Welcome Note

From BUE CMS

Welcome note by the Librarian

I would like to welcome all new and returning students to BUE Library and to wish you a happy and successful new academic year. My staff and I will be glad to help you all we can to gain maximum benefit from using the Library, so I hope that if you meet with a problem when looking for a book you need or in using an electronic database you will come and ask us about it.

Like the University itself, the Library is fairly new and is still growing. Its physical bookstock has increased rapidly during the previous years and we also provide access to over 60,000 titles electronically through our subscription to Ebrary & Springer. You’ll see much more growth and development during your time in the University, including the opening of a state-of-the-art new Library building in academic year 2011/2012. The Library’s bookstock is organized by subject on the shelves and you’ll soon find your way around it. If you look up a book in our catalogue you will be told its classification number (we use the Dewey Decimal scheme in which all books have a three digit number such as 542 or 689, usually followed by a decimal point and further numbers to indicate their subject).

As well as printed books and journals the Library subscribes to a growing number of electronic databases which contain e-versions of many thousands of journals and books. Staff will be glad to help you to identify and use the e-resources that you need for your studies and training sessions will be held regularly on how to use the databases most effectively. Such training will be timetabled as part of your study programme and it will help you to succeed in your course if you attend.

We look forward to meeting you in the library very soon.

Tarek Mehrem

University Librarian