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Site and Building Guide

The Library building consists of four main floors:

  1. The Ground Floor accommodates the main entrance and racks for new books.

    Featured in the entrance is a splendid replica of the ancient map of Jerusalem and the Holy Land completed in the 6th Century A.D. and found in one of the Madaba churches.

  2. The First Floor accommodates the two main reading halls of the Arabic collection:
    • The first hall houses books on the following topics: computer science, philosophy, religion, and law.
    • Ihsan Abbas Hall houses books on the following topics: Languages, Engineering, Administration, Literature, History, and Geography.
    • E-Circulation Desk.
    • Online Cataloguing Area.
    • Technical Processing Office.
    • Computerized Teaching Lab.
    • Acquisition Section.
  3. The Second Floor accommodates the main hall of the English Collection and Administration Offices.
  4. The Third Floor accommodates Arabic and English Periodicals.
  5. The Fourth Floor accommodates:
    • The Electronic Library with 40 PCs connected to the Internet with online access to hundreds of databases and information resources.
    • Carrels for reading.
    • Teaching facilities for Library & Information Science Dept. such as classrooms, teaching staff rooms, labs, etc.
    • A seminar hall.