Librarian, Faculty of Law and Political Science

  • DJEMIYAT Ghania
  • ghania.djmiat@univ-msila.dz
  • dsp.gestion@univ-msila.dz
  • 035353281

About the Library

Library Building

The new library building was opened in 2003 and consists of:

  • Ground floor: Includes a bookstore for students and professors in the field of specialization, along with two internal offices and a lobby for students and professors.
  • First floor: Includes a reading room, a memorandum room, and an administrative office.

Human Resources

EmployeesNumber
University Library Annex3
Permanent staff3
Computer technician2
Pre-exploitation contracts3
The total11

 

Direction:
It is managed by a library manager who oversees all library operations, both administrative and technical, in coordination with the college administration, such as:

  • New admissions
  • External relations
  • Receiving students and listening to their concerns

Loan Department: Performs the following tasks:

  • Following up on library registration for faculty and students
  • Following up on internal and external loan processes for faculty and students
  • Renewing lost library cards
  • Issuing a certificate of clearance to graduating students

The following categories benefit from the loan service:

  • Professors
  • Students in the College of Arts and Languages
  • External students

It is managed by a library manager who oversees all library operations, both administrative and technical, in coordination with the college administration, such as:

New admissions
External relations
Receiving students and listening to their concerns

Loan Department: Performs the following tasks:

Following up on library registration for faculty and students
Following up on internal and external loan processes for faculty and students
Renewing lost library cards
Issuing a certificate of clearance to graduating students

Loan: The following categories benefit from the loan service:

Professors
Students in the College of Arts and Languages
External students

The following table shows the number of books allowed to be loaned and the period allowed for each beneficiary:

Beneficiary categoryNumber of booksAllowed period (day)
Students of the Faculty of Law and Political Science210 days
Graduating students310 days
Graduate students310 days
Students from other universities (interlibrary cooperation)210 days
Professors5020 days

Bibliographic Guidance and Research Service: Among the service’s tasks and services:

  • Ensuring bibliographic research for researchers and training users on the use of library tools.

  • Managing the process of updating the library’s general catalogs through descriptive and analytical cataloging.

  • Receiving, guiding, and counseling students and professors.

  • Informing about the lending system and internal regulations.

  • Bibliographic research: The department has an automated catalog, allowing students and professors to conduct bibliographic research by catalog (authors, titles, and subjects).

  • Supervising interns and students from the Institute of

Documentation and Libraries within the framework of practical training.

Documentary Fund Management Department: This department coordinates between the processing staff at the warehouse level to determine the new acquisition list, process it, and then enter it into the lending process. The most important features of this department are:

  • Ensuring all types of cataloging operations.
    Automated index card entry.
  • Submitting the annual report on the
  • Documentary fund.

Library Services: Services provided by the library

  • Internal and external lending
  • Automated bibliographic search
  • Bibliographic search using various descriptive indexes
  • Descriptive indexes for dissertations and theses

Automated search

It includes the use of the library’s automated catalogs to search for information sources inside and outside the library. Users can search automatically from inside and outside the library via the Internet in Arabic and French for all of the library’s holdings.

Documentary balance

 Number of titlesNumber of copies
Arabic books6000060000
French books2300044000
English books2301855
Master’s graduation theses380 380
magazines83125