The library of the Faculty of Natural and Life Sciences was created during the 2004-2005 academic year. Since then, it has been supplied with works from different national and international publishing houses and has never stopped develop throughout the academic years to this day.

Indeed, the faculty library currently contains a considerable collection of (various books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, end-of-study project dissertations "PFE", as well as doctoral theses), it has 8250 reference works in the two languages, French and English distributed as follows:

• 2356 books
• 5894 between PFE manuscripts and theses

The library is supplied by purchase from different publishing houses and by deposits of PFE manuscripts and theses in everything relating to biotechnology, biology, food sciences and agronomy.

Automatic processing of library documents is ensured using the regulatory library management system: SYNGEB (standardized library management system), developed by CERIST. This by following the steps of sequential documentation, and the application of scientific techniques as well as library standards for processing works.

The library occupies the center of the faculty and is built from:

• Ground floor, with:

• Book storage shelf space
• Research room
• Internet room (Distance learning)
• Reading room for teachers and doctoral students
• Technical Operations Department

• One floor, with:
  • Manager's office
  • Student reading room
  • Reading room for teachers and doctoral students

The library offers its services to students, teachers and researchers affiliated with the faculty as well as those coming from other universities within the framework of exchange and cooperation between libraries and documentation institutions.

• Administration:

The manager's office is located upstairs near the reading room, she supervises the operation of all technical services in the library.

• Technical services :

1. Technical processing department: it takes care of the processing of the scientific and intellectual content of the collection as well as any technical operation concerning it, such as registration, classification, cataloging, manual and any inventory and supervision operation.

-Book ordering (selection of documentary needs in collaboration with teachers).

-Issuance of discharges.

1. Digitization service: it takes care of the processing of the scientific and intellectual content of the collection as well as any technical operation concerning it, such as recording, classification and cataloging, using, according to the regulations, the SYNGEB, this system allows the librarian to carry out any technical operation by automation.

1. Loan bank: this service includes different referential contents which constitute the library collections, and it is the duty of each actor in this service to achieve the expected objectives, including mainly, helping students and researchers in approaching loan techniques. search for information and references, for current librarian use, and facilitate their access to documentation with little effort and above all in a short period of time.

• Reading room reserved for students:

Located on the floor above the loan bank, proximity for the benefit of students facilitates their access to the different parts. It occupies this reading room with an area of ​​600m² containing 40 tables, which gives a capacity of 250 people, students use it for their presentations, reading and revision.

• Teachers' reading room and post-graduation:

Two rooms dedicated to teachers and post-graduation, one on the ground floor and the other upstairs. The library allows this category to consult magisterial and doctoral theses. The two rooms have a total of ten tables with a capacity of 60 people.

Library documentary research resources:

The documentary research is done by computer, on digital summaries using the OPAC software.

Loan conditions :

Documents can be borrowed from the library by student card as follows:

Extensions:

It is possible to extend the borrowing of a document by making a request to library staff. This extension will be done according to the conditions defined by the establishment.

For access to the various library services:

Students and teachers affiliated with the faculty are asked to show their card and respect the library's internal regulations.

Students external to the faculty must show their student card and have authorization to visit the SNV faculty library

External teachers are required to show their professional card.