SCIENTIFIC AND TECH LIBRARY
LIBRARY
SCIENTIFIC AND TECH LIBRARY
The Scientific and Technical Library of the NCIE is well known for its unique rich specialized funds in the Republic and overseas.
The library’s documentation fund is about 19219807 names / 21931908 examples of library documents, including branches from 2021 to now. Here are the funds of unique scientific-technical documents in the Republic: patent, normative-technical, industrial catalogs, deposited scientific works, experimental-design-reports of scientific-research elaborations, etc.
The library’s reading rooms are implemented information and library services and a patent search of about 18 million patent documents. Users enjoy free Internet and international scientific and technical information databases (EBSCO, SpringerLink BioONE, Oxford Reference Online, OARE Online Access to Research in the Environment, Britannica Online Encyclopaedia, etc.), electronic library catalog, using modern information and communication technologies.
The library of the NCIE is a governmental vocational library that collects documents related to applied science and serves not only individual readers but also companies, universities, government departments, enterprises in various sectors of industry. In addition, NCIE’s library is a proud member of the Electronic Library Consortium of America (eLCA) and Electronic Libraries and New Information Technologies (ELNIT).
The IRBIS-64 system of automation of library processes has invested in organizing the library-information service of the beneficiaries using modern information technologies. The number of entries is about 313000 documents, including about 26000 entries of analytical descriptions of scientific and technical articles of journals. Thanks to the latter, it is possible to carry out the Electronic Document Delivery Service (DDS).
The number of library visits was 7889 in 2021 (the number of readers is 7870 people, and the number of collective subscribers is 266, including the contracted number, which is 10). The average user fee was 170381 copies of library documents, including branches.