American University of Beirut

The University Libraries are committed to making every reasonable effort to provide assistance to AUB users with disabilities. Services include, but are not limited to: assistance with database and online catalog searching, space for studying, and the retrieval of materials. With advance notice, print materials can be magnified and scanned for users with disabilities.

In order to provide the most appropriate service to meet specific needs, the Libraries should be informed of the nature of the disability and the resulting special needs as well as ways of meeting them.

Before heading to the library, users may contact the Reference Desk at Jafet Library by phone on extension 2620/1/9 or by email:  jftref@aub.edu.lb​.

Jafet Library is located behind College Hall—the first building after entering the campus from the Main Gate. Use ground level, main entrance. The ground level includes the Circulation Desk, the Research and Instruction Services Office, the Reference Desk, the Reference Reading Room, the Microfilm Reading Room, a Computer Lab, and several administrative offices. The ground level also includes two elevators: one that provides users with access to the Reserve

Reading Room, Electronic Classroom, and the Restrooms and the other to the Library stacks, the

Archives and Special Collections Department, and the Serials Department.

To get to Jafet Library from the Medical Gate, go in the direction of College Hall.

Before heading to the library, users may contact the Library by phone on extension 2630/3 or by email: englib@aub.edu.lb.

The Library is located on the fourth floor of the Raymond Ghosn Building (RGB) (lower campus). The Library includes the public services desk, the computer lab, and the reading rooms, as well as the book stacks.

To get to the Library:

• ​From the upper campus: take the back stairs of the Jafet Library Building (see directions above), pass the Bechtel Building, turn right to reach RGB. Go up one level using the stairs or the elevator.
• From Ain el Mreisseh (Corniche) side: enter through the Sea Gate (between Hostler Center and the Olayan School of Business), go straight and then turn left before the Bechtel Building, RGB will be on your left.

​Note: the entrance of the building will be a setback for users with disabilities. However, this library is in a temporary location and our new location will be more accessible.

Kindly note that for people who use wheelchairs, the best way to reach the Library is to take the road used by the campus bus; i.e., pass by the Physical Plant Facilities building and turn right, then turn left behind Dar Al-Handassah Shair and Partners Architecture Building, pass the Irani Oxy Engineering Complex and then get to RGB.

Before heading to the library, users may contact the Library by phone on extension 2640/1 or by email:  scilib@aub.edu.lb.

The Library is located on the second floor of the Agriculture Building (lower campus). The Library includes the public service desks at the entrance, in addition to the stacks area (for monographs and journals) and a reading area equipped with computers.

To get to the Library:

Kindly note that for people who use wheelchairs, the best way to reach the Library is to take the road used by the campus bus, i.e., pass the Physical Plant Facilities building then the Bechtel and Hostler buildings, reach the Faculty residence area and turn around the Nutrition Building to get to the Biology Department, use the elevator, pass through the long corridor, turn right, pass a shorter corridor and enter through the Library’s main door. (NOTE that users with special needs will need assistance to pass through the door).

Before heading to the library, users may contact the Library by phone on extension 2916/7/1 or by email: sml@aub.edu.lb.

SML is an Off-Campus facility located between the Campus and the AUBMC, and facing Issam

Fares Hall.  It can easily be reached by users with disabilities.

SML includes:

The University Libraries is aware of the need to improve services to users with disabilities and has drafted future plans which include the following: