The Main Library

The activities of the Division include:

• Substantial care of the functioning of the branch libraries making up a uniform library information system, including tracking any changes in legal regulations regarding these libraries, training, the organisation of meetings, and periodic inspections.
• Participation in creative work connected with the accomplishment of the branch library model in the scope of merging collections, the organisation and coordination of library processes based on VTLS/VIRTUA system.
• Formal verification of documentation regarding the selection and inventorying of the branch libraries collections.
• Cooperation with all departments or divisions of the Main Library within the scope of activities for branch libraries, the regular update of  information on the collections and activities of the branch libraries.
• Ongoing financial and quantitative inventorying of the Main Library collections, including the clarification of all inconsistencies in the register as compared to the real state of collections, preparing the drafts of annual plans and reports from  the inspection of the Main Library collections.
• Verification of documents regarding the selection of the Main Library collections.

	Branch Libraries and Inventory Control Division AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Main Library 2nd floor, rooms 207, 208 30 A. Mickiewicza Av, 30-059 Kraków phone: +48 12 6173216, fax +48 12 6341404 e-mail: zofia.pawlowska[at]bg.agh.edu[dot]pl
	www.bg.agh.edu.pl

The library network consists of 24 libraries including 14 faculty libraries, 7 department libraries and 3 libraries of non-faculty units.

The collections comprise: (status on 31.12.2016) :                  

The total number of current journals titles: 244 titles.

Branch libraries are open from Monday to Friday, and some also on Saturday, but according to the regulations, they have the right not to attend to readers (especially students) on one day of the week (this is usually Wednesday), reserved for internal work, purchase in bookshops, training and professional meetings. The rules for collection circulation are laid down in the faculty regulations, based on The rules for using the Main Library and branch libraries collections, approved by the Deans or the Managers of administrative units.

The source of information about the library collections are traditional card catalogues (available in the libraries) and the AGH online public access catalogue. It contains information about publications which were received by the libraries after 1998 (the libraries, which co-operate creating a mutual catalogue are marked with *). The catalogue also includes earlier collections, depending on the library potential or needs. 


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