The Administrative Unit University’s libraries are among the most important bases of scientific and academic environment. Their goals and apostolates are in the vein of realizing the goals and apostolates of the university. This alignment in goals and apostolates has increased the increased the importance of the library as no university can be evaluated as a successful and efficient unit without having efficient laboratories. Obviously, in order to reach the goals and fulfill intended tasks and make sure of a proper and efficient method, the library must consist of essential and competent directorial and administrative sections. From the organizational perspective, the central library and information center of Ferdowsi university of Mashhad is running under the commission of the research and technology deputy of the university. This unit is in charge of linking massive librarian plans and policies with general plannings such as buying from exhibitions, dividing the budget and making decision regarding the librarian activities at the university..

Some of the activities carried out at the administrative unit of the library are listed below:

- 1.Planning and keeping in view the process of works, budget, well accomplishing of all affairs and activities’ progress in different sections of the library

- 2.Developing policies, compiling, reviewing and correcting operational instructions and prioritizing issuing instructions and monitoring it being well accomplished. .

- 3.Holding periodic professional and administrative meetings

- 4.Issuing the necessary commands to coordinate different units of the library .

- 5.Organizing activities related to division of labor, setting duties and responsibilities and authorities of units under the supervision.

- 6.Taking part in various commissions, seminars, committees and meetings and preparing essential reports to inform the superior official. .

- 7.Taking necessary counsels to improve the current affairs

- 8.Supervising the execution of annual evaluation affairs of staff

- 9.Cooperating in education, research affairs and research issues in occupation

- 10.Monitoring staff’s education in association with the related officials

     11.Monitoring the execution of the client’s tribute plan and dealing with the probable complaints occasionally.

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Some of the activities of this section have been accounted briefly below:

• Providing in-person and non-in-person information services to clients
• Teaching information literacy including educational classes, educational tours and individual training
• Preparing guidelines, handbooks and educational packages
• Training apprentices
• Joining the central library’s electronic resources supply committee
• Managing and supporting the central library’s website
• Selectively distributing the information and current informing services via publishing electronic newsletter and tag it on the central library’s website, etc

Note: Above services are provided for clients from outside the university based on the tariff determined on the beginning of each year and verified by headship of the library

The growth of each library relies on providing continuous, proper and updated services. Hence, each library’s position is defined by the quality and quantity of services and how to provide them to the users’ society.

In the case of importance and position of the lending unit we should know that the figure and embodiment of all activities and efforts in other sections of the library are solidified and manifested in lending unit.

The lending unit of the central library and information center of Ferdowsi university of Mashhad serves more than 30 thousand members with more than 180 thousand issues of Persian books and over than 85 thousand Latin books. The book repository is open shelve and the client can have access to resources freely. Books’ arrangement on shelves is based on topic and is based on the congress’ rating. .

For clients’ optimized use of the lending unit, some points have to be mentioned:

• Books are only lent by providing “Student ID card”.
• Extending the books is possible by the members themselves via referring to the portal (student/faculty/staff).
• The books’ returning time can be ascertained via the portal.
• The penalty of each day of delay in returning the books is 1000 Rials.
• The penalty of each day of delay in returning the reserved books is 5000 Rials.
• The “reserved books” are not extendable.
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The respectful members lease examines your book lending card by referring to the portal-the library tab- the lending option. Obviously, the library has no responsibility on penalty and delays.

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