Guide for New and Visiting Faculty

Earth Sciences Library
The Library is located on the ground floor of the Earth Sciences Building.
Library hours: S-Th: 10:00-18:45; August until beginning of school year: 9:00 – 15:30 Tel.
6584687; Fax: 6585959: Web site: http://earth.es.huji.ac.il/~eslib/main.htm
The Muriel and Philip I. Berman National Medical Library
This, the largest medical library in the Middle East, is housed in the Hebrew University-
Hadassah Medical School, and has a collection of 500,000 volumes and 1,400 current
periodicals. Its electronic information retrieval system allows online searching of all academic
libraries in Israel which operate on the ALEPH network. The Library is also linked to the
central communications Internet network for international and local information exchange. It
has four databases on a CD-ROM LAN (Local Area Network) which allows access by all
faculty.
Library hours: S-Th: 8:30-19:45; F: 8:30-12:45. Tel.: 6758795; Fax: 6757106 or 6758376;
E-mail: libinfo@mdlib.huji.ac.il; Web site: http://library.md.huji.ac.il/
The Hadassah Mount Scopus Medical Library
The Hadassah - Mt. Scopus Driesman Medical Library serves the staff, faculty, researchers,
students and official guests of the Hadassah Hospitals and the Hebrew University. The
Library is affiliated with the Muriel and Philip Berman National Medical Library in Ein Kerem.
The collection is cataloged as a subset with the Berman’s ALEPH catalog. Electronic
resources include a large part of the Hebrew University’s Berman Library web resources.
The periodical collection is listed under the library code “HDSC” in the Union List of Serials
http://libnet.ac.il/~libnet/uls. There are currently about 4,000 books and 40 current print
subscriptions.
Library hours: S-Th 8:00-16:00. Tel.: 5844644, 5844677; Fax: 5822411; E-mail:
mslib@hadassah.org.il Website: http://library.md.huji.ac.il/scopusmedlib/index.htm
The Library of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences Science
Housed in the Kennedy-Leigh Library Building at the Faculty of Agricultural, Food and
Environmental Quality Sciences in Rehovot. It is the primary agriculture library in Israel, and
one of the libraries of the Library Authority of the Hebrew University. It serves staff and
students of the Faculty and researchers and agriculturists throughout Israel. The Library has
a branch in the Koret School of Veterinary Medicine: the Lubetzky-Americus Library of
Veterinary Medicine, which serves the staff and students of the Koret School of Veterinary
Medicine, Kimron Veterinary Institute and Faculty of Agriculture, as well as veterinary and
human clinicians.
The Library’s collection covers the subjects studied and researched at the Faculty: animal
science, plant sciences, genetics, microbiology, agricultural economics, nutrition and food
sciences, hotel management, veterinary medicine, and biotechnology. The collection consists
of some 250,000 volumes, 140,000 scientific documents and 3,200 periodicals. A great
percentage of the journals are in electronic format. Library patrons have access to dozens of
databases. The catalog is fully computerized with the ALEPH 500 Integrated Library System,
and connected to other university libraries in Israel.
Library hours: S-Th 9:00-19:45 during academic year, and 9:00 – 17:45 during summer
vacation. Tel: (08) 9489269; Fax: (08)9361348.
Web site: http://www.agri.huji.ac.il/library/menu.html E-mail: gurman@agri.huji.ac.il
OTHER MAJOR UNIVERSITY UNITS
The Computation Authority
(The Authority for Computation, Communication and Information)
All university campuses in Israel are linked via the academic WAN (Wide Area Network),
which is based on connections among LANs (Local Area Networks). The WAN is part of the
worldwide BITNET data transfer network. The research applications afforded by this system
include access to data and computers outside Israel; graphic computerized representation