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 Welcome to A.M.Al-Refai Library


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Gulf University for Science & Technology's Library was established in 2002 to serve the University's faculty, staff, students, and alumni. On June 20, 2006, the Library was renamed the  Abdullah Mubarak Al-Refai (A.M.Al-Refai) Library in honor of the late Dr.Abdullah Mubarak Al-Refai, President from 2003-2005.

Mission

The mission of the A. M. Al-Refai Library is to provide quality, user-focused services, and resources in all formats (print/electronic) that respond to and enrich the informational needs and activities (teaching, learning, and research) of faculty, staff, students, and alumni.
 


 


Vision

The vision of the Library, as determined by faculty, staff, students, and alumni is to provide learning resources and information services dedicated to support the University's mission of learning, research, and services. The vision reflects the University's commitment to ensuring high standards of quality and to support innovation in providing information access.

Values

  • Open Access

  • Excellence

  • Education and Lifelong Learning

  • Growth and Innovation

  • Community Service

  • Open Communication

Goals

The A. M. Al-Refai Library goals are to:

    • Provide an organized and readily accessible collection of information resources relevant to teaching, research, creative activities, and professional needs of the academic community

    • Provide sufficient space for study and use of information resources in an atmosphere that is conducive to study and research

    • Provide timely bibliographic access to Library resources

    • Provide effective instructional support for users to locate and retrieve information resources and services that develops skills for life-long learning

    • Foster a forward-thinking, dynamic Library organization that is flexible and responsive to user needs in achieving the University's mission and goals

    • Encourage and enable users to become life-long retrievers, evaluators, and users of information

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Collection

The A. M. Al-Refai Library supports a curriculum-oriented collection containing books, e-books, journals, e-journals, audiovisual materials, and bibliographic/full-text databases. The collection has a primary commitment to supporting the University's degree program requirements.

The collection is divided into two categories:

  • Digital Resources
  • Print Resources

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Digital Resources

eJournals: The Library provides more than 52,000 scholarly journals (including open access titles) in digital format. The collection supports core curriculum degree requirements, general education, and elective courses. The collection provides full text coverage for academic areas of study, including the social sciences, fine arts, humanities, education, computer science, accounting, finance, business management, and economics. 

eBooks: The Library subscribes to over 52,000 ebooks from Springer, ebrary, and Safari Online. The collection includes ebooks, ereference works, lecture notes, and book series covering various disciplines. 

Databases: The Library subscribes to bibliographic and full-text databases including SAGE Humanities and Social Sciences Collection, Taylor & Francis Collection, ScienceDirect (Business & Economics collection), ABI/INFORM Global, Encyclopaedia of Islam - Second and Third Editions, Encyclopaedia of The Qur'ān, Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures, Index Islamicus, ACM Digital Library, IEEE Computer Society Digital Library, Business Source Premier, Academic Search Premier, ERIC, Computers & Applied Sciences Complete, SocIndex, Regional Business News, AACE Digital Library, AccessScience, LexisNexis, JSTOR, and Communication and Mass Media Complete.

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Print Resources

Books: The Library has a growing collection of over 10,500 book titles. Books are classified according to the Library of Congress (LC) classification system.

Reserve Collection: The reserve collection includes items designated by faculty for course use as well as core books requiring limited circulation.  Reserve books are accessible at the Library circulation desk.

Reference Collection: The reference collection is comprised of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauruses, atlases, almanacs, handbooks, manuals, and other fundamental sources of information.  The reference collection is for use only within the Library.

Periodicals/Journals: The Library presently subscribes to 60 periodical/journal titles in print format.  The collection is arranged alphabetically and is located in the periodical area of the Library.

Audiovisual: The audiovisual collection consists of over 710 videos, audio-cassettes, CDs, and DVDs.  The CD and DVD collection is available only for Library use.

Special Collection: The special collection comprises Islamic banking & finance, Arabic books, Gulf heritage, theses, and dissertations. As part of the Library's special collection, the Library provides American Corner, Chinese Corner and Spanish Corner collections supported by the United States, Chinese, and Spanish Embassies in Kuwait.

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News
Welcome to the New Library Facilities!!!

Database Adoption SAGE Humanities & Social Sciences Collecion and Taylor & Francis Collection have been added to the existing database collection.

GUST's 1st Spanish Cultural Day
Gulf University for Science and Technology (GUST),  in co-operation with the Cultural Section of the Spanish Embassy of Kuwait, held its 1st Spanish Cultural Day on Thursday, December 10th at 11:00 am.


Mrs. Shobhita Kohli, Library Director(GUST), had the distinct honor of accompanying a delegation of librarians to the Republic of South Africa through the People-to-People Ambassador program

MuseFirst Federated Search Introduced!!

A.M. Al-Refai Library is pleased to announce that MuseFirst Federated Search has been added to the existing services of the Library. MuseFirst Federated Search enables users to search multiple e-resources simultaneously through one search query.


EZProxy single sign-on access introduced!!
A.M.Al-Refai Library is pleased to announce the introduction of EZProxy Access, a Single Sign-On Service to access the Library electronic resources from remote locations.


The “Fifth GUST Annual Book and Information Fair” was held on Monday, 20 April, 2009, in the Library.

Databases Trial
Trial has been setup to access EconLit, RefWorks, and SpringerLink Journal Core Collection.


Information Literacy: The Library provides training and instruction in skills related to locating, evaluating, and using information resources of all types. We offer group, or one-on-one training on topics of the requester's choice. Interested patrons must register at least a day prior to the session at the library.
 

 
 

EZproxy® Remote Access
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