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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

National & University Library Croatia

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)



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


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.


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.


Greece - Epirus - Ioannina


Ioannina


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


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


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


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


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

Library Constitution (1)


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


Subscriptions

Printed Journals 800

On-Line Journals 370 + 13500 ( Heal Link)

Bibliographic Databases 15 + 5 ( Heal Link)


Library Constitution (2)


Special collections (Arabic & Slavic collection) (2006) Student collection (2007) Donations (2007) Child collection (2007) Braille collection (2005) Rare book collection (2007)

Administrative Structure


• Administration and Financial Management Department• Services and Collections Department• Acquisitions Department • Cataloguing Department• Electronic services Department

Hardware


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


Information Library Management System (Horizon) OCR etc. Web Design Monitoring electronic subscriptions In Cite Web site:

http://www.lib.uoi.gr

http://www.lib.uoi.gr/


Staff


Librarians 15

Administrative staff 6

Computer scientists 1 ( FT) + 3 PT

Supporting staff ( Post-graduate students) 9

Puno Hvala !!!!

Library Site: www.lib.uoi.gr

Personal Site: www.gzachos.gr

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