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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
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LU Library's plan of the strategic activities for the LU Strategic Plan's Realization During the years
LU Library's data
LU Library's statistic
Library's employees' personal practice with users
Library's employees' practical acquisitional work
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Statistic data
Electronic and digital informational resources in the Library % in 2010, 9.7 % in 2013.
Registered library's users in 2010, in 2013.
The number of remote connections in 2010, in 2013.
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4. 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
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5. Doctoral students as users
Period of time
Doctoral students
Library registered doctoral students
2012
828
366
2013
754
398
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6. 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 (..)”
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7. 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 (..)”
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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
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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
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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?
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11. Thank you for your attention!
The Latvian University's Library
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