© Library of the University of Latvia, 2014 Informational Resources For The Humanities and Social Science's Researchers: An Isight Into The Problem's Aspects Mārīte Saviča Deputy Director of the Latvian University's Library Ilona Vēliņa-Švilpe Head of the Collection Employment and Development Department of the Latvian University's Library © Library of the University of Latvia, 2014

© Library of the University of Latvia, 2014 LU Library's plan of the strategic activities for the LU Strategic Plan's Realization During the 2010-2020 years LU Library's data LU Library's statistic Library's employees' personal practice with users Library's employees' practical acquisitional work © Library of the University of Latvia, 2014

© Library of the University of Latvia, 2014 Statistic data Electronic and digital informational resources in the Library - 5.8% in 2010, 9.7 % in 2013. Registered library's users - 26 500 in 2010, 35 530 in 2013. The number of remote connections - 303 702 in 2010, 20 114 25 in 2013. © Library of the University of Latvia, 2014

The number of informational resources LU Library's branches 2012 2013 Library of the Humanities Faculties 1623 2683 Library of the Education and Psychology Faculty 1226 1140 Library of the Social Sciences Faculty 2074 1573 Library of the Economic Faculty / Library of Aspazijas Boulevard 391 1028 © Library of the University of Latvia, 2014

Doctoral students as users Period of time Doctoral students Library registered doctoral students 2012 828 366 2013 754 398 © Library of the University of Latvia, 2014

Library branches surveys' results “ (..) I have noticed that people who did not attend our library before, they don't attend it now as well (..) “ (..) lecturers often ask why there are many books on certain themes but there are only few books connected with other ones (..)” © Library of the University of Latvia, 2014

Library branches surveys' results “ (..) We have many lecturers who did not attend our library 7 years ago, but now everything is being changed as the result of the individual approaches to such members of the academic staff, discussions with them, convincing that the library can help them (..)” © Library of the University of Latvia, 2014

© Library of the University of Latvia, 2014 ! ! ! The low proportion of doctoral students among the Library's clients There are many lecturers who work for LU for many years - they are not Library's clients © Library of the University of Latvia, 2014

© Library of the University of Latvia, 2014 ! ! ! The same lecturers mainly help to form the collection of the Library The content's uniformity of the Library's collection which threats with the prevalence of certain information resources but the lack of other ones © Library of the University of Latvia, 2014

© Library of the University of Latvia, 2014 ? ? ? Should we clear up the needs of the Library's target audience at first? How can we promote the lecturers possession of knowledge? How can we deepen the comprehension in the academic environment in total about the significant role of the Library? © Library of the University of Latvia, 2014

Thank you for your attention! The Latvian University's Library e-mail: Marite.Savica@lu.lv e-mail: Ilona.Velina-Svilpe@lu.lv © Library of the University of Latvia, 2014