Deanship of Library Affairs
Transcript of Deanship of Library Affairs
Organizer :
Saudi Digital Library and Deanship of Library
Affairs
Presenter : Eng. Mohammed KahalehIslamic University - Deanship of Library Affairs
In this Presentation
1. Introduction to information databases.
2. About SDL.
3. SDL Portal and Services.
4. Skills of searching.
5. Using of Islamic University e-library
Saudi Digital Library, is the largest gathering of
academic sources of information in the Arab world,
with more than 262 thousand scientific reference,
covering all academic disciplines, and the continuous
updating of the content; which achieves cognitive huge
accumulation in the long run.
Vision
Build a huge and sophisticated digital library in a
variety of disciplines to support the educational
process and to meet the needs of beneficiaries in
institutions of higher education in Saudi Arabia.
The Message
Organize and provide access of electronic
information sources, and facilitate access to them by
members of the faculty, researchers, students and
professionals working in higher education institutions
in Saudi Arabia through the searching electronic
uniform interface.
العدد المحتوى
239 Information Databases
30 Publishers
3000000 English thesis
262000 Books
147000 Scientific journals
43000 Arabic Books
12000 Arabic thesis
What is Skills of searching?
It is skills used by the researcher in the
search engines to reach the results that are
needed as soon as possible. It is means ,the
steps undertaken by the researcher and
what are the strategies and tools used, and
any terms choose to configure the search
words.
Why this skills ?
• The magnitude of what is published in the digital environment.
• Diversity of sources and different forms .
• Ways to search for information in the digital environment is different from the traditional environment.
Advanced Search
Is an advanced search interface enables the researcher to identify the author and publisher and the required language, or the period of time covered in his wants, or the type of material that you wish to retrieve the file Word or PowerPoint, or PDF format PDF or Excel and others.
Truncation is used in the event of search words that are similar in the first letters but have different endings, such as a teacher, school etc. .., we find the use of this process when searching in English than Arabic.
The most used research tools with an asterisk (*) at the end of the word to denote a section on the use of truncation process to reach all possible endings of a word or words that are similar in the first section.
Truncation:
E-Library Contains information about all books, thesis, manuscript, materials that is in Islamic university libraries, it is very useful for students and researcher to collect and obtain all needed materials from libraries.
Use this URL : http://library.iu.edu.sa/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/0/0/0/49
www.sdl.edu.saFor more Information about SDL
And you can contact me : Eng.Mohammed KAHALEH Symphony System Administrator at Islamic University - Deanship of Library AffairsTel: 0544337830 Email: [email protected]