Our Library

An overview on what we have and what we offer

Believing in the role of cultural development and scientific at achieving human development success, and motivate the company's employees to acquire books that might have a positive impact reflected raised on the support and development of human resources of the company and to increase and improve production, was the creation of " Alexandrina Petroleum Company's Library".

APC Library

Library Goals

  • Spreading and deepening the culture among the different categories of the company workers.
  • Reliance on open shelves for easy access to the holdings of the Library.
  • Objective Classification is prevalent in the library.
  • Keening on disposal of stagnant and damaged cultural materials and replaced with modern versions on an ongoing basis.
  • Participating in the ongoing events and interacting with them.
Library Numbers

Library in numbers

  • Start Year: 1973
  • Place: in Financial Management Building, Ground Floor.
  • Area: 120 square meters, consists of 2 halls for viewing, and 35 columns containing more than 13,000 books.

Beside The "public library", The library Management includes 9 sub specialized libraries distributed in most of the general managements of the company such as ( The Technology & Development -Lab- Information Technology - National Security - Financial Department - Engineering Inspection - Engineering Affairs - Legal Affairs - Training.)

Library Services

Services provided

Counseling & Guidance

The work team helps the library staff to search for topics of interest to each worker.

Bibliographic Search

By displaying the available sources in the library for a topic or one of the authors.

Ongoing Briefing

Display lists of the recently aquired acquisitions to the library through leaflets and brochures.

Collections Development

Updated and developing the library collections depending on the written and approved policy that meets the needs of the individual employees of the company and are consistent with the goals of the library.

Outer Lending

Worker can borrow any of the library's collections of books or periodicals according to the rules of the library.

Cultural Activities

The role of the library is not limited to the provision of books or information sources only, but also extends to include the concerns of the different cultural activities which are designed to meet the needs of the workers and develop their abilities, such as:

  • The religious Cultural competition for Ramadan, where there is a public withdrawal for the names of the winners to deliver the awards in a special ceremony held in the training sector.
  • Issuing monthly cultural newsletter, which includes a number of topics in various cultural, scientific and religious fields.
  • Chooseing the ideal reader of regularly visitor workers to the library throughout the year, and honoring them throughout a special ceremony to distribute religious cultural competition awards .
  • The establishment of the company's annual book exhibition in collaboration with major publishing houses.
  • Visit International Book Fair in Cairo to provide the library with the latest cultural materials in various fields.

What We Offer

The library offers different things to its members such as:

Library Shelves

Wrote in specialized scientific fields, such as chemical engineering, industrial security, oil and energy technology, and natural gas, civil engineering, engineering, inspection and maintenance, automatic control and electricity, Materials Science, Computer Science, Medical Science, Management Science, Accounting and Economics, language education (Arabic-English - French), psychology and the meeting, the law.

The specialized scientific fields also includes its own set of folders with technical data of the compound bounced oils

  • Data book for oil complex
  • Basic engineer for oil complex
  • References, knowledge circles, scientific encyclopedias, dictionaries and high value linguistic heritage books
  • Religious, political and literary cultural materials, and women and child books, and newspapers.