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THE NATIONAL AND ACADEMIC LIBRARIES IN GREECE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA LIBRARY.
Georgios K. ZachosDirector, University of Ioannina Library, Frm. Gen. Director, National Library of Greece
Outline
National Library of Greece Higher Education in Greece Greek Academic Libraries University of Ioannina Library
Role
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a) It Develops and preserves the national collection, which includes material produced in Greece, as well as material produced abroad but id connected or is relevant to the people, the country , the traditions, and the culture of Greece, in any given language or form. For this reason, it collects, processes, preserves, protects, presents and offers accessibility to the material of the collection to everyone, in an equal manner, keeping in mind the freedom of education, information, and research.
b) It develops activities relevant to its mission, in order to improve cultural and intellectual life of the country
c) Operates as national bibliographic and information centre and is a recipient of the mandatory deposit of material
Role
d) Compiles and publishes past and current national bibliography, as well as catalogues of manuscripts and printed material or in any other format that exist in its collection or in other libraries.
e) Operates as the official national centre of directions, guidelines and standards in matters related to bibliography, preservation, conservation, digitization and material restoration and produce the informational material related to them.
f) Provides national services of international book numbering, of books (ISBN), periodical publications (ISSN), music (ISMN)
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Collections Number Books (Titles) 800000 Books (volumes) 1700000 Journals – Newspapers (Titles) 12500 Journals – Newspapers (Bound Volumes) 450000 Journals – Newspapers (current subscriptions) 700 Audiovisual material 500 Microfilms 4500 Musical editions 2500 Incunabula 130 Early Prints 2500 Maps 3000 Engravings 3000 Reprints 10000 Dissertations 2000 Codices 4500 Papyrus (3 Greeks, 2 Egyptians, 1 Coptic) 6 Palimpsest manuscripts 8 Chrysoboulla (Imperial Documents), 15 Sigillia (Patriarchal documents), rotulus, 5 Archives (Collections) 256
Resources / Situation (Cont.) Infrastructure
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Library Building:Lack of space for Library operations, Housing of collection and
provision of services. Fragmentation of services in rented buildings
Information Technology infrastructure:Installation of new Hardware, software and network
infrastructure in recent years.
Higher Education in Greece (1)
Higher Education in Greece in Provided by the State (No Private Institutions)
Is divided into Universities and Technological Education Institutes (TEI).
Universities (23 Institutions) concentrate on theoretical and scientific studies. Divided into School and Departments
Technological Educational Institutes ( 14 Institutions) provide education and skills in technical, artistic, scientific and other professional fields.
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Educational System in Greece - Background Info
Provided for free in all levels Tertiary institutions (Universities & Higher Technological
Institutions) are autonomous, however the Ministry of Education is responsible for their funding, and the distribution of students to undergraduate courses
Admission to higher education: based on students’ performance in nationwide examinations
Undergraduate University courses: 4 years (5 in Engineering Schools and some Technical/Art Schools, 6 in Medical schools)
Postgraduate (MSc level) courses last from 1 to 2 years Doctorates (PhD level) from 3 to 6 years
Higher Education in Greece (2)
Multi campus Universities (Several places in a city, Campuses in a number of Cities ( Univ. of Thrace, Aegean, Crete, Peloponnesian i.e.).
Most Technical Institutions are located in several cities and towns.
Traditionally University Libraries were located in Departments, Schools or Campuses. Now most Universities have Central University Libraries.
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Greece - Epirus - Ioannina
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Ioannina
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University of Ioannina
The University of Ioannina is a medium size university in Greece
It is a Public University Offers a broad range of subject areas,
including humanities, arts, sciences, technologies, medicine and economics
Founded in 1964
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University of Ioannina in numbers
14 Academic Departments Large Campus, 6 kms from the Ioannina city
center (350 hectares, Premises: 236,250 sq.m.)
13,523 undergraduate students 3,517 postgraduate students 650 members of academic and research staff 78 members of technical & laboratory
teaching staff 230 members of administrative staff
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Academic Departments
School of Philosophy Department of Philology Department of History and
Archaeology Department of Philosophy, Education
and Psychology School of Sciences
Department of Mathematics Department of Physics Department of Chemistry Department of Computer Science
School of Education Department of Primary School
Education Department of Pre-School Education
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Academic Departments (Continued)
School of Medicine School of Sciences & Technologies
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Department of Biological Applications and Technologies
Department of Plastic Arts and Art Sciences Department of Economics
LIBRARY BUILDING
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Total building area 17.396,62 m2 Library area 14.127,93 m2 Six floors for library material
Room for continuing and bibliographic education Library auditorium, 140 seats
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Library Constitution (1)
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Consolidation of 16 departmental libraries 2002-2004: Medicine, Department of Biological
Applications and Technologies , Department of Economics , Department of Plastic Arts and Art Sciences, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
2004 -2005:Department of Chemistry, Department of Physics, Department of Computer Science, a part of Department of Mathematics, School of Education (Department of Primary School EducationDepartment of Pre-School Education, Department of Philosophy, Education and Psychology
2007 Department of History and Archaeology
Collections
Scientific books 320000
Books in Braille 600
CDs, Video,Microfilms 4.500
Old, Rare Books 25.000
Reprints 5.700
Students collection 8200
Slav collection 12000
Arabic collection 2600
Child collection 3400
Bound volumes of journals 210000
Bound volumes of newspapers 2400
Total collection 594400
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Subscriptions
Printed Journals 800
On-Line Journals 370 + 13500 ( Heal Link)
Bibliographic Databases 15 + 5 ( Heal Link)
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Library Constitution (2)
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Special collections (Arabic & Slavic collection) (2006) Student collection (2007) Donations (2007) Child collection (2007) Braille collection (2005) Rare book collection (2007)
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Administrative Structure
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• Administration and Financial Management Department• Services and Collections Department• Acquisitions Department • Cataloguing Department• Electronic services Department
Hardware
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Servers, (Information management systems, Web, Digital collections)
Users PC’s: 45 Total PC’s: 75 Photocopiers: 8 Photocopier- Scanners: 10 Braille Readers Book Scanners Wi-Fi Network etc.
Software
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Information Library Management System (Horizon) OCR etc. Web Design Monitoring electronic subscriptions In Cite Web site:
http://www.lib.uoi.gr
Staff
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Librarians 15
Administrative staff 6
Computer scientists 1 ( FT) + 3 PT
Supporting staff ( Post-graduate students) 9
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Puno Hvala !!!!
Library Site: www.lib.uoi.gr
Personal Site: www.gzachos.gr
E-mail: [email protected] & [email protected]