The AHEU library is one of the main departments of the university and serves teachers, students, undergraduates and university staff. The library provides information support for the educational, scientific and educational activities of the university within the framework of educational process organizations in accordance with the requirements of state educational standards.
The total area of the library is 485.4 sq.m. Its structure includes 2 reading rooms with 40 seats, a room for periodicals and an electronic room, 1 reading room at the Institute of Pedagogy, Business and Law with 20 seats and a subscription. The total book fund of the library is 581,999 copies, including in the state language - 177,066, in English - 773, on electronic media - 50,546, of which in the Kazakh language - 14,388 copies, in Russian - 36,158. The book fund includes 528,153 copies of educational literature and 28,798 copies of scientific literature. The library's material and technical base includes 10 computers in the electronic library, 5 computers in the reading room and 1 printer in 3 rooms, 2 computers and one printer for employees.
There is free access to the Internet and Wi-Fi, so all readers have access to the necessary information.
The library's book collection is located in the Kabis electronic library database http://lib.aesa.kz:8040/lib/. The database of the Republican Interuniversity Electronic Library (RIEL) http://rmebrk.kz/ is available to teaching staff and students.
The university creates conditions for training and scientific research on its territory. All students have access to information resources, including databases of scientific publications:
- Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science): http://apps.webofknowledge.com/,
- Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/freelookup/form/author.uri,
- Springer: https://www.springer.com/gp,
-Elsevier: http://elsevierscience.ru/products/scopus/; - https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus.
- Scientific electronic library and Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI): eLIBRARY.RU https://elibrary.ru/authors.asp,
- National scientific portal of the Republic of Kazakhstan NAUKA.KZ: http://www.nauka.kz/page.php
Periodicals and documents are acquired by the library in accordance with the needs of departments and structural divisions of the university. The annual subscription is compiled according to the profile of the university: these are large Kazakh, Russian, and foreign journals in all disciplines studied.
The library fund of educational and scientific literature provides 100% of the basic and core disciplines of each specialty, taking into account the main educational literature of the social and humanitarian direction in the format of printed publications for the last five years; natural and technical - over the last 10 years, which meets the qualification requirements.
In modern conditions, taking into account the development of technology, the library has revised its priorities in acquiring collections. So today, preference is given to collecting funds on electronic media. Not only individual publications are purchased, but also access to remote databases, which has made the collections more mobile.
In general, the provision of educational programs of the university with information and library resources complies with licensing requirements, the development of the resource base and the updating of the library collection is carried out in accordance with the State Educational Standards of the Republic of Kazakhstan, approved by the Resolution of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 1080 of August 23, 2012.