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Librarian Services Office
This office, enjoys experienced and specialized staff, undertakes to order, provide, organize, and render information of the complex of the Central Library and its affiliated libraries. At present, this unit has been formed of three sections:

1) The Section of Ordering, Providing and Making Ready Book (Materials):
The differnt processes of ordering, providing and making ready the articles of the Central Library, and affiliated libraries of the Astan Quds Razavi are accomplished and centered in this section. Providing articles is accomplished through three ways:
Purchasing, dedicating and granting.

A: Purchasing:
Before ordering and purchasing the sources, samples of the newly-published titles, despatched to this section by agents, are delivered to the members of the selection committe consisting of the representatives of interior departments of the Central Library and affiliated libraries to determine their requirements.
Then, this section will purchase books according to the requirements of this committe.

B: Granting:
Many of the books preserved in the Central Library, have been granted by the compilers, generous people (different classes of society), the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, and other governmental, and non-governmental organizations.
After comparing this kind of books with the index of the present collection, it is decided to allocate them to the libraries or to other departments which need books.
If the granted books are repetitive ones, and the Central Library and related centers do not need them, they would be granted to the cultural institutions which need books.

C: Dedicating
In the case of endowed books, basis for action depends on the recommendation of devotees. Therefore, considering the endowment deeds related to these books, the Organization of the Library of Astan Quds Razavi exploits from these books in the best way according to its regulations. All the books received are despatched to the index section after being registered.

2) Index Section:
This section, enjoying specialized experts in the fields of Persian, Arabic, English, and other current languages of the world, undertakes to organize and classify books according to the system of D.U.E decimal classification, in order to accede the applicants easily and rapidly to the requested sources. Because of the computer facilities, traditional method of indexing has been abandoned and substituted by the advanced automatic system. This substitution has accelerated accomplishing the affairs, and has increased the amount of carefulness.

3) Mechanical Services Section:
The main activities of this section, are accomplished through two units, as follows:
A) The Unit of Supporting the Library Net
B) Information Unit:
Granting information services to the applicants (including the information of the library complex), and also through CDs is the main duty of this unit. At present the system of the library under the Novell Net, is active through its 137 stations, and almost covers all other sections of the library.
Information Unit of the Library, provides and gathers various CDs in the fields of Islamic learnings and sciences, reference books including various dictionaries and encyclopedias, and Iranology sources, is granting services to the researchers and students of universities.

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