The Musical Library offers services like:

1- Listening to the Arabic and international heritage on recorded tapes and discs.
Moreover, the library has engraved copper discs dated to the 19th century and international musics such as Opera Ayda… etc, these copper discs is working with a special instrument which belongs to the same period, in addition to a group of encyclopedias, Arabic and Foreign musical notes.

2- The Library provides to the users the service of reading the indexes of the other research libraries of the National Library through the same computer available for listening.

3- The National Library obliges all the publishers of cassette tapes to deposit ten copies of each work in the musical library, according to the deposit law issued in 1968, and its modifications in 1992, and the ministerial decree of execution of this law on February 1996. The library forbids, according to the law, in all cases copying of any musical work or song.

4- The library copies the Audio material on compact discs, one by one, then this Audio material should be transferred to the hard disc.

5- Photocopying papers for the users of the library is a service provided by the library.

6- The library has also a museum of the rare musical instruments.

The project of the electronic musical library (Audio-Tech):

This library has been based on the most international modern systems (Audio-Tech). Listening is available through 50 computers sets in the Library, all the listening materials are stored, that enables the users to recall any musical work and listen to it. In the same time, the computer has an index of the titles of books, musical notes, singers, composers, writers, musicians and the publishers, in brief everything concerning the Audio-Visual musical material.

Moreover, the library has a specialized listening room holds 12 persons, through which music teacher can analysis the musical work for the students. As for the collective listening room and musical seminars, it holds 150 persons to be used in important purposes. This room is to train the public on how to use the modern mechanism, the instructions that regulate the National Library, through a very big screen connecting to a computer with several languages {Arabic-English-French-Italian-Spanish-German}.

Moreover the library has stored its Audio material on CD discs, so as to prevent any sudden damage or loses of the stored information on the hard disc.

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