Profile of the Center :
As time passes by, the amount of documents produced by a government agency increases. This increase in the activity of a government agency coupled with the absence of a competent administrative unit that is concerned with documents, follows-up on their status, and is responsible for their arrangement , their storage and disposal will lead to a larger increase in their amount , their accumulation, their destruction and their loss as time passes by. Thus it will become difficult to find the needed documents and therefore such documents will be of non-current use.
As such, the government agencies' dire need to create a documents and archival system, and set up the National Document and Archival Center arose. Such a center was assigned several duties including the setting down of the regulations, plans and the special programs concerning state documents. As such His Majesty gave his kind approval of the general policy for documents and archives, their executive regulations and the unified classification and coding scheme, all of which aim at being concerned with documents, how to make use of them, and how to dispose of those documents that have become of no value and of non-current use. Such an aim could be fulfilled through creating a competent department in each government agency to be referred to as the (document center).
The university, as did the other government agencies, rushed to create a document center to play a major role in applying the document systems, their regulations, policies, plans and programs on their documents. The purpose was to carry out the objectives of the document systems, coordinate its work in this matter with that of the National Document and Archival Center, be concerned with, and manage the documents in the university in a manner that ensures the maximum benefit of such a center.
Additionally, the center will play a major role in applying the most recent methods and techniques to create the e-archives at the center, as well as in applying such methods to all university units in application of the "Paper-less office and paper-less archive" principle.