Attention to the Library began with the establishment of Supreme Council for Family Affairs when it commenced implementing a group of programs concerning the family and women empowerment in all aspects of life that require having scientific resources of books, periodicals and publications related to economic, social and political issues in regard to women, childhood, youth, the elderly, special needs persons, and the family in general.  Due to that, the Secretariat-General initiated to establish the Library so that scholars, researchers and planners from outside and inside the Council can benefit of that.

 SCFA's Library is considered a main information source in SCFA and the most important pillar of scientific research for researchers of both sexes whether from inside or outside the Council. Due to the Council's higher administration realization of the importance of the library to researchers, it has maintained to support and provide everything needed for the services of the library public and to promote the role of the library.

SCFA's Library started by using a mechanical system in loaning and technical processes related to library's possessions to facilitate the process of requisition, reservations and inquiring electronically.

The system provides researchers with selective announcement of information and current knowledge.

The Library specializes in:

1. Laying out the system concerning defining the procedures of acquisition and loaning in the Library.
2. Follow-up all information sources in the areas related to the family and the magazines associated with it.
3. Documenting books, studies, legislations and agreements that come to the Library.
4. Announcing the new materials arriving to the Library.
5. Assisting researchers in obtaining the information needed for finishing their work.

 Library Services:

1. Reading: This is for internal use by researchers so that they review the sources of information in the library, especially the items that are not for loaning outside the Library, such as: general references which include dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases, guides and books reserved to be used according to agreement with the managing directors of departments and committees, in addition to manuscripts and rare books, periodicals, reports and researches. Beneficiaries from these services are: all researches from the entire sectors of the government.
2. External loaning: This is a service offered by the Library to facilitate the researcher task in obtaining whatever items he/she needs when he/she has insufficient time to spend inside the Library or due to personal reasons that impede him/her from coming to the Library regularly. (Beneficiaries from SCFA).
3. Photocopying: This is a service for photocopying and Xeroxing the materials and items that are not allowed for loaning such as documents, references and source books, or to photocopy books for researchers from outside the SCFA who are not included in the external loaning services.
4. Current knowledge: This is the knowledge of researchers of new developments in the area of information related to their work and available in the SCFA Library.
5. Selective announcement of information: this service aims at providing beneficiaries regularly with information that comes within their areas of interest without waiting for their asking for this information. This is a service specially for the individual directly as it is directed according to the needs of each particular researcher.

Business hours of the Library
Daily: Sunday – Thursday; 8:00 am-1:00 p.m.
Library Contact
Telephone: 4628436
Fax: +974:4676308
e-mail: libray@scfa.gov.qa