تطبيق معايير (إعلم)‎ في المكتبات الجامعية المركزية في إقليم كوردستان-العراق: المكتبة المركزية لجامعة السليمانية أنموذجا

الملخص EN

The research problem is summarized by the absence of awareness of the standards and their role in developing university libraries and achieving quality in information services, the problem of this research is the lack of performance standards in university libraries in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, as well as the absence of a committee at the ministry of higher education and scientific research in the region’s in order to evaluate university libraries according to university libraries performance standards.

the research aims to identify the central university libraries in the Kurdistan region, especially the central library at the university of Sulaymaniyah and to know the extent of its adoption applying performance standards to measure its services.

the first hypothesis of the research proved that many university libraries in the Kurdistan region of Iraq do not apply performance standards, and that the information services they provide are secondment and reference services and they are originally traditional, limited and weak services.

the research results also showed that those libraries do not apply information and communication technologies because of a problem in the client server running the electronic documentation system available in the library.

it also showed that university libraries in the Kurdistan region-Iraq are not subject to an annual evaluation, not from the ministry of higher education and scientific research in the government federal nor by the ministry of higher education and scientific research in the region’s government, in addition to that the budget allocated to the library is weak and not sufficient to cover its requirements, which negatively affected its performance, and this was proven by the second hypothesis of the research.

the research presented a set of suggestions, the most important of 1.

the necessity of having a special directorate for university libraries in the office of the ministry of higher education and scientific research in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, one of its tasks is to supervise and develop university libraries and raise the efficiency of their employees.

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increase the working hours at the central library of the university of Sulaymaniyah to serve the educational process at the university and let the working hours in university libraries start from eight in the morning until eight in the evening.

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university libraries in the Kurdistan region must apply the standards, laws, and legislation of university libraries in a manner consistent with their reality.