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PERSONAL DATA
Full Name
Date of Birth
Citizenship
Address
Resident
Gender
Marital Status
No. Dependents
Driving License
Contact
Email Address
Fouad Talaat Mohamed Fouad Afify
April 26, 1977.
Egyptian
Cairo, Egypt
Al Jouf, Saudi Arabia
Male
Married
3
Yes
+966 56 97 94 138
fouad_afify@hotmail.com
OBJECTIVE
Librarian Position with Twelve years of progressive experience, management skills and training to promote and
implement the Library Operations and Information Services, including Reference, Instruction and collection
development as established by the profession.
CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS
Promotion:
- Promoted from Medical Library Supervisor position (which serving three colleges) to the University Central Library
Supervisor (which serving ten colleges) within four months.
Supervision:
- Nominated as a Medical Library Supervisor from the Deanship of Library Affairs.
- Implemented new policy and procedures for the medical – central library to enhance the library's services,
collections, programs and curriculum support.
- Oversee the technical processing, including cataloging, classification, labeling and shelving.
- Managed the Continue Education programs for staff and volunteer/training students (25 persons).
- Managed and developed the Medical Library's Academic Portal content (Ac-Knowledge) with high-level of references
and Information.
- Oversaw the relocating of Health Sciences Library to the new building and redesigned the space to increase the
capacity 200%.
Foundation:
- Founder and Executive Member of the Medical Library Committee.
- Established the digital library department with its facilities.
- Created and developed the strategic plan of the medical library for three years (2013-2015), which is responsive and
conforms to the medical college’s mission, goals, and objectives.
Participation:
- Nominated as an active member in the faculty’s quality and assessment unit for the academic accreditation of the
Learning Resources.
- Nominated to represent the Deanship of Library Affairs in the regional Book Fair (Year 2013).
- Participated in internal and external meetings to coordinate the medical library's goals and objectives with those of
the faculty/university.
- Participated member in the scholarly activities (Journal Club, Medical Research and Education Unit).
- Participated member in the college of medicine's Examination Unit, to apply the new technologies and provide
resources of question banks.
- Attended conferences, workshops, seminars, and classes to maintain knowledge of changing technologies and
developments in the health care and information industries.
Training / Teaching Experience:
- Literature Searching using Library Portal and E-Resources, Lecturer, (120 Hours/Year).
- Coordinated and performed library instruction and orientation to new students (800 Students/Year).
- Trained Staff on circulation module in the Integrated Library management system "Symphony".
- Trained and supervised students in their final year's research project on the library collections, using the online
public access catalog and evaluating the resources available in each subject (56 Hours/Month).
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EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts, Library and Information Science Department.
May 1999
Cairo University – Cairo, Egypt.
WORK HISTORY
Information Services Librarian
Information Resources Specialist
Technical / Educational Resources Librarian
Senior Librarian Officer
Senior Librarian
Medical Librarian
Medical Information specialist
Al Jouf University, KSA
Hail University, KSA
AAS-Naseej, Egypt
NTI-MOHP, Egypt
UCB, Bahrain
AAFH, KSA
EFCS, Egypt
June 13 – Present
May 10 – Jun 13
Feb 08 – May10
Dec 04 – Jun 07
Jan 04 – Oct 04
Aug 02 – Jan 04
Dec 01 – Aug 02
FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION
- Extensive management skills, purchasing and organizing various volumes of academic, hospital-medical, military and
research institute libraries.
- Proficient in Library Instruction and Information Literacy Programs by designing, developing and conducting
innovative training sessions, lectures, workshops and development programs from scratch.
- Proficient in all aspects of online information resources; such as, ProQuest, EBSCO, Pubmed, Web of Knowledge,
UpToDate, BMJ and etc.
- Working experience in various library management systems; such as, (Virtua “VTLS”, Horizon, Symphony ”SirsiDynix",
A-LIS, Mandarin, KOHA and etc.) plus Digital Repositories and RFID Systems.
- Experience with online citing reference managers, online serials/resources management, OpenURL Link Resolver;
such as, SFX, Summon, Muse and EZProxy.
- Hands-on experience with Library 2.0 Technologies, Open Sources-Integrated Library Systems, virtual learning
solutions, Digitization, Metadata, Open Access, and LibGuides.
- Versed in international cataloging standards; such as, Anglo-American Cataloging Rules (AACR2), RDA, National
Library of Medicine Subject Headings (MeSH), cataloging tools and techniques; such as, MARC 21, Z39.50 Protocol
and (Dewey, LOC, NLM) classifications.
- Strong background in medical terminology.
- Master in online searching solutions; such as, federated, advanced search and discovery solutions.
- Working experience/training in different countries (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain).
- Deep knowledge in all types of reference resources in a variety of formats, print and online.
- Experienced in handling and organizing conferences.
- Efficient user of Microsoft Windows, Office Suite, Adobe solutions, graphic software and computer applications.
CURRENT POSITION
Information Services / Instructor Librarian
June2013-Present
On behalf of Arabian Advanced Systems-Naseej for Deanship of Libraries Affairs, Al Jouf University, Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia.
Responsibilities
- Manage daily operations of the Medical Library; including reference, interlibrary loan, and technical services, in
addition to supervise 8 employees and 11 volunteer students.
- Involved in the Library’s information literacy program by coordinating, designing and delivering course-related
instruction in key biomedical databases, and open access.
- Provide guidance in usage of reference, technology equipment, software, databases, and OPAC.
- Participate in scholarly activities and develop good relationships and communicate effectively with the entire
university community.
- Assist students in their projects/assignments with particular training sessions to meet their research needs.
- Provide library orientation tours for new faculty, staff, students and visitors.
- Planned the policy and procedures, strategic plan and redesigning the library space.
- Evaluate and develop the library printed collections, online resources, programs and curriculum support.
- Prepare continuing reports on the library and information community to be published in the University's Journal.
- Create, schedule and distribute Monthly calendar of workshops, training and events.
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- Maintains an up-to-date awareness of the latest print and electronic information resources available and
communicates these to faculty, staff and students.
- Represent the Medical Library on the college accreditation and quality improvement committees.
- Coordinate and develop the Library’s online presence.
- Respond to information, knowledge resources and workshop requests.
- Manage and oversee the circulation desk transactions.
- Coordinate the technical issues regarding online resources with IT staff as well as troubleshooting access problems.
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
Information Resources Specialist
May2010-June 2013
On behalf of Arabian Advanced Systems-Naseej for College of Medicine and Applied Medical Sciences, University of
Hail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Responsibilities
Managing library operations and services
- Responsible for the day to day management of electronic resources through Faculty’s library Portal (Ac-Knowledge)
and enabling appropriate display of resources to ensure consistent, integrated and user friendly access.
- Updating and maintaining A to Z list of e-resources (e-journals, e-books, e-textbooks, and online databases) on
Faculty’s library portal.
- Develop and manage the information resources to meet the academic community’s needs.
- Prepare regular reports on library resources and activities to ensure its supporting the educational process.
- Maintain inventories, compile statistics and generate reports as on regular bases and/or as required.
Effective learning and information services
- Conduct regular Training session for staff/students to effectively use the Library Portal, available resources and
searching techniques.
- Provide the current awareness and selective dissemination of information services.
- Assist students in their projects/assignments with particular training sessions to meet their research needs.
- Respond to information, knowledge resources and workshop requests.
- Provide an interlibrary loan (ILL) service for online materials.
- Maintain with publishers regarding their trial access, textbooks evaluation and instructor access to ancillary’s
materials.
- Handle circulation desk transactions (Check in and check out materials).
- Collaborate with the deanship of library affairs in developing and evaluating the online resources, individual journal
titles and new suggestions.
- Participating member in scholarly activities (journal club, medical research and education unit).
- Participating member in the faculty’s quality and assessment unit for academic accreditation.
- Coordinate with various resource vendors for regular schedule training sessions.
- Arranging regular visits with local, international publisher representatives to demonstrate updates.
Building library collections
- Plan needed library material based on surveys.
- Coordinate and participate in building the library book collections.
- Order library materials and maintain records for payment of invoices.
- Development and evaluate library online/printed collections.
Technical support
- Maintain with vendors regarding access to ensure troubleshooting issues are promptly addressed and resolved.
- Coordinate and monitor the electronic resource product life cycles through trial, evaluation, purchase and renewal
to ensure compliance and well-functioning.
- Oversee and manage the technical issues regarding online resources with IT staff as well as troubleshooting access
problems.
- Maintain all contacts and license records to ensure a well-organized database is in place.
- Solving all troubleshoot problems with the computers, network, printers.
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Technical / Educational Resources Librarian
Febuary2008-May2010
Arabian Advanced Systems-Naseej, Cairo, Egypt.
Responsibilities
- Developing the national web portal (MAWHIBA) for the King Abdul Aziz and His Companions Foundation for the
Gifted through cataloging, classifying and maintenance all format of (Books, Serials, Articles, Conferences and Thesis)
according to (AACR2) cataloging rules, Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) and List of Arabic Subject Headings.
- Updating and developing the academic web portal project (Ac-Knowledge) of the Qassim University by providing
scientific information for each college from multiple databases; such as, (EBSCO, Ovid, ProQuest, IEEE, Wilson, ERIC,
Stat!Ref, Gale, Wiley, Ebrary and IGI Global).
- Providing written guidance (English / Arabic) tips on how to search available databases.
- Technical Indexing for journal articles for the offsite cataloging department for the Arabic Union Catalog.
Senior Librarian Officer
National Training Institute-Ministry Of Health and Population (MOHP), Cairo, Egypt.
December2004– June2007
Responsibilities and activities
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Manage daily operations of the Medical Library, including reference and technical services.
Represent the medical library in the official (local/international) visits or meetings.
Develop goals and objectives, policies and procedures.
Managing the Inter-Library Loan service via the (WHO) and (DocLine) through their online network systems.
Install, evaluate and update the electronic library system (KOHA).
Maintain and update library collections using the automated library system (KOHA).
Implement and evaluate the digital library.
Make recommendations for capital improvements.
Provide expert advice to other staff and community.
Lecturer in performing electronic Search, using right strategy of multiple databases; such as, (PubMed, PopLine,
Cochrane and UpToDate).
Subscribe with journal publishers and vendors for online access.
Provide training and evaluate assigned staff.
Provide the current awareness and selective dissemination of information services.
Define problems and develop solutions.
Prepare reports, write grant proposals and set priorities.
Provide reference, reader's guidance and assist in making effective use of library facilities.
Senior Librarian
January2004 – October2004
On behalf of Edutech Middle East W.L.L. Company, for University College Bahrain (Canadian University), Kingdom of
Bahrain.
Responsibilities and activities
- Ordering library equipment and materials.
- Building library collections by ordering titles relevant to curricula and university academic research.
- Ensuring that online databases subscriptions are done effectively.
- Contact national and international publishers and vendors to receive their catalogs.
- Provide reference assistance to students, staff and faculty members.
- Perform search literature for staff and faculty.
- Provide orientation tours for new students and faculty members.
Cataloging
- Cataloging Library’s collection electronically through the Virtua System (VTLS) using the Library of Congress (LOC)
Classification and importing Bibliographic records from libraries using (Z39.50 protocol), ensuring that the records
meet national bibliographic standards.
- Ensuring that all library holding are properly indexed and classified.
- Keep statistics of materials cataloged.
- Prepare lists of new books for the students and faculty members.
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Acquisition
- Handling purchase process of books and journals. (e.g.) selection of materials, ordering, processing of library
materials, registering, invoicing of items, and creating bibliographic records for the library holdings.
- Prepare purchase order and Receive invoices for new Items and prepare the items for Cataloging.
Circulation
- Handle circulation desk transactions (Check in and check out materials).
- Handle requests from students.
- Establish faculty reserve collections each semester as needed.
- Send out all over-due book notices.
Information Services
- Provide reference and research assistance to library users by locating appropriate sources of information in response
to specific information needs, through Internet, Computer and other manual processes including appropriate
interpretation of the user’s query.
- Assist users in using Internet, OPAC and Electronic databases.
Medical Librarian
August2002 - January2004
AL-Hada Armed Forces Hospital, Ta’if, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Responsibilities and tasks
- Handling the acquisition procedures.
- Ordering, receiving, checking and evaluating publications.
- Keeping contact with different publishers to receive their free publications.
- Classifying and Cataloging all types of Library holdings
- (Books, Journals, Articles, Video Tapes, and Cassettes) by using National Library of Medicine Plan (NLM) and Medical
Subject Heading (MeSH).
- Answering inquiries through the Interviews, Phone calls and E-mails.
- Help Physicians to achieve their power point Presentations.
- Manage and handling the circulation, Photocopy and Shelving processes.
- Lecturer in Evidence Based Medicine Course and Electronic Search Literature.
- Solving troubleshoot problems with the Computers, Network, Printers, copiers and scanners.
- Secretarial works for Education and Training Department.
- Assistant in Audio-Visual Department.
Medical Information specialist
December2001 – August2002
Egyptian Fertility Care Society (EFCS), Cairo, Egypt
Managing and organizing all the library operations:
- Lecturer in POPLINE training course offered by (EFCS) in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University.
- Participated member in handling and organizing all national medical conferences at EFCS held in collaboration with
PathFinder International (PFI) and Family Health International. (FHI).
- Document Delivery Services through available online databases, international institutions, universities and internet.
- Technical support for library electronic system CDS, Win/ISIS.
Trainee, The Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC) Library - Egyptian Cabinet.
- Information desk duties and answering queries.
- Books and periodicals selection.
- Periodicals and books inventory.
- Technical Processing (acquisition, circulation, cataloging).
- Using Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) and LOC subject Headings.
- Using library automated system (ALIS).
Trainee, Faculty of Agriculture library, Cairo University
- Periodicals and books inventory.
- How to use Library manual catalog.
- Cataloging, Circulation and Acquisition.
- Information Services and administration issues.
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October1999 – Febuary2000
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Trainee, Mubarak Public Library, Cairo, Egypt
- Administration skills.
- How to use ALIF -Library Automation System.
- Information services and activities.
1997
PERSONAL SKILLS
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Proficient in demonstrations and presentations.
Excellent organizational, interpersonal and communication skills.
Ability to work independently and as member of a team in a dynamic multi-cultural environment.
Ability to multitask and manage multiple projects with strong attention to details.
Certificate of excellence for establishing electronic Bibliographic Database (Graduation Project).
Analytical, problem solving, and decision making skills.
Work under stress and demanding deadlines.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Web skills, including use of Library/Web 2.0 technologies.
- Information gathering and conducting Internet search skills.
- Keen in various library software and management systems and its network support server/client (MySQL, Apache,
Pearl, PHP)
- Extensive experiences with library management system modules (cataloging, acquisitions, searching, circulation and
OPAC).
- Conversant with Library policies, procedures, methods, ethics and professional standards.
- Knowledge in vendors and suppliers in the local and international markets for all library materials.
- Versed in OCLC cataloging system.
- Basic Network Debugging, web languages (HTML, PHP, XML) and File Transfer Protocol (FTP) applications.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
- Arabic Native language
- English V. Good "speaking, reading and writing"
TRAINING COURSES & WORKSHOPS
MD Consult - Clinical Key, KSA
Offered by Elsevier.
2013
ProQuest, KSA
Offered by ProQuest.
2013
OvidSP, KSA
Offered by Ovid-Lippincott.
2012
BMJ Best Practice, KSA
Offered by BMJ training Team.
2012
Wiley Online Library, KSA
Offered by Wiley training Team.
2012
Online Medical Databases, KSA
EBSCO Collections, ProQuest Collections, Access Medicine, MD Consult, UpToDate and Springer Offered by
Saudi Digital Library in collaboration with Ministry of Higher Education.
2011
MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging ), Egypt
Offered by Information and Libraries Specialist Network.
2006
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Virtua (Automated library system), UAE
Offered by Edutech Middle East Company in collaboration with VTLS Inc.
- Introduction to Virtua Library Management System.
- System Architecture.
- Acquisition, Cataloging, Serials, Circulation and OPAC modules.
- Reporting system overview.
2004
EBM (Evidence Based Medicine) & (Cochrane library), Egypt
Workshop for librarian offered by Egyptian Fertility Care Society and Family Health International.
2002
WHO Reproductive Health Library, Egypt
Workshop for librarian offered by Egyptian Fertility Care Society and Family Health International.
2002
POPLINE, Egypt
Workshop for librarian offered by Egyptian Fertility Care Society and Family Health International.
2002
Graphic Design, Egypt
Offered by Cairo Governorate in Collaboration with the Ministry of Communications and Information
Technology.
2001
Secretarial Course, Egypt
Offered by Cairo Governorate in Collaboration with the Ministry of Communications and Information
Technology.
2000
Information Technology, Egypt
Cairo University.
2000
AFFILIATION
 Egyptian Association for Libraries, Information Science and Archives.
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