The Research Library of South Ural State University

Contact information

Address: 87, Lenin Prosp., Chelyabinsk, 454080, Russia
Phone: +7-(351-2)-33-58-82, +7-(351-2)-33-95-56
Fax: +7-(351-2)-34-74-08
E-mail: info@lib.tu-chel.ac.ru
WWW: http://www.lib.tu-chel.ac.ru/LANG=en/

Organizational structure

Management

• Director. Julia V. Levandovskaya. Tel: +7-(351-2)-39-93-57
• Reference. Irena P. Burger. Tel: +7-(351-2)-39-93-69

Department of acquisition. Valetina N. Grinenko. Tel: +7-(351-2)-39-94-06
Department of scientific processing of the literature. Antonina N. Motorina. Tel: +7-(351-2)- 39-93-87
Department of book storing. Galina M. Dreomova Tel: +7-(351-2)-39-94-75
Department of the scientific literature. Natalia A. Yakovleva. Tel: +7-(812)-
Department of the educational literature for junior students. Valentina S. Makarova. Tel: +7-(351-2) 39-97-93
Department of the educational literature for the undergraduate students. Rimma P. Knjazkina Tel: +7-(351-2)-39-94-74
A department of the art literature. Ludmila V. Yesina. Tel: +7-(351-2)-39-94-17
Seintific bibliographical a department. Natalia V. Bisjarina. Tel: +7-(351-2)-39-94-05
Interlibrary subscription. Irena H. Kuchukova. Tel: +7-(351-2)-39-94-22
Scientific-methodical departmen. Tatiana Y. Galtseva. Tel: +7-(351-2)-39-94-78
Information system of Library. Galina N. Zelenina. Tel: +7-(351-2)-39-93-89

Library information

Library Staff. Total: 104, 72 have higher education, 50 of them have librarian higher education; 32 have secondary education, 8 of them have librarian secondary education
Year Library Founded - 1943
Previous Names - The Scientific Library of the Chelyabinsk Polytechnical Institute
Library Building - 6970 sq.m
Registered Users: - students, the teaching staff, lecturers, researchers, post-graduate students, employees and workers of the University: 48830 in 1995 year, 45270 in 1994 year
Circulation - 371780 in 1995 year, 363530 in 1994 year
Population Served: registered users and all the population of Chelyabinsk region
Restrictions on use - readers who are not students or staff of the University served in reading rooms only
Number of Book Volumes - 2082773 entries, 267973 titles
Periodicals - 266538 entries
Language of Publications - 2029764 Russian language entries, 52609 entries ( 25% of all collection) - a foreign language literature: English, German, French, Polish, Czech
Audio-visuals - 5168 microfish, 13 diskettes and CD-ROM
Type of Catalogs

• public alphabetical and classified catalogs:
  - of books
  - of periodicals
  - of serials
  - of special science technology literature
  - of dissertation abstracts
  - of foreign literature

  general catalog - inner (nonpublic) catalogs of library departments stocks

  - the literature published after 1974

  - the electronoc catalog that is accessible both from catalog terminals located in the

  catalog hall or in the reading rooms and from the any terminal, connected to the

  Universities network

Guides and Publication

• the articles about the library automation experiance and the electronic catalog proceedings published in journals
  - "Vyssheye obrazovaniye v Rossiy" (1995, N3)
  - "Nauchnye i Tekhnicheskiye Biblioteki"(1995,N 10-11)
  - "Biblioteka" (1996, N6 - 2 articles accepted for publication)
  - "Nauchnye i Tekhnicheskiye Biblioteki"(1995, N 10-11 - 8 articles accepted for
  publication)

Computers in Library

• 2 servers (Novell, UNIX)
• 5-IBM PC/AT-486
• 7-IBM PC/AT-386
• 2 terminal stations for 20 users in the catalog hall and in the readins rooms

Technical Equipment

• the local network of the library is onesegmented and multiprotocol (IPX, TCP/IP, LAN) on the base of the Ethernet

Automated Catalog

• science and technology literature since 1974
• all literature since 01.01.1994
• full collection of the dissertation abstracts
• official documents since 01.01.1996

Global Informational Systems

• http://www.urc.ac.ru - the server of the University

Funding Source

• the federal budget
• the poor financing does not cover the necessities of the teaching process
• technical equipment and the expenditures

Future Plans

• full automation and corresponding restructuring of the library
• the online access to the information network from the library reading rooms and from the University network
• librarie's work in the Internet

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