The Mission of the management

     Its mission is the presentation and facilitation of getting information electronically and in form of paper for the staff and students through the full support for the libraries of faculties and central libraries in the university.

The specialty of the general management:

1)    The suggestion of a road map in the central library and the faculties’ libraries, the discussion of it with the competent authorities and the suggestion of systems and special schedules of the organization of libraries’ work.

2)    The preparation of a budget project of the university libraries and the follow-up of its execution.

3)     The technical supervision over the central library, the faculties’ libraries and institutes and the coordination among them.

4)     The participation in the choose of librarians and employees, the suggestion of their distribution, training and evaluation, the organization of employees’ training and the nomination of dispatches for mission for the specialization in the libraries’ affairs inside and abroad.

5)    The technical inspection over the university libraries and the offering of special reports to the vice president of the post graduation studies and research to be accredited.

6)    The check of the annual inventory of the libraries through the management of financial and administrative affairs of the university libraries.

7)    The benefit from the extra references and magazines of some faculties by putting it in other faculties that need after the acceptance of the faculty.

8)    The exchange of university books with the libraries and scientific organizations inside and outside through the exchange and gift department and in the management of faculties’ libraries.

9)      The coordination and unification of the work styles and records.

10)  The organization of meetings for the employees in the university libraries.

The Organizational Pattern for the General Management

The post graduation studies and research sector

The general management for libraries

1)    The central library management.

2)    The libraries’ affairs management.

3)    The financial and administrative libraries’ affairs management.

The services of the Kaferelaheikh University libraries

Exterior borrowing

1)    The staff should not borrow more than three books and the assistant organization no more than two books.

2)    The duration of borrowing is two weeks and it can be renewed once.

3)    In the case that they are late in returning the books, they are fined  for every book that is returned in the determined date according to the decision of libraries’ committee.

4)    The library has the right to deprive any one of its services who will oppose its instructions or systems.

5)    It is not allowed to borrow the following:

Encyclopedia, lexicon, references, Arabic and English magazines, unpublished scientific, unique books, publications, codex, papyrus, books with one copy, maps, atlas, reports, dictionaries, legends such as statistics and schema, the  information container that are not paper such as tapes, scientific segments and thumbnail footage (microfilm, micro fish).

Inside Erudition

The registration of the data of visitor electronically during his entrance through the classification of borrow.

The library presents the electronic research service about the wanted book “the author, title and topic” through the library website:

www.eulc.edu.eg.

The  Referential services and  the answer of questionnaires

     It presents services that contain: the answer of questionnaire of benefiters, their help to reach the information, how to search in references and encyclopedia. It is available from the period of direction until the benefiter leaves his question and the reviser searches for the question and finds the answer.

The preparation of bibliographic lists

     They prepared lists of library shelves that contain the names of available books and references in every topic and lists of information sources that speak about the researchers’ interests in special field to make it easier for them to reach the information.

Current Knowledge

     It is specified for the new information sources that the benefiters need and reach the library first by first. This is happened by: communicating with them, showing them the contents of the new titles or presenting it in the. We are to develop the service by telling the benefiters of email through the future program of the library management.

The connection with the outer data

     The supreme council of universities allows many international databases inside the university for all researchers and the general management provides outlets for the researches in the library, organizes search and typing and puts the rules that organize that.

Cooperative Borrow

    The borrowing is between library and another or among many libraries by a previous agreement and according to specified terms and controls.

Photography Service

It presents the service of copying the articles of magazines, referential or ordinary books.

The service of providing the Full Text of Scientific Thesis

It is available in the unit index of the Egyptian universities libraries: www.eulc.edu.eg.

The full text icon will appear in front of researcher and by clicking it, 10% of the message will appear for the researcher outside the university, but it will appear totally.

The Faculties’ Libraries

The digital Library and the unit index for the libraries of Egyptian Universities

1)    Kafrelsheikh University participates with the unit index of the Egyptian Universities Libraries that are subordinate to the union of the libraries under the authority of the supreme council of universities and the unit of digital library.

2)      In the faculties’ libraries  of Specific Education, Agriculture, Engineering and Veterinary Medicine, they mechanize ( borrowing, visitors, electronic research, the download of full text of articles and researches from the databases) and try to enter the items of other faculties’ libraries ( Education, Arts, Commerce, Physical Education and the central library).

3)    The digital library provides many collections of international databases in different knowledge  topics including the full text of the most modern researches and scientific articles and the researchers can see these researches and download the full text by the following:

1)    The website: www.eulc.edu.eg.

2)    The choice of classification of international databases.

3)    The choice of database and the use of it for research according to the research instruction special for every database.

One can get this service through Proxy settings according to the following instructions:

1)    One should get the user name  and password from any university library.

To enter, please enter the unit index site:

www.eulc.edu.eg.

2)    The proxy should be set once and these settings oblige the computer to use proxy only  in the case that one enter the international databases, but it is not allowed to be used in the other personal sites of the user.

The steps of Proxy Settings from Home:

1)    From internet browser, one chooses table tools, then Internet Options and Connections.

2)    Click setting button in the case that one use telephone or mobile line to log in internet.

3)    Click LAN Settings in the case of using internet connections or DSL service.

4)    One should the site name www.eulc.edu.eg  as it appears on the following screen:

           If the Proxy Setting is true:

A)    A window will appear when one tries to visit any site of the international databases sites and will ask one to enter username and password.

B)    One will choose the international databases, and then start to search in the database that satisfies our interest where we will find the explanation of the database below its extension.

1)    The available databases in the digital library project

A)    Jstor:

     An archival database for magazines, that are first version and even from four years, covers different topics with more concentrate on humanities and social science.

B)    Science direct:

     It covers the full texts for 2000 scientific magazines that are specialized in the different scientific fields and they are available for researchers and students since 1997 until now. Besides, it allows the opportunity to reach the article in press that is not published in the printable form.

C)    Academic search premier:

      It is considered to be a basic academic reference in all fields of human knowledge since 1975 until now and contains 83 and 6879 extracts from magazines that are judged besides the full texts of 47 scientific magazines.

D)    Springer Link:

It is a general database that provides the full texts of magazines and electronic books.

E)    Scopus:

     It contains a database of extracts and referential citations around the intellectual production in the scientific magazines and web recourses in all human knowledge fields and it helps in recognizing the intellectual production in the 15 thousands titles available for 4000 publishers besides1285 academic magazines, 500 magazines published in the web, summaries and citations, 700 scientific conferences, 28 million extracts, 245 million referential citations for the extracts and 13 million patents.

2)    The database of Agriculture and Health Sectors:

A)    Global health:

The Bibliography extracts and data contain 3500 magazines in medical, agricultural and biology fields and biology science since 1973 until now.

B)    CAB abstracts:

It contains 11000 titles in the fields of agriculture, science and health.

3)    The database of medical sector:

A)    Medline plus text open access:

     It contains archival subjects for 200 titles in the form of full texts and it is available since 1992 until 2003.

B)    The Lippincott Williams and Wilkins (LWW) current journal collections:

        It provides the full texts of 22 magazines in the medical field and it is available from 1993 until now.

4)    The databases of social sciences and humanities sectors:

1)    Wilson Humanities:

    It contains 500 titles in all fields of social sciences, linguistics and humanities including the full texts of 160 scientific magazines that are judged.

5)    The database of Engineering sciences:

A)    IEEE journals:

     This base contains the full text of 128 magazines in the specialisms of space systems, computer,   remote communication systems and medical engineering fields besides the fields and consumption of energy and the other fields of electronic engineering.

B)    ASME journals (American Society of Mechanical Engineers):

    This base contains the full texts of 22 scientific magazines that are judged in the fields of mechanical engineering, are issued from ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) that is one of the specialized scientific associations in this field.

C)    ASME standards:

      The full texts contain 30 thousands standards and normal specifications in the fields of mechanical engineering that ASME collects. Moreover, it is the most comprehensive electronic information sources of standards that define the properties list of the mechanical engineering products over the world.

The Service of Documents Delivery:

An Introduction:

     It is one of the unit index and digital library services and one of the projects of supreme universities council. Through it, the research can get either the article text or chapter of book or thesis through the coordination with the responsible of it; this is not available by the full text on the digital library site, besides, one should send money order to the supreme universities council for getting the document.

The following is the policy of how to present the service and to get the required articles according to the instructions of supreme universities council:

1)    In case of the existence of article summary or book data on the digital library site, the research pays 15 pounds for every article.

2)    In case of the demand of article in Egypt and not on the digital library site, the cost of the document will be (60 pounds or 2 pounds for one paper).

3)    In case of the demand of document (article, conference researches, chapter of thesis, minimum 20 pages) from one of the Egyptian Universities, the cost will be 50 Pounds.

4)    In case of the demand of document outside Egypt and not on the digital library site, the cost will be 15 Dollars and the researchers pay 50%.

5)    The maximum for getting the document is 21 days since one pay fees.

How to Ask for Document:

1)    The researcher should have username and password on the digital library site: .www.eulc.edu.eg.

2)    The researcher should fill the model of document demand on site through the benefiter services.

3)    The coordination with the responsible of document service who is Mr el Saied Mabrouk Ibrahim, the senior manager of libraries, T: 047/ 3213695, M: 0109285608 by an account No (9001903) on the system of future and digital library and email: sae32@yahoo.com.

4)     In case of the document outside the digital library, the cost of this document is sent through money order that is sent on the office of post office of Cairo University, supreme universities council, digital library unit by the name of Mahmoud Mohamed Ezzat Hasan.

5)    The delivery number should be brought to the responsible as the document should be accredited from the digital library unit through the automatic system.

6)    The researcher will receive the document through 21 days from the date of the payment of financial value (the send of money order).

7)    In case of the withdrawal of document demand, it will be in Wednesday of every week and the withdrawal should be before the demand of document from the supplied organization.

8)    In case of the withdrawal of document demand in the determined period or the researcher does not get the document, one will retrieve what he pays.

The placeholders of the general management of the libraries: