Kursk State University Library

Научная библиотека Курского государственного университета
(Kursk State University Library)
Country Russia
Type Academic library
Established 1934
Location 33 Radischev St., Kursk
Collection
Items collected books, journals, newspapers, magazines and prints
Size 700 000 items (approx.)
Criteria for collection academic and scientific publications
Access and use
Members more than 12 000
Other information
Director Ms. Alla V. Alyabyeva
Staff 70
Website http://lib.kursksu.ru/

The Kursk State University Library is a library in Kursk State University (KGU). The library was founded in 1934 simultaneously with the opening of Kursk State Pedagogical Institute.

Overview

The Kursk State University Library was founded July 22, 1934. Today more than 60 people work in the library. The Kursk State University Library is a research information center for the libraries of state universities of Kursk and Kursk Oblast. The structure of the Kursk State University Library includes a circulating library, reading and electronic reading rooms, a point of issue of art-graphic faculty. Every year the library serves more than 40 000 members — students, teachers, university employees. It was issued more than 1.3 million copies.

Collection

The library сollection has more than 700 000 units. It presents the scientific, academic and fiction publications, normative documents, theses and author's abstract of theses, electronic publications in various formats, etc. More than 10 000 copies of new publications and 400 titles of periodicals receive to the сollection each year.

Information technology

The library uses the automated library-information system "Ruslan", which contains the online public access catalog of library collections, full-text electronic versions of the publications of the scientists of the University, full-text publications of the antique сollection (rare books and limited editions) of the academic library.[1] The users of the library have access to the various legal reference systems and the various remote information resources.

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Coordinates: 51°44′06″N 36°11′27″E / 51.7351°N 36.1908°E / 51.7351; 36.1908

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