About the Library

The library of the Faculty of Hydrocarbons and Chemistry opened at the same time as the African Centre for Hydrocarbons and Textiles (CAHT), in 1964. It occupies 1,305.3 m² and seats 400 readers.

Its missions

• Proposing acquisition programmes for academic books and documentation, and building monograph collections matched to the disciplines taught within the faculty.
• Organising the collection using modern processing and classification methods, so as to make resources easier to find.
• Maintaining the collection and keeping its inventory continuously up to date, to guarantee its reliability.
• Providing conditions of use suited to students and teaching staff, for optimal access to information.
• Managing and promoting the collections, within the faculty and beyond, in particular through union catalogues.

Cultural and scientific activities are held there regularly, in collaboration with student organisations and science clubs.

The spaces

• Two reading rooms.
• Staff room.
• Internet room.
• Book store.
• Area set aside for bibliographic research.
• Dissertations room.
• Room for course materials.
• Staff offices.

Opening hours

Hours may change during examination periods and university holidays.

The two services

In accordance with article 31 of the joint ministerial decision of 11 Chaâbane 1425, corresponding to 26 September 2004, setting the administrative organisation of the rectorate, the faculty, the institute, the university annexe and its shared services, the faculty library comprises two services.

Collection management service

It is responsible for building, managing and promoting the collections. It acquires new works according to the needs of readers and of the disciplines taught, handles the bibliographic processing of documents to international standards, and ensures the preservation and availability of the collections. It also promotes documentary resources through union catalogues.

Guidance and bibliographic research service

It supports users in their documentary searches through the SYNGEB database and its OPAC interface. It welcomes and guides users, registers them with the library, handles internal and external lending, registration with the SNDL, access to the Internet room, access authorisations for internal and external libraries, the reception of outside users and the issuing of clearance certificates.