Departmental Library Annual Report

Library of University has a great impact on the student and the staff member as well; it provides a lot of information on what are available of references, thereof the library is considered a crucial and vital corner among other corners in the educational process. From this prospective, the departmental library has been established along with the foundation  of Chemical Department in 1975, and through the years it is grown gradually and steadily steps till it is now contains more than 5000 books in chemical engineering and other scientific fields which are directly related to the chemical engineering. Every year the library add enough number of newly and updated references from book exhibitions that organized by the Iraq's Universities or by direct buying from the local agents' international editorial publishers. The quantity of books are mainly depend on the amount of fund the Department and the University will reserved for this purpose and finally there is the donation channel to enhance the library with new boos and references. In addition to aforementioned, the library includes many important and distinct references and encyclopedias in engineering, and science fields and particularly the chemical engineering field, some are the following;

1.  Kirk Othmer: Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, 24 Volumes.

2. Considine; Chemical and Process Technology Encyclopedia.

3. McGraw-Hill; Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 15 Volumes.

4. Bever; Encyclopedia of Material Science and Engineering, 8 Volumes.

The library includes also Ph.D., M.Sc. and diploma theses that accomplished in the Department since its establishing and till nowadays beside to other donated theses from other Universities and the ones donated from some staff members and researchers which reached around 400 theses. Also the library subscribed with a number of engineering and scientific journals, on particular the ones issued at the different Iraqis Colleges and Universities. The library runs by permanent librarian committee which nominate its nominee at the beginning of each year, according to executive order which is executively rule out by the Scientific Deputy of the Department. This committee will be consist of 4 academic staff members and the 2 librarians and it held its meeting periodically to discuss everything that related to the management of the library. The president of the librarian committee since 2007 is Assist. Prof. Dr. Issam Kamel Salih.

You could have a glance to the most updated references that included in the library by login to the site of the library of the chemical engineering department.