دور المكتبة الجامعية الجزائرية في إرساء قواعد النظام الوطني للمعلومات

Abstract

We face today a huge scientific revolution, where the information plays an important role in the achievement of progress, particularly after the development and the great expansion of new information technology and the appearance of information networks, all that has obliged societies to adopt national strategies and information plans known as national information systems in order to control the information explosion on the level of collecting, processing, transmitting, access facilitation and security to provide accurate and up-to-date information in a short time, with less efforts and less costs,. This has generated the participation of all the elements of the information sector to set up the basic infrastructure for constituting the national information system. The University library, as an important element in the basic infrastructure information, faces today more than never before deep changes on the level of its functions, principles and methods in order to assure the task of developing an information system, with advanced information services, with efficient material resources and high human abilities, using new information technology with high proficiency and less costs through a mutual coordination and cooperation between different information institutions to exchange information in order to realise an ideal exploitation of the libraries’ collections via the use of unified standards and common instruments of work, so that this library can be considered as a major pillar in establishing the national information system. Through this research, we intend to emphasize the place of the Algerian university library in the establishment of the national information system. The result of a survey led in GUELMA university libraries through a questionnaire an interview and observation helped us to collect significant data analysed on the basis of recent valuable theoretical knowledge. This investigation has led to identify the limits of our university libraries in terms of equipment, financial resources, qualified human resources, collections, information services… that failure in its functions and missions has not helped these libraries to succeed in establishing a national information system