التطوع في المكتبات الأكاديمية لتلبية احتياجات سوق العمل

Abstract EN

Employment skills can't be effectively developed in the classroom, but volunteer-based training and experience have had an effective impact on instilling employment skills in graduates, increasing their career prospects, and learning how to organize their academic and social life more effectively.

As a result of the volunteer mixing the learning experiences and practical experience resulting from the volunteer tasks in the library, which contributes to the acquisition of many necessary skills needed for learning and work.

In this context, this research aims to study the volunteer program in the academic libraries and its importance in providing the volunteers with the necessary skills to meet the needs of work requirements ,and how they can be used to fill the gap in professionals in academic libraries in order to meet the library's need to provide effective services on and off campus.

The researcher used the descriptive analysis method to study the volunteer program in the academic library at Imam Abdul Rahman bin Faisal University describing qualitatively and quantitatively.

The research community consisted of the volunteers in the academic library - And it was carried out in the academic year 2017/2018.

The total number (34) volunteers, who responded to the search instrument correctly, of (54) volunteers; Up 63% of the total number of volunteers this year.

The results of the study revealed that the highest experience and skills gained during the participation in the library volunteering program were: (Skills of searching for information sources, communication and customer service skills, teamwork skills, social skills and human relations skills) which needed for work.

This study can be considered as a guide to explain the role of academic libraries in in providing volunteers with the practical, scientific and life skills required to meet the needs of the work.

As well as benefiting from them in filling the gap of professionals to improve the services of the academic library in the university.

Finally, the researcher concluded with a set of recommendations and suggestions based on the results of the research.