SUPPORT & SERVICES

RULES & REGULATIONS

  • Leave your personal belongings, such as handbags, briefcases, etc., outside the library entrance on your own responsibility. The library disclaims any liability for loss or damage.
  • Badges must be kept when entering the library.
  • Do not write, underline, highlight, water damage, stains, torn pages, or covers of any library books. They are carefully examined on return, and the borrower will be held responsible for the damage.
  • Refrain from reshelving books or journals.
  • Complete silence should be observed except for brief and subdued talk with the library staff.
  • Smoking, drinking, and eating are not allowed in the library.
  • Keep your mobiles silent within the library premises.
  • All belongings left for more than one day will be kept at the circulation counter.
  • Seats in the library cannot be reserved.
  • Insulting language or provocative behavior of any kind is not permitted.
  • Students who exhibit such behavior will be asked to leave the library immediately.
  • If a user attempts to steal or damage COM-J Library property, this matter will be referred to College disciplinary procedures.
  • Photography, videography, and sound recording within the library are forbidden without permission from the library staff.
  • Alumni are welcome to use all COM-J Library facilities but do not have borrowing privileges.
  • Children under the age of twelve are prohibited in the library.
  • Conducting surveys of any kind without the prior permission of COM-J Library staff is not permitted.

SERVICES

 

CIRCULATION:

The purpose of this Circulation Policy is to present guidelines for maintaining accurate, efficient, and consistent service procedures. All books from the regular collection are checked out from this area. However, of necessity, library materials can be circulated only to COM-J, KSAU-HS students, faculty and staff.

  • BORROWING LIMITS
Member Category Borrowing Privileges Days Renewal
Student 02 07 07 days (twice only)
Faculty 04 30 14 days (twice only)
Staff 02 07 07 days (twice only)

     

  • RENEWAL

Books can be renewed twice, unless they are required by another user. Renewal of library materials must be made on or before the item due date to avoid fine charges, providing no other patron has requested the item(s).

 

  • RESERVATIONS

Books can be reserved for 24 hours only; each registered user may reserve a maximum of two (02) library books which are currently checked out to other users. Once the item is available, the users will be notified by email for collection.

 

  • OVERDUE FINES

Students: Two (02) Saudi Riyals per day per item fine is charged, with a maximum of three hundred (SR 300.00) per book.

Faculty members & staff: Five (05) Saudi Riyals per day per item fine is charged, with a maximum of five hundred (SR 500.00) per book.

  • LOST & DAMAGE 

If library material is damaged beyond repair or is lost, the patron must replace it with the same item or the latest edition plus any overdue fines.

INTERNET ACCESS:

Computers are available for searching the literature and preparing the assignments. Workstations are updated and rebooted each night; any user data on the hard drive is erased. Save your work on external media, the cloud, or email your files to yourself.

LIBRARY WI-FI:

Laptops, phones, or other devices with Wi-Fi capability have access through KSAU-HS credentials.

PRINTING/PHOTOCOPYING/SCANNING:

Printing, photocopying and scanning are available on a limited basis, and strictly for research and study purposes.

INTERLIBRARY LOAN (ILL)/DDS:

Any KSAU-HS student, faculty member, or staff can borrow books from libraries in other University Colleges when it is not available in his/her own College Library. On behalf of the borrower (requester), the concerned College Library will send an email to the library where the book is available.

Journal articles and other research materials not owned by the COM-J library can usually be acquired from other libraries of KSAU-HS as well as locally and internationally.

ILL is usually used to fulfill requests for certain formats:

Book/Book Chapter (as PDF files)

Journal Articles (as PDF files)

DIGITAL LIBRARY of KSAU-HS:

The Acknowledge Databases consist thousands of available online full text of Journals and Books on Bio-Medical and related subjects.

SAUDI DIGITAL LIBRARY (SDL):

The Saudi Digital Library is the largest source of academic and scientific information in the Arab world. It includes more than 310 thousand of scientific references, covers all academic majors, and continuously updates its content, which results in a huge knowledge accumulation on the long run.

The library provides advanced information and digital resource services, which may be beneficial to faculty members, researchers, graduate and undergraduate students.

Student and Faculty can access the Saudi Digital Library (SDL) through Blackboard, on-campus & off-campus.

ONLINE PUBLIC ACCESS CATALOG (OPAC):

An online bibliography of the library collection is available for users through KSAU-HS Digital Library. In addition, computers can be used to search for a particular item by keyword, author, title and subject etc.

 

COM-J LIBRARY RESOURCES CATALOGUE:

A COM-J Library Resources Catalogue of each block is sent from the library email to all students, block faculty, and coordinators at the beginning of every block.

 

LIBRARY MEETING/STUDY ROOM RESERVATION SERVICE:

 

COM-J Library provides this service to all library users to reserve the library meeting rooms for group studies, discussions and meetings. A form can be obtained from the Information Desk.

 

THE LIBRARY ALSO PROVIDES THE FOLLOWING SERVICES:

  • Library orientation
  • Reference management
  • Literature search
  • Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI)
  • Recent Publication Information
  • Computer assistance
  • BestCare, JMP, and EndNote
  • Plagiarism report
  • Multimedia Projector
  • Headphone for Users
  • Updates of New Arrivals
  • Study carrels for individual study
  • Extended hours
  • Proofreading