Library aquisitions
• Current and retrospective acquisition of books, periodicals, graphic, electronic and audio-visual documents
• The policy of acquisition and development is determined by:
- the encyclopaedic profile of the library collection
- the structure of the already existing collection
- library users’ requests and needs
- the necessity of keeping a ballance between the different kinds of documents:
77,38% books,
16,28% periodicals,
5,76% audio-visual documents,
0,37% electronic documents,
0,21% other documents.
• The collection growth was financially supported in 50% from the state budget, in 4% from the own incomes and in 46% from donations. Thus, in 2008, the library has acquisitioned, 15,529 bibliographic units from all the domains.
• The department keeps the records (primary and individually) for the current entrances.
• Processes every periodicals entered the library collection and permanently up-dates the Alphabetic Catalogue for Periodicals.
• Deletes the withdrawn documents from the library records.
• Introduces the needed data for listing afterwards the inventory records.
• Shares out the library documents to the library departments.
• Starting with 1998, the processing of the documents is made electronically (ALICE Library Soft until 2005, LIBERTY, starting with 2006).