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NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA’S LIBRARY The NUR Library has been serving and is still serving Rwandan Citizens and different users from various parts of the World. National University of Rwanda
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Blekinge Institute of Technology SE-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 www.bth.se/eng NUR LIBRARY The NUR Library is one of the core units whose mission is “to provide excellent services for the promotion of teaching and research activities at NUR” The library of NUR is accessible for everyone, students, lecturers and the public NUR MAIN LIBRARY
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Blekinge Institute of Technology SE-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 www.bth.se/eng NUR LIBRARY … The Library is divided into three main Departments Internal Department External Department ICT Department 1 NUR MAIN LIBRARY
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Blekinge Institute of Technology SE-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 www.bth.se/eng NUR LIBRARY … The NUR Main Library consists of more than 150 000 books The Library subscribes to more than 33 000 E-journals with the assistance of the SIDA/SAREC Project NUR MAIN LIBRARY
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Blekinge Institute of Technology SE-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 www.bth.se/eng LENDING SYSTEM The Library has a computerized catalogue, OPAC, which makes it possible to find three quarters of the books within the library electronically The search engine makes it possible to find all the books that are within the typed key word NUR MAIN LIBRARY
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Blekinge Institute of Technology SE-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 www.bth.se/eng LENDING SYSTEM If you want to find out how our electronic catalogue works, you are most welcome to visit our website www.lib.nur.ac.rw, or ask someone within the Library staffwww.lib.nur.ac.rw The electronic catalogue has free access NUR MAIN LIBRARY
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Blekinge Institute of Technology SE-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 www.bth.se/eng LENDING SYSTEM An automatic lending system has been tried out successfully with library users’ cards The System will be put in use very soon NUR MAIN LIBRARY
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Blekinge Institute of Technology SE-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 www.bth.se/eng ACQUISITION SERVICE Acquisition of books, bachelor and master thesis Receive suggestions from different faculties Acquire and receive books that are gifts NUR MAIN LIBRARY
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Blekinge Institute of Technology SE-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 www.bth.se/eng ACQUISITION SERVICE NUR MAIN LIBRARY
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Blekinge Institute of Technology SE-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 www.bth.se/eng CATALOGING AND CLASSIFICATION SERVICES The most important task within the catalogue service is to make books accessible and retrievable, by using a classification system The classification is to identify a book The identity describes: the author of the book, the title, when it was published etc NUR MAIN LIBRARY
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Blekinge Institute of Technology SE-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 www.bth.se/eng CATALOGING AND CLASSIFICATION SERVICES The Library is using the Dewey system to classify the information, this is a decimal system The important element how to locate books, is to use the code through this system, together with the author NUR MAIN LIBRARY
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Blekinge Institute of Technology SE-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 www.bth.se/eng THE PERIODICAL SERVICE A periodical is a publication with a general and stable title and is being published on a regular basis daily, weekly or monthly The periodical service is about handling the latest periodicals that have been published and to make them accessible for the library users NUR MAIN LIBRARY
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Blekinge Institute of Technology SE-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 www.bth.se/eng THE PERIODICAL SERVICE Monitor and coordinate the periodical service To guide the users in how the periodicals are arranged NUR MAIN LIBRARY
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Blekinge Institute of Technology SE-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 www.bth.se/eng REFERENCE SERVICE The reference service is an orientation and assistance service for the users of the NUR Library It is through this service that the library staff is guiding the library users how to find the information that they request NUR MAIN LIBRARY
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Blekinge Institute of Technology SE-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 www.bth.se/eng THE RWANDAN´S COLLECTION SECTION The Rwandan’s collection section is specialized to serve the community with information concerning Rwanda and the neighbouring countries This implies all the information that is produced in Rwanda and documents produced about Rwanda abroad NUR MAIN LIBRARY
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Blekinge Institute of Technology SE-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 www.bth.se/eng THE RWANDAN´S COLLECTION SECTION The section is gathering and conserving all material that concerns Rwanda The information is documentation and reports about Rwanda, for example about the genocide, Rwandese culture and the history of Rwanda NUR MAIN LIBRARY
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Blekinge Institute of Technology SE-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 www.bth.se/eng THE RWANDAN´S COLLECTION SECTION The documents within the Rwandese’ collection is divided into two categories: Books Diverse periodicals. For example: Journal Officiel, Imvaho, Imvaho Nshya, Etudes rwandaises NUR MAIN LIBRARY
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Blekinge Institute of Technology SE-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 www.bth.se/eng ICT – INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES Has a computer lab with 20 computers Access to a large number of e- resources NUR MAIN LIBRARY
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Blekinge Institute of Technology SE-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 www.bth.se/eng ICT – INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES Provides search help for users Technical support Website development NUR MAIN LIBRARY
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Blekinge Institute of Technology SE-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 www.bth.se/eng OPENING HOURS Monday to Friday 8:00 am – 10:00 pm Sunday 8:00 am – 1:00 pm In the near future the NUR Main Library will start to open on Saturdays NUR MAIN LIBRARY
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Blekinge Institute of Technology SE-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 www.bth.se/eng NUR LIBRARY SERVICES The Library consistently makes an effort to improve our services towards the users: Please help us to improve by leaving your suggestions in the Suggestion box NUR MAIN LIBRARY
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Blekinge Institute of Technology SE-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 www.bth.se/eng NUR LIBRARY SERVICES Welcome to the NUR Library NUR MAIN LIBRARY
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