Library of KBSU visited the Institute of Physics and Mathematics
In order to improve the quality of information and library support of the educational process, increase the awareness of teachers, as well as coordinate the work of the departments and the library of the university at the Institute of Physics and Mathematics of the Kabardino-Balkarian State University named after H.M. Berbekov passed Library Day. As one of its organizers, a leading specialist in the field of scientific and technical information, Madina Buranova, noted:
«The priority areas of the university library’s activity are assistance in educational work, research activities. Coordinated cooperation between the library and the institutes plays an important role in solving certain issues. Such cooperation is the “Library Day at the Institute”. So, during this event, issues of completing the book fund, new services and resources of the library will be discussed, new publications on disciplines, topics of scientific research conducted at each specific department will be familiarized with for the subsequent determination of the circle of subscribers for informing through the system of selective dissemination of information and differentiated service».
The director of the KBSU library Aimani Gerieva, chief librarian, head. department of acquisition, scientific and technical processing of documents and organization of catalogs Nelli Gubzhokova, head of the reading room of natural and technical sciences Madina Ashnokova, head of the department of training subscription Zarema Kesheva.
Welcoming the participants of the dialogue, Boris Kunizhev, director of the IPM KBSU, noted that the university library today positions itself as a space for new competencies, gaining knowledge and skills, as a space that unites creatively gifted people.
«Thanks to our university library, a huge layer of electronic resources, intellectual clubs, rare monuments of book culture, etc. become available. This is its indisputable advantage», — stated B. Kunizhev.
Library staff provided information on the circulation of the book fund of the university library, book supply and provision of electronic scientific and educational resources of departmental disciplines in accordance with the Federal State Educational Standards, State Educational Standards and licensing standards, on interlibrary loan services (IBA) and electronic document delivery (EDD), conducted a bibliographic review of literature from library funds, etc. Aimani Geriyeva spoke about the work with the electronic catalog and electronic library systems:
«An automated information system on the 1C platform was installed in the university library, employees were trained to work with this system. The main features of the program at this stage: organization of remote access to the electronic catalog, digitalization of all basic processes in librarianship: acquisition, cataloging, lending, statistics and reporting, etc.
Thus, the introduction of modern information technologies in the university library environment, in particular, the automation of most processes, the active development of the electronic catalog, the emergence of a library server and Internet access, the acquisition of experience in the field of modern library services by employees, the opening of an electronic information hall equipped for comfortable work library users with various types of information, created the conditions for conducting part of the practical classes directly in the library using computer technology».
Aimani Gerieva paid special attention to the story about the electronic library systems «Lan», «University Library Online», «Student Advisor», «IPRbooks», as the resources presented contain a large number of electronic versions of textbooks, manuals, monographs, periodicals, encyclopedias, video and audio materials.
«Currently, electronic library systems occupy a stable position in the space of educational and cognitive resources for universities and libraries. Thanks to modern information and communication technologies, today the university library has the opportunity to diversify existing forms of work and introduce new types of interaction with students and teachers.
In order to support higher education, the KBSU library completes its funds with all types of information resources. Understanding the relevance of the tasks of providing access for interested users to objects of the so-called intellectual property, expressed in digital form, the library of the university is always looking for the library services most in demand by students and teachers», — emphasized Aimani Gerieva.
As part of the Library Day, the IPM KBSU also organized an exhibition with book novelties, educational and scientific literature on the profile of the departments of the institute. A wide range of literature on computer science, computer graphics, micro- and nanotechnologies, physics (in particular, nuclear physics), mathematical modeling, mathematical mechanics, etc. was offered to the attention of students, graduate students, teachers.
Translated by Gekkieva J.A.