Library

The Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands (ACSAD) has sought, since almost half a century, to unify the Arab efforts for the purpose of developing scientific researches in arid and semi-arid areas with fragile agricultural systems, and exchanging expertise in a way that allows benefiting from scientific progress and modern agricultural techniques transfer and development to increase agricultural production in Arab countries.  .

The task of ACSAD is reflected in facing the challenges imposed by these environments through the provision of advanced scientific data and techniques, in a way that allows the optimal use of renewable natural resources in arid areas and contributes to the achievement of sustainable agricultural development.

Led by its belief in the necessity of activating Arab research cooperation, ACSAD has worked on providing the necessary infrastructure for that, including the library of ACSAD, which performs its role in serving scientific researches and development through providing documented research and knowledge services by collecting, processing, saving and disseminating all documents and information and making them available for researchers and those who are interested, whether in soft copy or in hard copy.

The library contains a number of books, studies, projects, bulletins, reports and refereed and non-refereed journals that were issued by the specialized departments of ACSAD, in addition to a number of specialized scientific studies, researches and journals issued by agricultural research centers and international organizations that are concerned with agricultural sector. The library’s references are constantly updated, and the efforts are always exerted to provide specialized scientific references and develop the library’s interactive website with the aim of providing and loading a number of reference titles in PDF format for those who are interested.

The library welcomes its visitors of researchers, professors, graduate studies students, university students and those who are interested during the days of the week, except Friday, Saturday and official holidays, from 9.00 a.m. to 2.30 p.m.