check the registration number in the registry of the printed books.
  8 – Displaying the updated publications to inform the researchers.
 
2 - Indexing and Classification Unit:

This unit is in charge of classifying and indexing the materials that are received from the department of acquisition according to the Dewey Decimal System, a system used in all Iraqi libraries. The classification system that is used in the countries of the world (OCLC on Line Computer Library Center) is also used in the library via the internet and this is what makes the numbers category in the books of the Central Library is the same as those used in the libraries of the developed countries to reach a unified indexing and using the automated system for lending and borrowing.

  The general index is divided into two main groups:
  The first is concerned with the publications in Arabic and the second with the foreign materials and both of them are sub-divided into two parts:

  A - Author and Title Index: includes cards that begin with the name of author and institution or body, and also includes cards that begin with the titles of publications as set out in the title page of the book.

 B – Subject-Headings Index: includes cards that begin with the main topic of the book, noting that there may be more than one subject heading in the book.
  When you use the indexes, you should note the following:

  1 - All the cards are arranged alphabetically in the word indexes drawers, delete the definite particle (ال=the) if it comes at the beginning of the card in Arabic and delete, A, AN, THE, if they begin the card in English.

  2 – The classification number is the most important part of the card since it indicates the place of the book on the shelves of the library.

  3 - Note the symbol above the classification number, which tells you the section where you can find the book.

3 - Gift and Exchange Unit:

This unit is in charge of receiving the library incoming publications through the gifts or exchange as well as sending the books to the Universities and cultural institutions through an exchange among the libraries. This unit receives also the publications from their authors who dedicate them personally to the library, in turn; it sends them an official appreciation letter.

 

4 - Index Maintenance Unit:

This unit undertakes the task of receiving cards for books that are classified and indexed in the Indexing section which, in turn sort these cards and to insert them in their own drawers which are alphabetically classified and located in the courtyard of the library.

 

5 – Book-Binding Unit:

This unit has been established recently to bind the books, periodicals and special collections and restore the materials that need maintenance after getting the raw materials from the local market by the purchasing committee. This unit binds the books with low cost and saves the amounts that were available previously for binding the books outside the library and this saves time and keeps the publications from loss.
 

The Organizational Structure of the Central Library of Mosul University

1 - Director General of the Central Library

Assistant Director General of the Central Library

-         Division of technical measures

1 - Indexing and Classification Unit

2 - Acquisition Unit

3 - Gift and Exchange Unit

4 - Maintenance Indexes Unit

5 - Maintenance of art collections

 

-         Division of Researchers’ Services

1 - Books Receiving Unit

2 – Periodicals Unit

3 - Reference Unit

4 – Unit of Governmental Publications and International Organizations

5 - Unit of University Theses

6 – Unit of Rare Books

7 - Ibn Al-Nafis Studying Hall

8 – Ibn Al Atheer Studying Hall

9 - Library of Ashurbanipal Studying Hall

10 - Library Ibn Khaldun / complex II
 

-         Division of Scientific Affairs

1 - Virtual Library

2 - Forum

3 - Gifts

4 - Electronic Library

 

-         Division of Automated Systems

1 - Research Unit

2 - Audio-Visual means Unit

3 – Unit of Microfilms

4 – Unit of Planning

 

-         Division of Administration

A – Personnel Affairs Unit

1- Individuals

2- Secret pen

3- Archive

 

B - Accounts Unit

1 - Relations and Information Unit

2  -  Services Unit