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- 1. 7/6/2018 1 Academic Library Servicesas Research Support at Kaunas University of Technology Kaunas • the second biggest city in Lithuania (312,120) • on the confluence of the two rivers • famous for its basketball team “Žalgiris” 1
- 2. 7/6/2018 2 Established in 1922 Underits current name since 1990 Number of students: 9 818 (7 262 undergraduate, 2 239 masters, 558 international students and 317 PhD students) Alumni: ~144 000 Academic Staff: ~665 6 main fields of study: technological, physical, biomedicine, social sciences, arts and humanities Number of study programmes: 144 (including 62 in English, 66 undergraduate, 64 masters, 18 PhD programmes) Kaunas University of Technology: Facts and Figures 2 Main Library and 5 Faculty Libraries Departments: • Reader Services • Information Services • Research Information Services • Information Resources Management Service • Rare Books The services are provided in: • loan departments, • reading rooms, • group work rooms, • virtually. Structure of the Library 3
- 3. 7/6/2018 3 • Number ofthe Library staff – 47 • Number of registered customers – 15 134 • Number of visits – 0.44 mln. • Work-places for customers - 687 • Computer workstations for users - 119 • Print Library Collection – 1.07 mln. • Subscribed databases - 55 • Connections to the Library information system – 1.2 mln. • Full-text downloads from the subscribed databases – 0.983 mln. The Library in numbers 4 Charles Darwin (1809–1882) said "Change or Die" It's time to change 5
- 4. 7/6/2018 4 Strategy of KTULibrary (since 2014) 6 • Provide individualized thematic consultations and assistance • Inform about library resources and services • Develop users’ (students, academic staff and researchers) information competence • Organize educational and cultural events • How to develop training materials? • How to organize and provide training? • How to communicate with users? • How to manage information effectively? • How to share and disseminate information using technologies? • … New position at the Library: subject librarians 7
- 5. 7/6/2018 5 • manager; • teacher; •listener; • reliable, visible and accessible friend; • a competent and helpful assistant (for students and academic staff); • consultant on Scientific Communication (for researchers) ... (Allison, 2013; Kwanya et al., 2015) How many hats does a modern librarian have to wear at the same time ? 8 Training Librarians Monthly training sessions Internal resources – librarians (experience, topics) Guest lecturers/trainers from other university departments Information providers (workshops) Weekly English classes Provided by colleagues (professionals in the English language) What can we do without big money? 9
- 6. 7/6/2018 6 Training sessions forlibrarians 10 Training users In groups Individual Hands-on trainings Invited publishers Webinars Creating supplementary material Video tutorials Support and help guides Subject guides Training sessions for users 11
- 7. 7/6/2018 7 Library information systemand services; Library information system (for PhD students); Search strategy at the Library; Information search in the Library catalogue and KTU virtual library; Search and ordering publications in the catalogue; Scientific information search; Search e-resources from subscribed databases; Citation and copyright; Scholarly communication and open access; How to find a journal for publishing; … Topics of training sessions 12 Information display screens at the Library and departments on the Library website http://ktu.edu on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ktubiblioteka Video training material on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCakUO 49Hj-8VntzpSP6Hbxg/featured GooglePlus https://plus.google.com/107058993393357 947665 Information about Library services and training sessions 13
- 8. 7/6/2018 8 Training sessions forinternational students 14 KTU Library for Open Science 15 2018 – 2021 OpenAIRE-Advance (OpenAIRE Advancing Open Scholarship) 2015 – 2018 OpenAIRE2020 (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe 2020) 2011 – 2014 OpenAIRE plus (2nd Generation of Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe) 2009 – 2011 OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe) National Open Access Desk (NOAD) at KTU: information dissemination, support and coordination of OA events in Lithuania. http://www.openaire.eu
- 9. 7/6/2018 9 National Repository: Lithuanian AcademicElectronic Library eLABa 16 Library ensures access to scientific publications, final theses and doctoral theses preserved in the institutional repository. KTU ePubl repository on the base of eLABa operates since 2015. • Scientific publications metadata (~ 1800) created in eLABa PDB per year. • Bachelor's and Master's theses (~ 2000) uploaded and checked for plagiarism in eLABa ETD per year. KTU subscribes to • Web of Science / JCR / InCites http://isiknowledge.com • Scopus http://www.scopus.com Bibliometric indicators from the Web of Science and Scopus are used to evaluate research results in the institution and nationally. The Library •prepares reports of KTU scientific publications (individual researchers, research groups) •analyses publications of research groups •compares KTU research results with results from other universities Scientific analysis tools 17
- 10. 7/6/2018 10 • choose theright journal for publication • promote the visibility of publications • promote open access as it provides greater visibility and faster international citations We • promote international co-operation and international co-authorship • carry out bibliometric analysis according to the fields of science to identify strengths and weaknesses • organize publisher workshops: how and where to publish articles • organize training sessions on Research Data Management We help researchers to: 18 Please visit us at www.ktu.edu/en/library and in Kaunas! Thank you for your attention!