Library
Opening hours
Sunday through Thursday 8:30-18:00 during the school year.
For summer hours - call library
Tel: 972-3-5318962
From Sunday 29.5.2022 to Sunday 31.07.2022 the library will be open:
Sunday - Wednesday: 8:30-20:00
Thursday: 8:30-18:00
Location
The Suissa Life Sciences Building (212), 1st floor, room 113
When the Library is closed books may be returned to the designated box near the entrance of the Chemistry Library (room 103).
Library staff
Library Director: David Gordon
Email: david.gordon@biu.ac.il
Ph.: 03-5318308
Ph.: 03-5317664
Librarian: Petrov Irina
Email: petrov.irina@biu.ac.il
Ph.: 03-5318308
Ph.: 03-5318962
Assistant librarian: Alon Tavor
Email: alon.tavor@biu.ac.il
Ph.: 03-5318962
The Library Collection
The library is located in the Life Sciences Building, and encompasses half of the first floor. The library contains textbooks for use by undergraduate students and a large collection (400 titles) of scientific journals for research use by M.Sc. and Ph.D. students, staff and research personnel.
Catalogs and Indexes
Online catalog (PRIMO) - through which may be located all the books in the library, both Hebrew and English. Searches may be made by author, title, subject and any work made by author, title, subject and any word from these fields. The computer program is used by all institutes of higher education in Israel.
Electronic resources (books, academic articles, review articles, scientific conference reports, research reports and more) can be found via electronic databases.
For more information (in Hebrew).
- Smoking, eating or drinking are not allowed in the library.
- Students are required to maintain quiet in the library.
- Cellular phones must be turned off before entering the library.
- A detailed list of instructions on the use of the library is available. Disregard of these instructions and inappropriate behavior will be considered an infringement of these rules, and will be brought to the attention of the Dean of the Life Science Faculty.
- The librarians are authorized to ask any student who is behaving improperly to leave the library.
CD-ROMs
MEDLINE 1983.
LIFE SCIENCES 1990.
Both of these are on the internal network of Bar Ilan.
JOURNAL CITATION REPORTS (SCIENCE) - stand alone station 1994.
