The document outlines the Erasmus+ Capacity Building project in higher education at the Alecu Russo State University in Bălți, Moldova, highlighting its historical and educational significance. The university, established in 1945, offers diverse academic programs and operates a scientific library that supports research and education through modern services and international collaborations. Additionally, the library plays a crucial role in promoting information literacy and has engaged in multiple initiatives to enhance library services and staff qualifications.

1. ERASMUS + Capacity Building
in the Field of Higher education (CBHE)
Project Kick Off Meetings 7th - 10th March 2016, Brasov, Romania.
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SCIENTIFIC
LIBRARY
of Balti Alecu Russo State University
Republic of Moldova

2. BĂLŢI is a city with the status of municipality, the capital
of Development North Region in Republic of Moldova
• It is the second largest in terms of area and economic importance after Chişinău.
• The city is in the middle with a Bălţi steppe plain relief fragmented, 138 km north
of Chisinau, 65 km from the border with Romania (EU) and 120 km from the border
with Ukraine.
• Sometimes also called „the northern capital", it is a major industrial, cultural and
commercial centre and transportation hub in the north of the country.
• The word Bălţi appears in the Polish comments written on the Polish-Ottoman war
of 1620.
• Chernozem soils predominate in Bălţi, that’s why in the city activates Research
Institute of Field Crops „Selectsya", specializing in improving crop selection.
• Research Institute of Field Crops „Selectsya“ is the holder of the largest
collection of patents and inventions in Moldova.
 It is a historic city with old churches from 1795. In 1935, King Carol II of Romania
and Crown Prince Mihai of Romania, the future King Michael of Romania, attended
the consecration ceremony dedicated to Saints Constantine and Helen Cathedral,
built by Bishop Visarion Puiu of Hotin.
 In 2011, Bălţi had a population of over 150 000 inhabitants.
 According to the 2004 Moldovan Census, data on ethnicity of persons is as
follows: Moldovans - 52.4 %, Romanian - 1.8%. Among the Slavic peoples , 24 %
are Ukrainians , followed by Russians - 19,2% and Bulgarian - 0.2 %.
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3. • Today, in Bălţi are 13 lyceums and 6 professional education institutions
offering the last 3 years of high school education and 2 years post-high
school technical education. Also, 14 secondary schools, 7 professional or
professional-technical schools.
• State University is founded in 1945.
• The last year USARB and the Library celebrated its 70 years.
• The University trains professionals in forty-three specialities at four
faculties: Faculty of Filology, Faculty of Exact, Economic and
Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Psychology
and Arts, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences;
• It has trained more than seven thousand of teachers (70 000) during 70
years.
• The University provides specialist training for the national economy at all
levels: Licentiate, Master”s and Doctoral studies as well as continuing
development for in-service professionals;
• Over six thousand students(6000), over six hundred(682)Mater`s students
and fifty Doctoral students reside at the moment in the world of science
and education.
• The scientific and didactic expertise of the academic staff is represented
by eight Doctoral Habiltate, one hundred Doctors, five University
Professors and eighty Associate Professors;
• The University collaborates with universities from Europe and other
continents, as well as by the projects technically and logistically
supported by the European Council, the Francophone University Agency
and the European Union programs for higher education: Tempus,
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4. The Scientific Library was founded in 1945,
at the same time with the University (originally Teaching Institute)
• Being an integral part of the educational process and scientific
research, classified by the Government to be of the highest
category, The Scientific Library is a:
• Departmental Librariansip Center
• Regional Depository of the World Bank
• Member of Electronic Resources for Moldova (ERM ) Consortium
• Participant in national and international projects including:
• Memory of Moldova – a component part of the National Digital
Library MOLDAVICA http://www.moldavica.bnrm.md/
• Tempus MISISQ – Modern Information Services for Improvement
Study Quality (2013 - 2016)
http://misisq.usmf.md/index.php/en-us/
• ERASMUS + Capacity Building
in the Field of Higher education (CBHE)
• in Moldova - Library Network Support Services: modernizing
libraries in Armenia, Moldova and Belarus through library staff
development and reforming libraries - regional project, the
purpose of modernization and strengthening of libraries,
improving the competences of staff librarian in higher education
institutions from Moldova, Armenia and Belarus.
• Modernization of academic library services in Moldova, SIU
Eurasia (The Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in
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The Library is located in a unique four-story modern building, with an
area of about six thousands square meters (6000 m2) equipped with
notable technical equipment. The Library ensures the comfort and
aesthetic norms for ten thousands (10 000 )users per year. The users
visit the Library by about (300 000) three hundred thousand times and
borrow more than (800 000) eight hundred thousand documents
through 12 reading rooms (763 seats) and 4 loans .The Library
website shows about (60 000) sixty thousands virtual visits, four
hundred and sixty thousand (465 000 ) pages views and two million
and seven hundred thousand hits (2.7 million accesses)

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6. The Library Organigram contains 5 subdivizions and 5 Centres :
Collection Development, Catalogueing / Indexing, Organization/Storing
Collections, Collection Communication (Reading Rooms, Loan
Departments, Literature in Foreign Languages Office, Musical
Documentation Office) , Bibliographic Documentation / Information,
Research. Speciality Assistance and Centres: Information and network
activities, Media Centre, Marketing. Editorial activity, Information
Literacy, Cultural Events.
Including:
• United Nations Documentation Centre
• European Information Centre
• NATO Information and Documentation Point
• Romanian Cultural Institute collection
• Goethe Institute – Bucharest collection
• The collection Journal Donation Project, New- York- SUA .
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7. SERVICES AND OPPORTUNITIES
 Studies in specialized reading rooms;
 loan services, bibliographic and information research;
 Informational assistance; Department days; Information days;
 The university/master”s, doctoral student”s monthly; the
editorial saloon Bălţi University teacher”s scientific and
didactic contributions;
 bibliogrphic presentation and informative e-bulletins of new
acquisitions;
 selective dissemination of information for researches (DSI);
 diffirential service for the administration(SDC);
 assigning Master”s papers the CZU index;
 the course Fundamentals of Information Literacy, the program
the New Customer/tutorials, listening using headphones,
editing scientific theses using the Libarary”s computers.
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 Copying/Xerox;
 Creation of bibliographic lists, developing bibliographic indexes
at request ;
 Assigning of UDS (CZU) index to the master theses;
 Scanning documents;
 Serving non-users (outside the University community);
 Printing documents;
 Recording information on floppy disk, CD, DVD, flash memory;
 Retrieval service and electronic delivery information as a
request-offer;
 Interlibrary national loan;
 Conditions for the preparation of works in Microsoft Word
(tables, graphs, charts), excel, power-point, access;
 Terms of the wording the texts in the different languages :
French, Russian and Romanian;
Scientific and Cultural
activities
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8. HUMAN PERSONNEL, 2015
Category Higher category The first category The second category Uncategorized TOTAL
16 19 11 6 53
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53 employees, including 46 librarians, holders of qualifications degrees , realize the main objectives of the Library that are creating the potential
of necessary resources, informing, assisting in professional training, providing access to documents on different supports, to national and global
databases, diversifying and modernizing the Library”s services and products.
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9. The collections
consists
1 021 919 copies
Titles
over 300 000 (three
hundred thousand)
Value
11 876 285, 89 lei
Documents Collection Development
 Ten thousand copies in five thousand titles are annually procured; 322 titles of periodicals publications are subscribed to.
 Access to electronic documents is provided via subscription to EBSCO database, UNO, World Bank, NATO, Eubookshop, Cambridge
Journals online, DOAJ, Royal Society Journals and Archive, Polpred and others, all in all 60 databases and 150 000 e-documents.
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11. Radu MOŢOC, the engineer, the Secretary of
Pro Basarabia and Bucovina Association, the
Branch ,,Costache Negri” of Galaţi,the
Honorary Member of the Senate USARB . He
brought for 20 years about twenty and one
thousand (21 000) Romanian books worth
over a hundred thousand euros (100 000) .
Dr. Alexandru BUDIŞTEANU-architect,
Chairman Emeritus of the ESU-Romania,
Chairman of the International Council of the
English-Speaking Union, Doctor Honoris
Causa USARB. He promised to donate his
library , which include eight thousand and
eight hundred (8 800 )documents
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Ioan NICORICI Ion PROCA Mircea DRUC Ioan Călin
DIMITRIU
Leonid
GHEORGHIAN
The undeniable value are private collections
Ioan NICORICI and Ion PROCA (Moldova)
Mircea DRUC and Ioan Călin DIMITRIU ( Romania)
Leonid GHEORGHIAN ( Germany)
and Dan George DIMITRESCU (Sweden)
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Professor Dr.Thomas WILHELMI from
Switzerland. He directed to Bălţi
students original books in German and
French languages, who formed the
collection in his name and is focused
also on the philological field that bears
his name.

12.  The on-line catalogue contains 377 887
registrations or 73 % of all the titles, including:
monographs, periodicals, AV, RE (212 711),
analytical Bibliographic notes (16 176).
 Scanned Summary: bout 7000 tables of contents of
journals and books in English, German and Russian
related to the major subjects of the University
 Musical works from vinyl database of music
creations
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Institutional Digital Archive - ORA (Open Research Archives)
USARB developed on DSpace platform, collects the full-text
of scientific and didactic publications of Balti academics,
giving them in open access.
Institutional policy of Alecu Russo Balti State University on
Open Access
(http://libruniv.usarb.md/profesional/politici.html) was
recorded in the International Register ROARMAP (Registry
of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies)
http://roarmap.eprints.org/999/
Colecţii/subco
lecţii
Autori, subiecte,
datele de editare
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13. Open LibraryDigital Library
The papers of Bălţi academics (teaching staff and librarians) are registrated in open libraries and open platforme:
Open Library, Calameo, Issuu, Scribd.
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14. • bibliometric services, setting Hirsch index of authors teachers;
• identification of journals with impact factor for publishing articles in the fields of the
profile;
• finding and presenting the ISI Journals databases accessed and in the collection of
periodicals, in particular from the collection of Journal Donation Project (New-York,
USA), information about scientometric databases and the way to use them.
Ion GAGIM
• h -index 4
• g- index 7
• hc- index 3
• hI - norm 4
New opportunities for academic researchers :
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Pavel Topală
h - index 4
g - index 5
hc - index 3
hI - norm 3
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15. INFORMATION LITERACY IN THE CONTEXT OF HIGHER EDUCATION
 From the simple promotion of librarian and bibliographic knowledge in
traditional manner realized in 1968-1990, joining us from the experience of
Europe's libraries (Germany-1960; Poland-1963; Hungary-1966, Russia-1966, )
academic librarians have passed the training scheduled for users with the
start of the process of informatization.
 2012-in accordance with the Rector's order nr. 05-596 of 26. 10. 2012, discipline
„The Base of Information Literacy" was included in the plans for education in
all specialities as a mandatory discipline training skills and general
competencies, volume of 30 hours (1 credit) (at the education day-10 hours of
direct contact and 20 hours for individual work, part-time education-6 hours of
direct contact and 24 hours working individually; for assessment 2 hours for
each group, regardless of the form of studies, through the notation
accepted/rejected).
 All responsibility in promoting this discipline revert to Scientific Library.
 Every year 9-10 librarians promote about 400 hours.
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66 electronic sources developed
by academic librarians of
Moldova were included in the
2nd edition (number of pages
668) Overview of Information
Literacy Resources Worldwide,
published by UNESCO in Paris
in 2014.
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16. The course of Information Literacy
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International Week of Open Access to
Information
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17. INFORMATION DAYS
The editorial saloon
Bălţi University
teachers”scientific
and didactic
contributions
Master”s,
Doctoral,Student”s
Monthly
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FRANCOPHONIE DAYS
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18. Scientific Publications, scientific-didactic works of librarians
PUBLICA
ȚII - 555
Cataloage
6
Materiale
promoționale
250
Bibliografii,
biobibliografi
i - 100
Dicíonare-4
Lucrări
didactice -6
Monografii -
35
Reviste – 2
Resurse
electronice
152
The librarians’ scientific research is carried on according
to the following research directions: Participatory
Management: principles and practice; Integration and
training, Professional comumunication: The Modern
library for the users of the XXth century, Development
of informational resources: politics, pecularities
experience/effects. The Publishing activity has been
intensified in the latest 15 years.
The journal of library sciences and information sciences
Bibliological Confluences, Bibliouniversitas@ABRM.md,
monographs, bibliographies, catalogues, dictionaries in
the collections: Bibliographia Universitas, Facultas
Biography-USARB, Vestigia Semper Adora, Information
Literacy, Doctors Honoris Causa, IN HONOREM, Bălţi
University personalities, Bălţi academics, Bălţi
University writers, Culture promotes, ABRM-20,
Professionalization.
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19. INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL COLLABORATIONS
The representatives of the Library are involved in the activity of the National Library Board
(CBN), Board of Libraries from higher education and specialized institutions, Librarians ‘
Association from Republic of Moldova(ABRM), Standardization Technical Comite
No.1,,Librarianship, Information, Documentation”.
The Library collaborates with about 30 partners from the Republic of Moldova, Romania,
Switzerland, USA, Ukraine, Russia, France, Lithuania, and Germany. This considerably
contributes to the growth of collections. About 26 projects of investment,
research/development and organization have been realized in the recent years.
Scientific Library USARB actively participate in building a modern, dynamic and informed
society through everything achieved.
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20. The project team
Elena Harconiţa- institutional coordinator
 Strengthening and modernization of the library ; raising of qualification of the library staff;
managerial activities relating to the administration and coordination of the project; polici -
es and strategies to the project; effective communication in the project; dealing with the
academic community for the creation and implementation of library services that will
support the process of education and scientific research in higher education; dissemination
and use of project results at the institutional and national level in order to promote knowle-
dge, experience, training opportunities and special abilities.
Aculina Mihaluţa- researcher, trainer, administrative
 Development training programs on adaptation of librarians, promoting the culture of the
educational information to members of the academic community, participation in the
elaboration and implementation of tutorials; realization of functions of the secretariat.
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21. Igor Afatin-technical staff
• Ensuring access to network support in the project, connections to the platform and e-learning
programmes, installations and necessary, techni-cal equipment , implementation and providing
innovative online services .
Valentina Topalo- researcher, trainer
• Training activities of librarians, communication and training academic community
members, translation activities , development and promotion of promotional
materials about the project.
PROJECT EXPECTATIONS :
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1. New knowledge and international partnerships .
2. Enhancing the role and importance of the library in academic environment in
the university and in society.
3. Diversification and optimisation of info-librarian services .
4. Libraian training English cource, up to date Information Litteracy, on-line services.
5. Skills and experiences at international standards.