Ministry of Water Resources & Irrigation - Central Library

The goal of the library!

Central Library works such as the heart and pulsating artery, which supplies the researcher science and knowledge through sound deliver information at the right time for the right person with the aim of increasing the efficiency of the performance of informational service for the readers and researchers, taking into account the technological development in the performance of its mission.

Groups central library

Central Library of the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation works specializes in assembling all forms of information sources (books - Technical Reports - scientific conferences - scientific references - scientific periodicals - Yearbooks - technical bulletins ) in various forms of physical (prints and paper - Videos - CDs (CD -ROM - DVD) - Film segments - electronic files)

The library has the more than 40000 pot information in various branches of knowledge, where it offers its services to all employees in the ministry (researchers - engineers double major - professionals - administrators)

The library boasts a lot of vessels information of historical value which is considered rare and important reference for researchers in the field of water resources and irrigation in Egypt and the Arab world and Africa.

The Library is working to keep up with scientific and technological development in conjunction with the ministry of all libraries via the Internet.

Library and ties!

Central Library integrative function between them and the libraries of all the different sectors of the ministry in terms of providing a specialized service to workers, wherever the ministry was the site of their own work (even Jlaep of Alexandria and Falttin) using the property of entanglement among all the libraries of the various sectors.

So the library permanently work protocols of cooperation between local and international bodies working in the same field, where she in 2003 in collaboration with the National Network for Information of the Academy of scientific and technological research to take advantage of the rules of scientific data and information Egyptian.

And also have been the work of a protocol of cooperation between the Library of Congress American branch of the Cairo exchange, gifting where you get the library on the professional tool for the Library of Congress (User Groups Subject Headings for the U.S. Library of Congress)

Central library and heritage of the Egyptian Irrigation

Includes the central library a lot of Albums and Atlases and scientific references ancient most important historical works of Mnchaouat Irrigation Egyptian history , which the ministry (public works) like a book Description of Egypt and owls opening of the Suez Canal and stages set up barrages Mohamed Ali (Qanater ElKharia - Barrage Edfina - Barrage Assiut - Barrage Nag Hammadi - Esna Barrage - Aswan Dam) the establishment of the High Dam - pumping stations - Silos - canals and aqueducts - projects implemented Upper Nile.

and this group of more than ten thousand Photo - map - Engineering Drawing and located in more than five hundred albums and Library seeks to revive this heritage by converting it to digital images of high quality to take advantage of them.

Services Central Library, which seeks to be submitted to Manma scientific research :

Find a program in the library with the ability to search on the internet.

Web search & central library holdings.

Internal and external borrowing and lending between libraries. Library Loan & Inter-library Loan.

Find in global databases Search on International databases.

Service imaging and printing and scanner.

Photocopying, Printing & Scanning.

Current awareness service Current Awareness.

Selective service broadcasts for information selective dissemination information.

Library and information production

The Central Library to cover scientific conferences, which oversees the ministry to set up and is working to prepare bibliographies objectivity, which covers topics such conferences to maximize the benefit Gentlemen Albahthein of library services in the preparation of research papers on the subject of the conference.