General Department of Water resources
Libraries A & B of the Department of Water Resources

The general department of water resources has two resource centres called libraries A&B including 20000 national and international bibliographic references.
National publications are located in library A and relate to research works carried out in the framework of the management and use of the country’s water resources : 18000 bibliographic references on following topics :
• Surface hydrology
• hydrogeology
• geology
• climatology
• quality
The stock of documents includes publications on various fields such as soil sciences, water geophysics and chemistry. Library B includes international references and books pertaining to water resources as well as scientific and technical magazines.

Processing
The processing of books is based on the geographical filing of publications with reference to the regions’ topographical codification. The bibliographical description is set according to the international standard on cataloguing (ISBD).
The whole stock is managed automatically in a database via the CDS/ISIS software.

The information is disseminated as selective bibliographies and answers to questions asked by various users ( pupils, students, researchers, public and private companies …).

Documents are for reference use only for all visitors on a written application addressed to the Director General of The Departent of water resources.