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change of the quality of services, the library spaces needed to be modernized. Many innovative solutions were successfully implemented thanks to great organizational skills and dynamic leadership of Janina Ligman, Director of the Gdańsk Tech
Library (1982–2000). She decided to optimize the storage of the library materials with mobile storage shelving system, which was not a common practice in Poland back in the 1990s.
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trainings conducted by the librarians. Since then the library has been offering its two comfortable reading rooms and one open space with open shelves organized by study subjects. This modern method of displaying the library collections was supposed to provide free access to shelves where users can choose by themselves the books they are interested in.
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did significant damage to the collection – the books that were left in the
Library were totally destroyed and only 3% of the book collection driven away in 1945 was regained by the University many years later (2000). The Main Building of the university where the library was located suffered the most
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University of Technology Library as well as the history of University itself is marked by two dates: 1904 and 1945. The Library was established along with the Königliche Technische Hochschule zu Danzig in 1904. It has been located in the Main Building of the Campus, roughly
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It was not until the 1950s when the
University main building was reconstructed and the library could be moved to the renovated interiors. Bringing the library back into existence became possible thanks to the professional commitment of the first directors of the Library, especially Marian Des Loges
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Library has been playing a leading role in the implementation of the Pomeranian Digital Library project (since 2010). The digital library provides access to cultural and scientific objects (e.g. manuscripts, early printed books, 19th and early-20th-century books, textbooks and some
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Eight branches with reading rooms at the faculties of: Chemistry and
Applied Physics and Mathematics (Nanotechnology Regional Library), Architecture, Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, Electrical and Control Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and
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One of the main purposes of the Gdańsk
University of Technology Library is to promote and support the internationalisation of higher education at the university. The library offers many learning opportunities for students from all around the world and seeks to provide all users with a comfortable
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The year 2000 is considered a landmark year in the history of the library and the university due to the fact that a part of the precious library book collection (originally belonged to Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Danzig) evacuated by prof. Ernst Witt in 1945 to Germany came back to Gdańsk. In
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In the early 1990s the Library was courageously entering a new era of computing. The library took steps towards the implementation of integrated library systems – at first it was APIS-ZB (1993), followed by VTLS/VIRTUA library computer system (2003) which has been in use until now. Along with the
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The library reopened its doors in 1945. In September, under the governmental decree, the University officially became a Polish state academy. The library staff (3 librarians) attempted to recreate the library integrating the books scattered in Gdańsk and in the area surrounding the city into one
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Library was established in 1945. The Library collects books, journals and electronic publications that cover full range of disciplines represented at all eight faculties constituting the Gdańsk University of Technology. Each Gdańsk Tech faculty has its own branch library with a reading room.
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Aside from the printed collections, the library provides a rich array of electronic resources. Tens of online databases offer scholarly full text journals licensed from many of the world's most prestigious academic publishers such as Elsevier, IEEE, Nature, Emerald, Knovel and many more.
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and Barbara Mielcarzewicz. Gradually, the first post-war library managers formed new organizational structures, enlarged collections of Polish and foreign language technical literature and adjusted the library's services to the new realities.
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environment providing access to well-managed library collections and other services. The main objectives of the internationalisation process include library staff mobility and cooperation and support of several library and
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The Library collections were dynamically growing – from 26 000 volumes in the years 1908–1909 to 150 000 in 1943. In 1923 the Library received a valuable donation from Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Danzig
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