<strong>ملخص الدراسة:</strong>

The research is a general view of the central public at Nineveh province and its role in developing the community culture in Nineveh since its foundation in 1921 till the present time . the research also includes a futuristic view to develop the library and its services and staff. The most important conclusions the study has come up with as the following: 1-The users' refusal to use the library because is faraway from the city center , the exceptional security conditions in Mosul as well as the absence of out-library lending .2-Refusal of thinkers and scholars to donate their personal collections of books because they are not being used heavily by users. It is to be noted that no personal collection was donated since 2002. The absence of specialists in information and librarianship among the central public library employees in spite of the availability of two departments of information and librarianship at the technical institute and College of Arts in Mosul .

ملخص الدراسة:

The research is a general view of the central public at Nineveh province and its role in developing the community culture in Nineveh since its foundation in 1921 till the present time . the research also includes a futuristic view to develop the library and its services and staff. The most important conclusions the study has come up with as the following: 1-The users’ refusal to use the library because is faraway from the city center , the exceptional security conditions in Mosul as well as the absence of out-library lending .2-Refusal of thinkers and scholars to donate their personal collections of books because they are not being used heavily by users. It is to be noted that no personal collection was donated since 2002. The absence of specialists in information and librarianship among the central public library employees in spite of the availability of two departments of information and librarianship at the technical institute and College of Arts in Mosul .