Overview
Given the great development the Kingdom is witnessing and its keeping pace with progress, and due to the abundance of documents and information within the university as a result of its great expansion and development, and in implementation of Council of Ministers Resolution No. (9) dated 02/01/1438 AH, which stipulates the establishment of a Documents and Archives Center in each government agency, and pursuant to which His Excellency the University President issued Resolution No. 31756 dated 05/06/1439 AH establishing the Documents and Archives Center at Qassim University, to address the significant accumulation of documents and archives, and to organize documents in accordance with the instructions and regulations of the National Center for Documents and Archives, and to achieve the vision of the Kingdom 2030. The University's Documents and Archives Center is administratively linked to the University Vice Presidency for Financial and Technical Affairs.
Vision
A center of excellence in document preservation, committed to quality, professionalism, and professionalism in dealing with documents and archives.
Mission
Providing optimal services in managing university documents and providing a professional service to beneficiaries, inside and outside the university, with an effective partnership with the National Center for Documents and Archives.
Objectives
- Applying all the rules and regulations of the documents regulated by the royal decisions and orders.
- The center should be a specialized basic reference for researchers and students in the field of university documents of all kinds.
- Realizing the university's future vision in terms of electronic transactions "Paperless University".
- Documentation of all historical documents of the university since its inception.
- Collecting the university's original and permanently preserved documents in a single, centralized location, the design of which is designed to avoid exposure to natural disasters.
- Maintaining and following up on the university's document storage site, and maintaining security in terms of access to documents, except by those responsible for them.
- Faster retrieval of documents and archives, and easier access to documents when needed.
- Collecting, organizing and preserving the documents of Qassim University, and destroying documents that have reached the end of their preservation period.
- Applying digital transformation by implementing the electronic archiving system for all documents and the latest modern technologies in organizing documents and archives.
- Reducing the production of documents according to importance, and eliminating similar documents, thus saving material and human costs.
- Adopting a clear and unified classification mechanism for documents to facilitate work on them and raise the efficiency of their administrative performance, in cooperation with the concerned authorities.
- Raising awareness of the importance of the center's work and the important and effective role of documents.