Looking for new,
trying not to lose the old.
Strategy of the Main Library of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences
Wojciech Woźniak
Warsaw University of Life Sciences
the oldest agricultural university in Poland and the fourth of this type in Europe
1816 Agronomic Institute in Marymont
1918 the Warsaw University of Life Sciences
40 fields of study (including 9 taught in English)
nearly 16,000 students in full-time, part-time, doctoral, and post-graduate study courses as well as under international student exchange
Main Library
1918 donation of collection of Industrial and Agricultural Courses in Warsaw
1933-1998 headquarters at Rakowiecka street
1998 new building in the campus at Ursynów (south part of Warsaw).
the Science Information Network
the Main Library
Library at the Institute of Civil Engineering and the Institute of Environmental Engineering
Library at the Institute of Veterinary Medicine
Library at the Institute of Human Nutrition Sciences Science
Information
Network
Why strategy?
traditional library
traditional functions + modern
elements
modern hub of
knowledge
students need the most are (in order of importance):
-place for studying alone,
-place for working in groups, -source of books,
-source of information from other resources (scientific journals, data bases),
-source of information for preparing thesis
scientists need the most are (in order of importance):
-means of access to paid data bases and scientific journals,
-support in creating plans of management of scientific data,
- place of coordinating access to program of open publishing
Client first approach
Collection and storage of library
materials and information
resources
Didactic and scientific-researc h activities in the
field of access to information and
library science Access to library
materials and
information resources
Scientometric and information activities
- maintain effective and user-friendly mechanisms of electronic access
- digitizing of unique and rare books - open access issues
Area 1: Access to library materials and
information resources
- collecting and storing of library materials and information resources
- conservation of the oldest books - collection of novels and poems
Area 2: Collection and storage of library
materials and information resources
- courses for our students
- meetings with developers of scientist data bases and other tools - stay in touch with other academic libraries in Poland
Area 3: Didactic and scientific-research
activities in the field of access to information
and library science
- maintenance of data base containing information about scientific activity of our scientists
- taking part in the library conferences - preparing papers
Area 4: Scientometric and information
activities
- modernizing our reading rooms to create more friendly and more comfortable spaces for users
- architectural diagnosis of the building of the Main Library of WULS - user experience
Area 5: Infrastructure of the Science
Information Network
- highly motivated and professional staff - projects-centred attitude
- strong and recognizable Science Information Network brand
Area 6: Operational efficiency of the Science
Information Network
- evolution of user habits
- multifunctional tool and space to strengthen both the scientific and didactic potential of WULS
- guide in the maze of data and metadata
