Library structure

I. Management

II. Department of Access to Collections:

1. Rental:
  • Builds a computer database of Library users.
  • Stores and makes available to readers printed library materials also through interlibrary loans.
  • Provides directory information.
  • Maintains loan statistics.
  • Sends reminders.
  • He selects the book collection.
  • Performs minor book repairs.
  • Prepares books for binding.
  • Maintains order in warehouses.
  • Maintains documentation related to the department’s work.
2. Reading room:

The Reading Room’s collection of books is designed to serve primarily the professional development and training of teachers and students of pedagogy, as well as the implementation of the curriculum.

The Reading Room’s collection includes:

  • Direct information publications (encyclopedias, dictionaries, lexicons and studies),
  • Methodological publications (e.g. methodological guides and teaching programmes),
  • Literature in the field of pedagogy and related sciences,
  • Literature from other fields of knowledge,
  • Regionals,
  • Materials regarding teachers’ professional advancement,
  • Continuing publications,
  • Newspapers and magazines.

The reading room is public, meaning anyone with an ID card is welcome to use it. The department only provides on-site access to its collections. Readers can use the photocopying service.

3. Special Collections:

The Department offers its readers:

  • Films and school readings on DVD.
  • Educational films and documentaries on DVD.
  • Talking books (audiobooks).
  • Materials for learning foreign languages.
  • CDs and gramophone records with classical and popular music.
  • Books published up to 1939 (available for use on-site or online).
  • Notes.
  • Books and CDs for kindergarten and early childhood education teachers.

DVDs are loaned for a specific period (3-7 days). Other items can be borrowed for 30 days. After this period, the reader may renew the borrowed materials with the consent of a faculty member (in person or by phone). Readers may borrow four copies of documents from special collections at a time.

Contact:

Employees of the Circulation Department:

III. Department of Collections Collection and Development

The Department’s primary responsibility in collecting books is to select appropriate collections that meet the needs of teachers and students preparing for the teaching profession. These are collected through:

  • Purchase,
  • Permanent purchase,
  • Gifts,
  • Interlibrary exchange.

The Department maintains records in the main inventory, the inventory of brochures and school textbooks, and the inventory of periodicals and periodicals. The collection is processed formally and substantively. An electronic database has been maintained since 1997 using the LIBRA library software. Since 2003, the collection has been managed using the PROLIB system. The electronic database contains 409,000 records (as of February 2018). The structure of our collection is as follows:

  • Pedagogical literature – 31%
  • Psychological and sociological literature – 16%
  • Fiction – 17%
  • Scientific literature – 35%

Employees of the Department of Collections Collection and Development:

Contact:
  • Department of Collections Acquisition and Development: tel. +48 48 345-98-37, ext. 5; e-mail: gromadzenie@bp.radom.pl.

IV. Information and Promotion Department

The Department offers all Readers professional assistance from qualified librarians in the following areas:

  • Searching for the required information through the alphabetical, subject, topic and title catalogues as well as the subject files,
  • Assistance in selecting literature on a given topic,
  • Preparing and printing bibliographic summaries based on subject files containing articles from journals subscribed to by the library,
  • Referring to specialized bibliographies,
  • Taking care of the Internet Center,
  • Conducting library classes for students of all types of schools.

Employees of the Information and Promotion Department:

Contact:

V. Department of Economics and Administration

Employees:

Contact:

VI. Computerization Workshop

Employees:

Contact:
  • Computerization laboratory: tel. 48 345 95 50, w. 6

E-services

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