The societal responsibility of faculty members ‎and their assistants in the Library and Information ‎Department at South Valley University, Qena: a ‎case study

The study aimed to identify the reality of the social responsibility of the faculty members and their assistants in the Department of Library and Information at the University of South Valley and their role in community service, to identify the difficulties of achieving social responsibility and proposals for its development, and then to develop a proposed plan to activate and develop social responsibility in the department, and to achieve this goal the study used the case study methodology and adopted On the questionnaire, as a tool for collecting data, it was applied to all 15 members of the faculty and their assistants in the department. The study concluded that the reality of the social responsibility of the members of the study community was an average with an arithmetic average of 1.72, and that the department's role in community service was an average with an arithmetic average of 2.01, and the study also found that there were no statistically significant differences in the reality of social responsibility in the study community due to the gender and degree variables Scientific, years of experience and place of residence. Accordingly, the study recommended strengthening the relationship between the department and the community by attending conferences, seminars, and religious and national events held in the various community institutions and the need to establish a website for the department and direct scientific research to solve community problems and encourage joint research to serve the community and resolve to hold scientific conferences in the department.