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Within the continuous development king Khalid University witness in developing the understructure of Libraries Affairs Deanship to provide researchers and visitors with supportive services, the 2^nd stage of archiving, joining and preparing King Khalid University libraries project was included within the budget of current year( 1,500,000 SR). The project aims at updating understructure to cope up with era needs, increase the service quality and to pave the road to researchers to reach knowledge sources easily which will contribute in thrusting scientific research in the university. Also, it will enable the university employees to search the library contents without visiting it.

Dr. Saed Al-Khaldi, Libraries Affairs Dean stated that the university sub libraries will witness during the current year various developing projects that cost more than 1,200,000 SR and all sub libraries will be joined electronically to the central one to enable the researchers in the province to benefit the services submitted by all university libraries.

His Excellency pointed at the central library at Al-Gryger which contains more than 100,000 titles and linked electronically to 52 international databases which include millions of Arabic and foreign titles. Next year 1433/1434 AH, The library was provided with about 7500 materials: Arabic and foreign books, academic periodicals and dissertations. The increased number in borrowing books from the library proved the effective role it plays in providing researchers and readers with books they may need; borrowing processes exceeded last year 38,000 for 75,316 book.

It is worth mentioning that the university libraries  offer services not only for the university students or employees but also for student who don’t belong to it besides other persons from the society.