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There are three main cafeterias on the Birzeit campus. Two serve students, in the Omar Al-Aggad Engineering Building and in the Kamal Nasir and Main Cafeteria Building. The third cafeteria serves faculty in the Science Building. In addition, there are several smaller cafes and other outlets offering light refreshments and snacks.
The University's existing clinic offers free medical services to the university community of approximately 5,000 staff and students. The new Azeez Shaheen Clinic is currently under construction, and will add dental hygene, laboratory testing and emergency services.
The University Computer Centre provides services to both staff and students, through a campus-wide local area network (LAN). The LAN allows e-mail access through the Internet and the University has recently launched a website (http://www.birzeit.edu), accessible ideally through a Netscape browser.
The Yusuf Alghanim Library has an open-stack system with a collection of over 100,000 volumes, of which around 30,000 are in Arabic and 70,000 in English, with around 2,000 texts in other European languages. The library subscribes to over 700 periodicals, 40 of which are on microfilm.
The library follows the Library of Congress classification system, has a computerised search facility, and has been a despository of UNESCO publications since 1979.
The Public Relations Office provides campus tours to over 5,000 people each year. In addition to this, the office publishes newsletters, press releases and other short publications in both English and Arabic and has an e-mail urgent action list. The Office also maintains the university website, which will soon offer brief information about Birzeit University in French, German, Norweigan and Dutch, in addition to English.
The university campus holds both volleyball and basketball courts, and students regularly hold competitions with other educational institutions and Birzeit faculty members. An area is currentlybeing developed for a football field and it is hoped that the campus will eventually see the addition of a swimming pool.