The periodicals unit in the central library, which is the unit responsible for lending periodicals, and the periodical is a term given to every publication issued periodically on a specific date and intermittently. This unit includes magazines and newspapers in both Arabic and foreign languages ​​from inside and outside Iraq, and magazines related to Iraqi universities and scientific centers. Magazines and newspapers are arranged on the shelves according to their titles, years of publication, and the order of their numbers. According to what was reported by Mrs. Latifa Youssef Abdel Nabi, the periodicals unit official, that this unit includes (12150) periodicals that include (magazines, newspapers, yearbooks and reports).

Its cadre consists of four employees, each according to his specialization, working to provide services to the beneficiaries of postgraduate students and students of primary studies, and periodically loan them for a specific period for the purpose of reproduction when absolutely necessary and not loaned outside the central library building because of the difficulty of obtaining it when it is lost or damaged.

The cadre also records the periodicals received by the unit in special records and sends them to the internet unit for the purpose of entering them into the automatic index. Among the work of the cadre is to return the magazines to the shelves after being used by the beneficiaries and send the damaged and torn periodicals to the binding department, and categorize the periodicals to facilitate obtaining them during the search process reported by the employee concerned.
Work in this unit is from eight thirty in the morning until two o'clock in the afternoon.

There is also a record of the weekly and monthly statistics that include the arrivals to this unit, the number of periodicals received by the unit and the quality of the beneficiaries, including teachers, postgraduate students or primary studies students, where the Secretary-General of the Central Library, Assistant Professor Dr. And the services it provides to readers and researchers