The central library of UMBB is located halfway between the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (formerly INELEC) and the Algerian Petroleum Institute (IAP). It was inaugurated by the President of the Republic in October 2004. The library’s purpose is to offer its users—students, teaching staff, and researchers from M’Hamed Bougara University, among others—the best study and research conditions in a calm and pleasant environment. The library also serves as a space for national and international scientific, technical, and cultural conferences, as well as any activities contributing to the development of education and scientific research at UMBB.
The library has a website; its first version was created in 2004.
Mission
The missions of the central library are mentioned in the inter-ministerial decree of August 24, 2004, setting the administrative organization of the rectorate, faculty, institute, university branch, and its common services (Section 3, Article 21):
The central university library has the following missions:
- To propose, in coordination with the faculties’ and institutes’ libraries, the acquisition programs for academic books and documentation.
- To maintain the file of postgraduate theses and dissertations.
- To organize the central library’s documentary collection using the most modern methods of processing and classification.
- To assist the heads of faculties’ and institutes’ libraries in managing the structures under their authority.
- To maintain the central library’s documentary collection and constantly update its inventory.
- To establish appropriate conditions for the use of the documentary collection by students and teachers.
- To assist teachers and students in their bibliographic research.
Services Offered
- Automatic bibliographic research
- Access to catalogs
- Internal and external lending
- Access to electronic resources
- Access to Open Archives (university’s scientific production)
- Library user training
- Guided tours of different services
- Selective information dissemination
- Remote request for scientific articles
- Internet access (available WIFI)
- Access to collective workspaces
- Access to individual spaces
- Organization of scientific and cultural events
- Access to the library’s interactive services on the BU website
Library Statistics
- Surface area: 3384 square meters
- 1000 seating places distributed among
- 04 reading rooms
- 01 reading space
- 01 basement book repository
- 01 conference room
- 01 E-learning room
- 01 Department of English documentation center
Documentary Collection
- Number of titles: 46,902
- Number of copies: 136,401
- Number of titles in Arabic: 15,979
- Number of titles in English: 4,615
- Number of titles in French: 26,207
Library Opening Hours
- Sunday to Thursday: 8:00 AM to 10:00 PM Saturday: 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
- Daily opening duration (hours): 14 hours
- Weekly opening duration (hours): 77 hours
Other
- Staff: 70 employees, including
- 19 librarians (29%)
- 23,000 loan transactions per year
- Number of accesses to SNDL (National Online Documentation System): 3,336
- Dspace, UMBB’s open archives platform: 10 962 titles
- Doctoral theses and Master’s dissertations Engineering and Master 2 final projects
- Conference proceedings
- Scientific publications and research articles.
English 
French 
Arabic