King Khalid University
Documents and Archives
About the Center
Vision: Achieve excellence in document and archive management at King Khalid University in accordance with best national and international practices and standards.
Mission: Effectively and systematically manage documents and archives to ensure their preservation and easy access, supporting the administrative and academic operations of the university.
Establishment: The Document and Archive Center at King Khalid University was established in 1429 AH (2008 AD) based on the Council of Ministers Decision No. 139 dated 4/8/1427 AH (August 28, 2006), which approved the recommendations of the ministerial committee regarding the handling and circulation of official documents in government agencies.
Objectives: The center aims to implement the document and archive system, its executive regulations, and related plans through the following:
Collecting, organizing, and preserving documents.
Facilitating access to documents when needed.
Reducing the production of unnecessary documents, saving time, effort, and money.
Improving the quality of documents and standardizing similar ones to facilitate performance and automate administrative work.
Promoting document awareness among center employees in particular and the university community in general.
Center Duties
- Coordination and Integration: Coordinate and integrate with the National Center for Documents and Archives to ensure document services and their safety.
- Indexing and Preservation: Index, scan, abstract, classify, encode, preserve, and maintain the university’s documents according to regulations, classification, and coding plans.
- Providing Documents and Information: Supply documents, information, and data to beneficiaries as per the governing instructions.
- Training Coordination: Coordinate with the relevant departments within the university to train and qualify the center's staff in their field of expertise.
- Administrative and Technical Coordination: Manage the administrative and technical work of the Permanent Documents Committee, Evaluation Committees, Disposal Committees, and Relocation Committees.
- Historical Monitoring: Document the historical establishment of the university, its systems, regulations, plans, programs, projects, and administrative and procedural structures.
- Document Storage: Prepare storage spaces and provide suitable means for preserving and protecting documents.
- Application Monitoring: Monitor and evaluate the application of document systems, regulations, and guides by the university’s administrative units.
- Setting Standards: Collaborate with relevant departments to establish objective and formal standards for documents, standardize similar documents, avoid unnecessary document production, and coordinate with the National Center for Documents and Archives in this regard.
- Administrative and Financial Needs: Determine the center’s administrative and financial needs for inclusion in the university’s annual budget.
- Work Plans: Prepare the center’s annual and five-year work plans and programs.
- Additional Tasks: Carry out any other tasks assigned within its scope of specialization.
Units and Their Tasks
1. Active Documents Unit
1.1. General Objective: The Active Documents Unit aims to manage documents while they are within the various organizational units before transferring them to the Documents and Archives Center, ensuring their proper handling according to the Document and Archive System, its executive regulations, classification plan, rules, procedures, and approved subject headings lists.
1.2. Tasks:
- Supervise the related departments and ensure they perform their tasks as planned.
- Oversee the preparation of regulations, rules, and procedures governing the work in the section.
- Supervise the preparation of the university's classification and coding plan and its guides according to the Document and Archive System and its executive regulations.
- Organize documents according to the classification plan and based on the rules, procedures, and approved subject headings lists.
- Develop and update rules and procedures for organizing documents and the approved subject headings lists.
- Supervise the determination of document retention periods in collaboration with the Permanent Documents Committee and follow up on them.
- Oversee the preparation and updating of the university’s internal coding guide and its branches according to the coding of government agencies, in collaboration with the Administrative Development Department at the university and coordination with the National Center for Documents and Archives.
- Follow up on the application of the classification and coding plan by the various organizational units.
- Determine the administration’s needs for manpower, equipment, and materials.
- Provide periodic reports on the administration’s achievements and suitable suggestions for its development.
- Any other task assigned within its scope of specialization.
2. Semi-active Documents Unit
2.1. General Objective: The Semi-active Documents Unit aims to manage documents in their second phase (semi-active) when they are transferred from the organizational units where they originated to the Documents and Archives Center at the university.
2.2. Tasks:
- Supervise the related departments and ensure they perform their tasks in receiving and accepting documents from the university’s departments and branches according to the governing instructions.
- Oversee the selection of subject headings for indexed documents according to the approved subject headings list in the center.
- Supervise the preparation of documents for electronic scanning and their transfer to the Electronic Scanning Unit.
- Supervise the organization and preservation of work papers and records.
- Provide suggestions and ideas related to evaluation processes and classification and coding guides to the Document Organization Department based on practical application.
- Supervise the preparation and electronic scanning of documents and their transfer to the storage unit.
- Participate in disposal and relocation committees.
- Follow up on the review and audit of indexing, scanning, abstracting, and classification operations conducted on documents.
- Ensure the accuracy and validity of data and documents and their compliance with classification and coding guides and indexing rules.
- Complete deficiencies and address observations in coordination with the relevant departments, sections, and units.
- Determine the administration’s needs for manpower, equipment, and materials.
- Provide periodic reports on the administration’s achievements and suitable suggestions for its development.
- Any other task assigned within its scope of specialization.
3. Permanent Documents Unit
3.1. General Objective: The Permanent Documents Unit aims to manage documents in their third phase (permanent) according to the Document and Archive System, its executive regulations, classification plan, rules, procedures, and approved subject headings lists.
3.2. Tasks:
- Supervise the related departments and ensure they perform their tasks in receiving and accepting documents from the university’s departments and branches according to the governing instructions.
- Oversee the preparation of permanent storage places and equip them with necessary shelves, cabinets, and safety measures.
- Supervise the preparation and transfer of permanently stored documents to the National Center for Documents and Archives after their retention period at the center according to approved rules and procedures.
- Oversee the disposal of temporarily stored documents after their retention period according to approved rules and procedures.
- Follow up on the technical coordination tasks of the Permanent Documents Committee and the evaluation, disposal, and relocation committees.
- Supervise the provision of copies of old documents to the university’s departments, sections, and units when needed according to approved rules and procedures.
- Follow up on the return of borrowed documents to their storage places according to approved rules and procedures.
- Facilitate external beneficiaries’ access to documents or their circulation according to approved rules and procedures.
- Supervise the transfer of permanently stored documents to the National Center for Documents and Archives.
- Ensure the accuracy, correctness, and completeness of data provided to the National Center for Documents and Archives about the university’s documents.
- Determine the unit’s needs for manpower, equipment, and materials.
- Provide periodic reports on the unit’s achievements and suitable suggestions for its development.
- Any other task assigned within its scope of specialization.
4. Confidential Documents Unit
4.1. General Objective: The Confidential Documents Unit aims to manage the university’s confidential documents according to the Document and Archive System, its executive regulations, classification plan, rules, procedures, and approved subject headings lists.
4.2. Tasks:
- Receive, audit, and accept confidential documents.
- Scan, index, classify, and abstract confidential documents.
- Enter necessary information about confidential documents into the automated documentation program.
- Review and audit the technical work of confidential documents.
- Store confidential documents in their designated places.
- Transfer confidential documents according to governing instructions.
- Dispose of confidential documents according to governing instructions.
- Provide required confidential documents according to governing instructions.
- Determine the administration’s needs for manpower, equipment, and materials.
- Provide periodic reports on the administration’s achievements and suitable suggestions for its development.
- Any other task assigned within its scope of specialization.
KKU Center Staff Information
Center Director / Dr. Rania Mufreh Al-Mufreh
- Extension: 3333
- Mobile: 0534284888
- Email: raniah@kku.edu.sa
Assistant Director / Hassan Ahmed Hassan Al-Saidi
- Extension: 4903
- Mobile: 0504780504
- Email: hasayedy@kku.edu.sa
Permanent Documents Unit / Ali Mohammed Ahmed Majhali + Hassan Mohammed Jaber Ghazwani
- Ali's Extension: 4875
- Hassan's Extension: 8191
- Mobile: 0507695670
- Ali's Email: ammajhali@kku.edu.sa
- Hassan's Email: hmjaber@kku.edu.sa
Active Documents and Achievements Unit / Saeed Bin Nasser Bin Musa Al-Muzher + Khairiya Der'a Al-Qahtani
- Saeed's Extension: 4873
- Khairiya's Extension: 4993
- Mobile: 0535355571
- Saeed's Email: snalmzhr@kku.edu.sa
Semi-active Documents Unit / Khalid Ibrahim Hussein Al-Asiri + Hassan Yahya Al-Khaldi
- Khalid's Extension: 9795
- Hassan's Extension: 9259
- Mobile: 0556965565
- Khalid's Email: khasire@kku.edu.sa
Confidential Documents Unit / Abdullah Hassan Al-Fifi
- Extension: 4929
- Mobile: 0502509486
- Email: aalfifi@kku.edu.sa
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