Central Library

The books are classified with DDC number anddivided into ten groups as following:
000 - 099 : General Knowledge
100 - 199 : Philosophy and psychology

200 - 299 : Religion

02/11/2021

The Central Library, National University of
Laos provides innovative information services
which:* focus on client service* anticipate and respond to client needs andare integrated with and Central to the University’s
teaching, learning and research activities.

300 - 399 : Social Sciences
400 - 499 : Languages
500 - 599 : Pure Sciences
600 - 699 : Applied Sciences
700 - 799 : The Arts

800 - 899 : Literature
900 - 999 : Geography, History & Travel- Central libraries have placed computers on each floor tosearch for books, texts, and magazines.
-You can search by typing key words into the box .
-If you want to find the author, title, category, or other .
and clicking on the search box.

The main objectives of Central Library are tobuild up adequate information resources in supportof the University facilities and develop the capabilities to serve information needs in the fields coveredby the National University.

UCL provides lecturer, staff, students andcommunity information, enabling the NationalUniversity of Laos to achieve its mission in teaching, learning, research and community service.

Central Library

02/11/2021

The Central Library was established in 1996
and comprises of 3 Directors, 3 Departments and7 Units as follows:1.

Lending service

2.

Internet & Electronic databases service

Directors:

3.
4.

Journals & Newspapers service
Audiovisual service ( CD, CD-ROM, Video, VCD)

1.

One Director

5.

2.

Two Deputy Directors

Gender Resource Information & Development,
Human Trafficking, Child Right, World Bank
InfoSpace, European Union, ASEAN Information

Departments:
1.
2.
3.

& Lao-Thai friendship Corners.

Academic Department.
Information Service Department.
Library Resource Department.

Units:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

Library Technical Department Unit
IT & Audio visual Aids Unit
Service Unit
Newspaper-Journals Unit
Personnel , Finance & Secretarial UnitManage property Unit
NUOL’s Historical Collections
7.

Items

Quantity

Local

Total

32,636 titles 17,002 number
57,071
number

Journals
Newspapers

1,110
number
5,969
numberNewsletters

17 titles

6.

Meeting Room & Group Discussion Room.

7.

Reference service.

8.

Library Training service .

9.

Magazines & Newspapers subscription service .

10.

Repairing & Binding books service.

11.

Theses service.

12.

Digital service.

13.

Library tour service.

Central Library is using PMB program to store its
collections, library’s membership, circulation andprovides Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) for
searching for needed textbooks.
DSpace: Digital library is used for Searching for theses,

Dissertations, Reports and Science journal of NOUL thatservethrough Internet .Library website is:www.library.nuol.edu.la and also Electronic journals
Databases are also provided by the University Central Library such as Cambridge Journals Online. Directory ofOpen AccessJournals, INASP Directory of online –Journals and Databases, Wikipedia – The free Encyclopedia, INASP Guide to Open Access Resources, andAGORA: Access to Global Online Research inAgriculture and other databases.

For Internal members:• Membership/Id•

External••

40,069number•923 number

187 number

5,088
number881 number

10 titles

7 titlesOPENING HOURS:

Monday-Friday: From 8:30 AM - 16:00 PM
Saturday - Sunday: From 9:00 AM - 14:00 PM
Wednesday afternoon closed
CONTACT: Library.nuol.edu.la ; Facebook.com/nuollib
Tel and Fax: (856) 021 770937•cards must be shown before

borrowing books.
Can borrow up to 5 books/time for students /7 days.
Can borrow up to 7 books/time for teachers /7 days
Textbooks and other documents must be returned bythe date.
All library memberships will borrow books throughelectronic gate.
Overdue will be fined a thousand Kip per day/book .

• Reference books, theses, state publication and the

red label books not allow to borrow out.