1. New faculty orientation
AUB
New faculty orientation
Aida Farha
Medical Librarian
Saab Medical Library
August 18, 2014

2. "Half of what you are taught as medical students will in 10 years have been shown to be wrong. And the trouble is none of your teachers knows which half"
Dr. Sydney Burwell [1956]

3. Tsunami of Information…
Scholarly Literature doubles every 3-5 years.
6500 medical articles published/day
>120,000 STM journals.

4. AUB Libraries Jafet Library (Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences)
Saab Medical Library (SML)
Engineering and Architecture Library
Science and Agriculture Library
Farm Library
AUB Libraries embrace the mission of the University in supporting excellence in education & research and in serving the peoples of the Middle East and beyond.

5. Academic / Research Library
One of the largest academic/research libraries in the Arab world:
Budget: one of the largest in Arab world and larger than most institutions of the same size in the U.S.
Staff: among the largest in Arab world
25 librarians with MS in library or information science (some with PhD or a second master degree)
10 assistants to the librarians
55 support staff plus student assistants

6. Professional Services
Collection
Physical Facility
AUB
Professional Services

7. As a Physical Facility
Group-study rooms / Study carrels / Computer Labs.
Renovation plans…
Jafet Regular Hours:
Mon-Fri 7:30 am - midnight
Sat :00 am - 8:00 pm
Sun 12:00 pm – midnight
106.5 hrs/week …. 24/7 during reading/exams periods
Summer: Jafet/SML close at 9:00 pm
Science/Engineering at 3:00 pm

8. Collection in Numbers
Over 1.3 million volumes of print and electronic monographs and periodicals
Over 140,000 print and electronic journals & conference proceedings
Over 300 databases and hundreds of major reference works
Substantial number of local/regional journals, newspapers, and magazines going back to the late 19th century
1,400 manuscripts (some appraised as museum pieces) and a growing collection of rare books
2,000 maps and 50,000 photographs of unique/historical nature
Missionaries papers; art and political posters, and papers by famous scholars, musicians and artists: e.g. Zaki Nassif…
And open to suggestions from Faculty!

9. Collection: Past vs. Present
Item Type
in 2009
in 2014
Print books purchased
8,000
20,000
Databases* 90
300
Major Reference Works
100
500
eBooks (ownership)
15,000
500,000
Journal packages 14 50
eJournals (access)
49,000
140,000
Journal dig. arch. (# vols)
14,000
400,000
Journal subscriptions
2,643
5,780
Newspapers (Mic. to E)** 20
Primary Sources (DBs) 25
*New databases: expensive, high quality, core titles (e.g., PAO, PQ Central, WoS).
**Examples: Economist, Financial Times, Jerusalem Post, NYT, Times, WSJ, Washington Post.

10. Services for Faculty … (1 of 3)
Borrowing, renewing and returning books:
Up to 100 items for a loan period of one year
Online renewal
Borrowing by proxy
Books can be returned to any library
Recalling books
Ordering new books:
Online form
Automated tracking/notification system
Ordering journals/databases:
Serials and Electronic Resources Librarian

11. Services for Faculty … (2 of 3)
Ordering articles/research material:
Document Delivery and Interlibrary Loan Services (worldwide)
Identifying new acquisitions
E-Reserve or Print Reserve:
Contact Circulation Staff
Subject Specialist Librarians give course-integrated classes or create customized research guides and act as liaisons between the Library and the AUB Faculties

12. Services for Faculty … (3 of 3)
Instruction one-to-one:
Library Tour
Identify resources relevant to your needs
Learn about the quality of the journals and conference proceedings
Know who/which papers cited your work
Citation Management Tools training
Create targeted current awareness
Get help with research at the Reference Desk
In summary, we are professional information specialists that are here to satisfy your information needs 

13. Services for YOUR Students
Instructions either one-to-one or for a group/class
Customized sessions to suit your curricular needs
Thesis clinics
SML’s 2-credit hours course (IDTH 301)
Last year: 500 sessions for 8,000 students
Carrels for your graduate students and research associates
E-Classroom

14. Technology @AUB Libraries
Wireless Internet connection
Four computer labs with 120 state-of-the-art PCs
Networked printing and photocopying services
Remote access available for the great majority of online resources
Computer technicians are available in the libraries during regular hours for troubleshooting (24 hours help desk by phone)

15. Current & Future Plans Upgrade the E-Classroom and renovate SML
Create 2 study rooms (increase seating capacity to 1,000)
Redesign the libraries’ homepages (ASC, Jafet, and SML)
Populate AUB Scholar Works repository with AUB student and faculty publications
Index and digitize major Arabic newspapers, magazines, and journals
Digitize all of the Libraries’ 1,400 manuscripts
Digitize all of the Libraries’ 10,000 pre-1956 Arabic books
Open for YOUR Suggestions 