Our library is a unit that provides all kinds of information and resource support and services to the academic and administrative staff and students of our university, especially our faculty, in their education-training activities, research-development activities and thesis studies.
Our library has been in the service of users since the 1995-1996 academic year. The first books, both purchased and donated, were recorded in a short time. Our library continued to provide service by developing further in the following period. For this purpose, our faculty's esteemed professors donated books. Many books were purchased with the support of both our Rectorate and Dean's Office. In addition, many books were obtained through donations from Türkiye and abroad. Finally, our faculty library has been further enriched with the donation of the personal libraries of Prof. Dr. Yusuf Kenan Haspolat, one of the retired faculty members of Dicle University Faculty of Medicine, and Zeynel Abidin Çiçek, one of the well-known mullahs of the region. The number of books donated to our library so far is 1831.
Our library, which is located in the faculty building and has two separate research and study halls, has a large number of source materials, dictionaries, periodicals, encyclopedias and theses in fields such as history, geography, sociology, philosophy, ethics, rhetoric and biography, especially basic Islamic sciences such as tafsir, hadith, fiqh, theology and Sufism. The library keeps a digital record of all of these materials with the Yordam Library Automation Program, and these records can be followed and used over the internet by those interested thanks to the program, which is connected to the central Ali Emîrî library of our university. Therefore, the academic and administrative staff and students of our university can benefit from all the materials registered in our library and borrow them from our library. Students and researchers outside our university are allowed to scan and examine the works and resources registered in our library and to take photocopies of the requested material, but they cannot borrow any material.
The total number of materials in different languages in our library is 21412. Of these, 19824 are books, 1392 are theses in various categories (undergraduate, graduate and doctoral) and 196 are periodicals of various types. Of the 19824 books, 14131 are in Turkish, 5151 in Arabic, 265 in Ottoman Turkish, 71 in Kurdish, 54 in English, 40 in Persian, 25 in German, 21 in French and 66 in other languages. The materials in our library are classified and recorded according to the Dewey Decimal Classification System in accordance with their subjects.
Externally, our library has two air-conditioned reading and study rooms, and there are also 12 desks, 2 computers and 3 air conditioners inside the library. One of these computers is used by the library staff and the other is used by the readers.
Our library is affiliated to the Ali Emîrî Central Library of our university and has an agreement with other university libraries and can lend books to its users. The university has an inter-library loan system. Therefore, books and other materials that are not available in the libraries within the university but are available in other contracted university libraries can be obtained through interlibrary loan.
Academic and administrative staff, doctoral and graduate students can benefit from the service provided in this way. Our library is affiliated to the Ali Emîrî Central Library of our university and has an agreement with other university libraries and can provide borrowed books to its users. Therefore, books and other materials that are not available in the libraries within the university but are available in other contracted university libraries can be obtained through interlibrary loan. Academic and administrative staff, doctoral and graduate students can benefit from the service provided in this way.
The users of our library can utilize the materials for various periods and numbers. Accordingly, academic staff can borrow 10 materials for 30 days, administrative staff and graduate students can borrow 6 materials for 21 days, and undergraduate students can borrow 3 materials for 15 days. Our library provides service to its users between 08.00-17.00, which are working hours on weekdays at all times.
You can visit the link below to access the material records of our library, which uses a common database with Dicle University: Ali Emîrî Central Library