OTHER BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES:

The Medical Library:

The Medical Library, located on the grounds of the Soroka University Medical Center, houses books, periodicals, electronic databases and audio-visual materials in all fields of medicine.  For information on library hours and services, please see the Medical Library homepage.To search the Medical Library collection, click here. For direct access to the Medical Library catalog from the Aranne Library homepage, click on  "BGU Libraries' Catalogs".  

Telephone: 08-6400517
E-mail: medlib@bgu.ac.il
Medical Library Director: Tiran Ezra-Hames

 

The Ben-Gurion Research Institute Library (“Moreshet”):

The Ben-Gurion Research Institute Library, located at S'de Boqer, contains over 35,000 books in the fields of Zionism, the history and politics of the Yishuv, the Zionist Labor Movement, the Arab-Israeli conflict, immigration and settlement, and literature.  The library also has a large selection of articles and journals from 1920 to the present.  The collection includes every book and over 21,000 articles by and about David Ben-Gurion, in Hebrew and other languages. Thousands of articles, speeches and letters from books, newspapers, and journals have been indexed in the library's computerized Ben-Gurion Database.  For information on library hours and services and to search the Institute's Ben-Gurion Database, please see the Institute Library homepage.  To search the Institute's book catalog, click here.  The book catalog and the Ben-Gurion Database can be accessed from the Aranne Library homepage; click on "BGU Libraries' Catalogs".

Telephone: 08-6596944
E-mail: sifmor@bgu.ac.il
Head Librarian:  Ms. Lili Adar

 

 The Ben-Gurion Archives Online:

The Ben-Gurion Archives Online at the Ben-Gurion Heritage Institute and Research Center is a state-of-the-art computer project based on instant electronic recall of valuable documentation safeguarded in the Institute’s Archives at S'de-Boker. The archives, whose legal status is derived from the Ben-Gurion Memorial Act passed by the Knesset in 1976, are a branch of the Israel National Archives. Today they house more than three million pages of documents, including rare and unique items such as Ben-Gurion's personal diaries which cover over fifty years of his dynamic career in the Labor Movement, Mapai (his political party), the Jewish Agency, and the State of Israel. The archives also contain Ben-Gurion's letters, speeches, and articles, as well as protocols and correspondence from organizations and committees with which he was involved. Over 500,000 pages of text have been scanned, digitized and stored in the database as electronic records, text and images.  For further information on the Ben-Gurion Archives Online and to search their database, click here.

Telephone: 08-6596946
E-mail: archive@bgu.ac.il
Head of the Ben-Gurion Archives Online: Neli Oren

 

 

The Jane Schapiro Library:

The Jane Schapiro Library of the Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, S'de Boqer, was established in 1979 in order to answer the needs of the Institute's research staff.  The library's collection includes books, periodicals, reports, maps and special publications in all aspects of desert research, e.g., ecology, botany, agriculture, zoology, architecture, anthropology. For further information, please see the Jane Schapiro Library homepage.

Telephone:  08-6596712
Fax: 08-6596887
E-mail: libboker@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
Librarian-in-charge: Helen Feuermann

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