THE ACTIVITY OF THE JAGIELLONIAN LIBRARY IN 2017. A REPORT
THE ACTIVITY OF THE JAGIELLONIAN LIBRARY IN 2017. A REPORT

Summary/Abstract: In 2017, the library and information system of the Jagiellonian University comprised the Jagiellonian Library, 7 faculty libraries, 1 inter-departmental library and 25 institute libraries, as well as the Jagiellonian University Medical Library with its institute libraries. The main goal of all institute libraries, as specialist units, is to collect resources appropriate for research and teaching in a given programme of study. In 2017, the institute libraries of the Jagiellonian University enriched their collections by 19,859 volumes of books and monographs, 4,923 volumes of periodicals and 657 items of special collections. At the same time, 4,311 volumes of books and monographs were removed from the book collections of 3 faculty libraries. Taken together, as of December 31st, 2017, all the institute libraries had a total of 2,118,111 volumes and items in their possession, including 1,693,608 volumes of books and monographs, 274,941 volumes of periodicals, and 149,562 items of special collections. The number of all current titles of periodicals was 1,597, of which 973 were Polish titles. In the reporting year, the number of computers in possession of the Jagiellonian Library increased slightly. All the libraries were equipped with 428 computers, 257 of which were available to library users. 416 computers had access to the Internet – 251 of which were available to readers. A total of 338 computers were used for library and bibliographic tasks.

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