1. The acquisition and collection of all documents of the university units. It then organizes, renovates, catalogues, stores and presents them on demand, and regulates their circulation.
2. It provides timely and appropriate information and data on these documents to all university and non-university users.
3. It facilitates the appropriate locations, means, manners, and technologies to store, organize, and circulate documents.
4. It coordinates with the National Center for Documents and Archives, communicates and cooperates with document-concerned committees, corporations and other bodies inside and outside the university.
5. It initiates document-related workshops, training sessions, seminars, publications and reports.

Tasks

The Documents Center is a specialized administrative unit, responsible first for acquiring, organizing, archiving, storing, and circulating documents, and second for enforcing related policies, regulations, and decisions as these pertain to King Saud University.

The Center seeks to achieve the following:
1. The proper execution of documents’ regulations, policies, bylaws, and related instructions and decisions.
2. The promotion of document awareness among the University members.
3. The recruitment of qualified cadre in the area of organizing and archiving documents and collections
4. The historical authentication and organization of the University’s statutes, bylaws, and records.