The Aranne Library

The Aranne Library was the first university facility to open on the Marcus Family Campus in 1973. It has grown to become a regional and university center for information and research, serving the BGU faculty, students, and staff, as well as the entire Israeli academic/research population.

This open-stack library houses a collection of approximately 950,000 bound volumes and over 10,000 periodicals, with these numbers increasing annually. Serving as a Central Library, the reading rooms on each of the 5 floors hold the collections relevant to a specific faculty: Social Sciences, Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Engineering Sciences. The Reference and Reserved collections are on the main entrance floor.

The library’s special collections include an audio-visual collection with microfiche, microfilms and videotapes; research reports and theses; a reserved book collection; an art collection; a rare books room, with rare Judaica and Islamica; the Personal Archives of Israeli authors Amos Oz and Aharon Appelfeld; and the Tuviahu Archive of Beer Sheva and the Negev.

Each floor includes separate areas designated for group-work and for quiet, individual study. There are machines for self-service book-borrowing and inexpensive photocopying self-service on the entrance floor. Library computers, conveniently spread throughout the building, offer access both to local and national collections via the “Aleph” academic/research network, and to the library’s internet website, providing access to international databases and search engines. An increasing number of full-text journal articles can be accessed online and then emailed, downloaded, or printed.

In addition to the professional librarians, who serve the public in each reading room and in the main Reference Department, the Aranne Library offers required and elective courses to students on the use of the library and its computer systems.

For further information, visit the website: www.bgu.ac.il/aranne

The Faculty of Health Sciences-Soroka Medical Library

The Faculty of Health Sciences Medical Library is located on the grounds of the Soroka Medical Center, which is across the street from BGU's Marcus campus. The library serves the university and medical center communities, as well as health professionals from the entire region.

The library's collection includes books, periodicals, and digital media, and offers access to online clinical and research materials in the fields of interest to the students and staff of the Faculty of Health Sciences and the medical center.

The library is divided into two sections. One houses the open-shelf book collection and public services such as the reference desk, the self-service checkout machine, photocopy facilities, and a group study area. The second section is dedicated to self-study, the periodical collection, and other special collections such as theses, books of pretests, and the bioethics collection. The library has ample computer station access to internet, all university computer services and databases including distance learning and full-text e-journals, as well as word- and data-processing software. The library also provides wireless communication for readers with personal laptop computers. Other services such as interlibrary loan and individual help with information retrieval are also available.  

For further information, visit the website: 

http://sorokalib.bgu.ac.il/NewSite/eng/

The J. Schapiro Library - Sde Boker Campus

The Sde Boker Campus is located south of Beer Sheva, adjoining Kibbutz Sde Boker. The J. Schapiro Library collection includes books, periodicals, reports, maps and special publications on desert research and all related fields of interest.

For further information, visit the website: www.bgu.ac.il/BIDR/library/index.html

The Ben-Gurion Research Institute Library - Sde Boker Campus

The Ben-Gurion Research Library, also located at the Sde Boker Campus, contains over 35,000 books and journals in such fields as Zionism, history of Israel, the Zionist Labor Movement, immigration, settlement, and history of Israeli politics, as well as a collection of every book and over 21,000 articles by and about David Ben-Gurion. The library has a large selection of articles and journals from the 1920s to the present on the above and other relevant topics.

For further information, visit the website: