The library takes up the
responsibility of collecting, cataloguing, safekeeping and lending original references in
the form of books, sources, and periodicals. And since the center is founded on research
and studies, the library contains around 4500 books and references.
The library classifies and evaluates primary and secondary scientific
sources of knowledge that includes publications and documents, and prepares various kinds
of data for those who need them. It also provides researchers with adequate assistance
that facilitates their familiarization with the latest publications of international
publishing companies and institutions, as well as aiding researchers in situations where
scientific or technical data is available in a language other than their native one, along
with improving the methods of research relating to this section’s kinds of information
in accordance with the center’s needs and requirements, such as acquiring the ability to
collect and store documents and data, besides safekeeping the publications issued by
numerous research centers .
Moreover, professors and researchers contribute to providing the library with the
researches and projects that they conduct and with various publications pertaining to
scientific research. The center’s library contacts and coordinates its effort with other
libraries inside and outside the Great Jamahiriya, and takes part in different book
exhibitions, provides information services, prepares books and publications for those who
need them, and undertakes the task of performing secondary publications such as indexing,
documentation of the information that arises from scientific and intellectual symposiums
held in the center in order to benefit from it when necessary.