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Centre for Russian Studies

The Centre for Russian Studies, which opened on 30 June 2010, held a series of themed monthly public lectures, courses and events. The collection comprises hundreds of works from classical and contemporary Russian literature, reference works on art, theatre, history and religion, and CDs and DVDs with audio books, study material and Russian films. The [...]

Introduction of FogBugz bug-tracking system

In 2011, the Library Infrastructure Development and Management department introduced the FogBugz bug-tracking system. Aim To improve the service to internal and external customers by means of structured problem management and problem-status information. To improve monitoring of suppliers by maintaining a more accurate overview of reported problems. To record the frequency of, and throughput time [...]

Law Library

Visitor numbers University Library

Visitor numbers University Library

Lending statistics 2011

Lending statistics 2011

Relocation of the Library of Philosophy to the Library Reading Room

Study landscape at the spot of the former Philosophy Library In the spring of 2011, the Library of Philosophy was moved from the Faculty to the fourth floor of the University Library. The decision to relocate the library facility was taken jointly by the boards of the Faculty and the Library. The Faculty, which has [...]

Discovery Tool

  In 2011, the Discovery Tool project team studied the features of the Discovery Services offered by the four main providers, namely SUMMON, EBSCO, Primo and WorldCatLocal. Reports by sister organizations facing similar decisions were requested and read. The fact that OCLC did not market WorldCatLocal in Europe until 2011 meant that the views of [...]

Retrodigitization

This project began with a pilot study (April-October 2010), with the aim of formulating a protocol for digitizing various groups of material and making them available online, namely books and journals, and Greek papyri. These were chosen because it is expected that the majority of material that will be digitized will consist of texts and [...]

External Communication

External Communication

The objective of the ‘University of Groningen Library – External Communication’ project was to assess the existing communication processes of the various Library departments and advise on the use of communication resources, enabling the Library to communicate even more effectively with its target groups. At the beginning of September 2011, Sylvia Daskalova was tasked with [...]

Phasing-out of LBS3

Migration to LBS version 2.8.2 is being prepared with OCLC. This version is required for WorldCat Selection and (possibly) for WorldCat Local. In the final months of 2011, all outstanding LBS problems in FogBugz were recorded and compared to outstanding calls at OCLC, in Leiden as well as the USA. This resulted in an improved [...]

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