الخلاصة:
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
