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Occupational safety and health in storage procedures of information resources: a case study on the new central library of Cairo University

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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This study aims at: identifying hazards of storing information resources in
libraries and information centers which affect occupational safety and health,
evaluating the procedures to overcome and prevent them and planning the
correct procedures, with the aim of increasing librarians' knowledge about these
hazards and the scientific manners for detecting and preventing them, whether
individual or in groups.
The study followed "The Case Study Method", depending on "A Chick
List" which applied in the new central library of Cairo University as a model of
Arabian libraries.
The main findings of this research: there were several hazards in storage
procedures of information resources, which badly effect on occupational safety
and health, caused by: occupational safety and health administration,
construction hazards, physical hazards, biological hazards, fire hazards, storage
procedures hazards and individual hazards. Hence the study recommended a
number of scientific manners for detecting and preventing these hazards, more
over librarians should put and unify written standards and laws to protect library
employee and its surrounding environment from all hazards

DOI

10.21608/ijlis.2018.69433

Keywords

information resources, new central library

Authors

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Hamed

MiddleName

Gaber

Affiliation

Department Of Library and Information Science-Faculty of Arts Aswan University

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5

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2

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9749

Issue Date

2018-04-01

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2020-01-29

Publish Date

2018-04-01

Page Start

98

Page End

132

Print ISSN

2356-8003

Online ISSN

2735-3931

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IJLIS_Volume 5_Issue 2_Pages 98-132.pdf

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International Journal of Library and Information Sciences

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Occupational safety and health in storage procedures of information resources: a case study on the new central library of Cairo University

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22 Jan 2023