University of  Khartoum
Faculty of Engineering and Architecture
 

Faculty Library

Admission to The Library:  
The library is open to all members of the University. External readers should apply for permission at the Counter.
 
Hours of Opening
  Saturday – Wednesday   7 a.m. – 10.30 p.m. (including period between 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.)
  Thursday                     7 a.m. – 2 p.m.
 

Friday                          8 a.m. – 12 noon

Notice: hours of opening during vacations and public holidays are normally posted in the Library notice board.
 
Regulation:
  No reader is allowed to bring in books, cases, etc. into the reading rooms. Such articles should be deposited on the shelves provided at the entrance hall. All readers as they leave the library  should show at the counter any books, or folders they may be carrying. Readers who wish to use their own textbooks should use the rooms available in their Faculties for such purposes. Library books should be used with great care and should not be marked or damaged in any way.
 
  Readers must not  replace books on the shelves and should leave them on the tables when they have finished with them. Books left on tables by absent readers will be replaced on the shelves and any note books and other belongings will be deposited on the shelves at the counter. Smoking is forbidden inside the library. Silence should be observed in the reading rooms and corridors. Any such misbehavior will be punishable according to library regulation.
 
Borrowing Regulations:
1.
Borrowing for Academic Members of Staff:
Books:
  A member of the academic staff of the University may borrow a maximum of 10 volumes (including Journals and excluding books reserved at the counter).
Periodicals:
  Bound volumes of periodicals should be loaned for one week only.
2. Postgraduates: are allowed to borrow one book only at a time (Excluding books reserved at the counter) after they produce their registration documentation from the respective department and deposits 60 Sudanese pound to be refunded when they finish.
   
  All students and other readers are not allowed to borrow
 

The Catalogues:
There is an author and subject catalogue of all books in the library:

(A) The Author Catalogue

  a- The author catalogue is a record of all books in the library arranged alphabetically by the name of the author
  b- Some books have essay and articles by different authors, and these are record in the catalogue under the name of the editor or under the title of the book. If a book is entered under the name of the editor, often a reference is made under the title.
  c- Some books have essay and articles by different authors, and these are record in the catalogue under the name of the editor or under the title of the book. If a book is entered under the name of the editor, often a reference is made under the title.
  d- Some books have essay and articles by different authors, and these are record in the catalogue under the name of the editor or under the title of the book. If a book is entered under the name of the editor, often a reference is made under the title.
  e- Some books have essay and articles by different authors, and these are record in the catalogue under the name of the editor or under the title of the book. If a book is entered under the name of the editor, often a reference is made under the title.
  f- Some books have essay and articles by different authors, and these are record in the catalogue under the name of the editor or under the title of the book. If a book is entered under the name of the editor, often a reference is made under the title.
  e-  A periodical e.g. Engineering News Record is always entered under its title unless it is the Journal, Proceedings, Transactions etc. of a society, when it will be entered under the name of the society, e.g. “American Society of Civil Engineering Proceedings”.
  f-  Encyclopedias and Dictionaries are usually entered under their title, e.g.
  g- Apart from the books mentioned in part (ii) and a few others not mentioned, the entry is always under the name of the author. Usually it is not enough to know the title of a book; a reader must know who wrote it. The majority of books have been written by one person. All European names as entered under their family name followed by their personal names, e.g. “Stephen Prokopovich Timoshenke appear in the catalogue as: TIMOSHENKO, Stephen Prokopovich”.
  h- If two or three people together have written a book the entry in the catalogue will be under the name of the author that first appears on the title-page. There will also be entries under the names of the other authors. If more than three people have together written the book, the entry will be under the title of the book.
  i- Nowadays many book are written for governments, societies and institutions and these bodies are considered to be the authors. A government publication is entered under the name of the country. The work of an institution such as a University, Museum or Library will be found under the name of the place in which the institution is situated.

          

(B) The Subject Catalogue:

If a reader does not now the name of the author of a book or wishes to know what publication the library has on a particular subject he should use the Subject Catalogue. How to find a book on any subject by using the subject catalogue?
  a- A reader should first look for the subject he wants in the subject index which consists of cards filed in alphabetical order of subject, kept in separate green catalogues.
  b- To note the class mark on the right hand side of the card.
  c- Then turn to the subject catalogue to find the entries under the class marked obtained from the subject index.
  d- The subject catalogue is arranged in the following order: Numerical classes 1-9. Alphabetical classes A to Y.
  e- Under each class mark there is an entry for every book belonging to that subject, so that the whole subject catalogue is in fact a record of every book in the library by subject.

          

Below is a specimen of a catalogue slip

TOWORT, Alan Charles                                  UGH
Atexbook of water supply.     London,

Arnold, 1963.                                        [Eng. 164]
vx, 422p.  illus., plates, maps, plans, Tables, diagrams.

 

The catalogue slip shows the author’s name, the title of the book, place of publication, publisher, number of pages, ..

The symbols on the top right hand corner is the class mark by which the book is located on the library’s shelves. The number on the bottom right hand side i.e. [164] is the accession number given to the book and is the number quoted in filling in the borrowing ticket.

Classification
Each subject or division of a subject is given a classification letter. The table below the principle subjects and divisions with the classification letter against each:

Request For New Books:
Readers wanting books not in the library should fill in special request forms available at the counter. Members of the teaching staff are expected to select and suggest new books in their specific subjects. Requests for journals not already taken by the library should be submitted to the librarian through the department.

Photographic Services:
Readers can place orders for articles from periodicals or other material not available in the library to be obtained in Xerox or microfilm. Application for such material should be made to the serial librarian. A microfilm reader is available in the Main library.

Examination Papers:
The library does not keep examination papers. These can be obtained from the University Bookshop. For the old exam. Papers members of the academic staff are advised to consult the archive of their departments and Faculties

Theses
University of Khartoum theses are deposited in the Sudan Library. They are not available for loan. There is a number of the Faculty of Engineering staff theses kept at the Engineering Liberian office.

General Instructions:
1. If you looked the catalogue for a certain book and you found that it has a slip in the catalogue but you couldn’t trace it on the shelves, then there are several probabilities:  


(One)  that somebody may be using the book at that moment, so you have to refer to the shelve once again after a while or you may have a look at the books on the tables awaiting shelving.

(Two) That the book may be borrowed and in this case you have to contact the staff in charge of the counter, who will check to make sure that the book is borrowed and who will then contact the borrower and request him to return the book.

(Three)     That the book may have been wrongly shelved, or missing, and in this case you also have to contact the library staff in charge of the counter who will then fill a missing book card to make thorough search for the book later and will contact you if he finds it.

3.      The Faculty of Engineering Library is an “open library”, i.e. readers can go through its collection freely and take the books they are interested to see. This will help the readers to acquaint themselves in a better way with the library collections. Thus, they can select for themselves what suit them. This is contrary to what is called “closed library” which keeps its collection in closed shelves and readers can consult the catalogue only to select books they are interested in. Therefore, readers should avail themselves of the opportunity to see the section they are interested in.

4.      Books and New Additions are displayed on a special “Display shelve” before they are finally placed on library shelves. Therefore, readers are advised to see the “display shelves” to acquaint themselves with new books added to the library.