KFUPM Library
The King Fahd University of Petroleum S. Minerals was initially founded by
the Ministry of Petroleum & Mineral Resources as a college in 1 963 to produce
scientists and engineers for the Kingdom's fast growing petroleum industry. The
entire set up of the college was based on the American model of undergraduate
education. Unlike other institutions of higher education in the country, KFUPM
adopted English as the medium of instruction, which is why, until the early 1990s,
the percentage of foreign faculty and staff exceeded 50%. The percentage of
expatriate staff in the Library was even higher than 60 %