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How to Get a Library Card - after you have been issued an AUBG ID card, please come with it to the library Circulation desk and we’ll register you as a regular library patron. Any time you need to check out library materials, please present this card to the Circulation librarian.
Borrowing Library Materials – Faculty may borrow up to 30 items at a time for at least 90 days period. Faculty is not charged overdue fines, but professional courtesy requires regular returning of library materials. Upon patron's request some of the borrowed materials will be recalled.
Online Book Renewal - Faculty may renew items online through the AUBG Online Public Access Catalog. After you have entered the library’s page you need to log in the Patron access section, which you can find on the left upper corner of the screen. Your log-in name and password are just the same as your barcode (as printed on the back of your AUBG ID). You can arrange to change your password at the Circulation desk. Once you have logged in, you have the option of renewing the borrowed materials. Each item may only be renewed once online. If you need to renew them again, please, bring the items to the AUBG library Circulation desk or call ext. 341. See also Patron access
Online Requests - Faculty may request on-loan library items, through the AUBG Online Public Access Catalog. Log in the Patron access with your library barcode and your password. Search for the needed material. After you have found the item, click on "Request” button, fill in the form and submit it. Faculty requests are treated by the system with privilege.
Overdue/Lost Library Materials
- when library
materials are overdue, you will be notified by e-mail. If library materials
are lost you are expected to cover its full cost plus $ 10 shipping and
processing fees.
Panitza library provides access to both print and online reserves. Reserve items in print are kept behind Circulation Desk, and are considered to be for library use only. Electronic reserve materials are included in the library‘s online catalog and may be searched by course number and instructor's name. They are accessible only via the AUBG network and can be viewed by directly following the links in the catalog record.
Types of materials you may place on reserve
- Personal
materials - they will be treated so that they can be controlled by our
security system. The library will not be able to replace any stolen or
mutilated material.
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Photocopied materials – photocopies of periodicals articles, part of
books, exams, projects or homework assignments may be placed on reserve.
As a general rule of thumb, we suggest one copy of an article for every
10 students registered for the class. Supplying the photocopies is the
responsibility of the faculty member.
- Reference materials - materials housed in the reference room may not be put on reserve. If class assignments require using a specific reference book, please notify the Head of Access librarian.
Print
reserves
Leave your print reserves at the Reserve desk and fill out the Print Reserves Form. In all cases, professors should provide the
material at least one week before the readings are
assigned.
Technical
services librarians process materials Monday to Friday from 8 am till
5 pm.
Online Reserves
Access to
the online reserves is available through the library’s web page but
only within
the AUBG network. We
support direct linking to the collection of subscribed journals articles
and e-books, rather than digitizing from print.
For online
materials - send the filled Electronic
Reserves Form to libmail@aubg.bg
Electronic copies of journal articles or book chapters should be sent
either as an email attachment or, if they are on CD-ROM or disk,
forwarded to a librarian. We prefer these files in Adobe PDF format, but
we will also accept: raw text, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, jpeg, gif,
etc.
Library materials placed
online using dotLRN
Course Management System are subject to the same policies as other
electronic reserve items.
Fair Use
and Copyright
Please refer to Legal and Moral Issues Regarding Information for more information about copyright and “fair use”.
If your materials fall within Fair Use guidelines, copyright permission is not necessary for e-reserve or photocopying:
- Up to 10 % of a single book.
- One article from a single issues of periodical title.
Exceptions above:
Multiple essays, stories, poems, etc. written by different authors but included in the same book, e.g. anthologies, textbooks.
If you need to exceed these parameters, faculty must request copyright permission from the publishers.
Library Copyright Policy on Reserves
Panitza library routinely accepts and places single and/or multiple copies
of copyrighted materials received from AUBG faculty on reserve under the
following conditions:
·
The
photocopies are considered to be the instructor's property. Library
assumes that any copies submitted for reserve have been made in
compliance with the copyright laws and the AUBG policy.
·
A
faculty may provide duplicate photocopies (three at most) when a course
is large enough to require more than one of an assigned photocopy.
·
Panitza
Library staff will not photocopy materials for faculty to place on
reserve.
·
The
appropriate warning notice is stamped on reserve materials.
·
Panitza
Library will, at the end of the semester, return to faculty all copies
of materials that have been placed on reserve. Faculty may not reuse
copyright material in subsequent semesters or years without obtaining
permission from the copyright owner.
·
Whenever
possible, materials should be provided to the library electronically.
If you have
questions on Reserve, please call the library
staff on ext. 341.
The Reference Services division of the Panitza Library is dedicated to delivering the library services that meet the informational and research needs of AUBG students and faculty. Reference staff provides timely and useful information in the most relevant format (printed or electronic) to faculty. The services include:
- Research assistance related to curriculum development and information resources support
- Library orientation tours (library physical structure, searching the catalog and databases, etc.)
- Instruction of how to use the library informational resources
- In-depth research assistance
- Discipline specific web guides
- Print handouts which support research assignments
- User guides for electronic resources (See LibGuides)
More services:
- Faculty visits - available by appointment. They provide the opportunity for a faculty member to meet with a reference librarian to discuss library resources and bibliographic research tools, including online databases. You may request a faculty visit using the Reference assistance form on the library’s web page.
- Email service - in response to electronic inquiries from faculty members the reference librarians can answer brief, factual questions, recommend search strategies and resources, explain library policies and procedures and make referrals. Faculties may use special Assistance Form on the library web-page or Meebo - live chat with reference librarian.
If the reference question requires in-depth research we recommend that you visit the library. Contact email – libmail@aubg.bg
Reference desk working hours: Monday – Friday, 9:00 – 19:00h
Librarian for contact: T. Borisova tel. 888354, 888341
Information Literacy, which
the AUBG library offers aims at:
1. Teaching library users how to locate and use library materials
2. Teaching library users how to evaluate the information they find
3. Introducing library users to search the library online catalog and
databases
4. Teaching library users how to select the most appropriate investigative
methods or information retrieval systems for accessing the needed information
5. Helping library users to become aware of information, as it exists in
its different formats: print, electronic, etc.
See Information Literacy Presentation and LibGuides.
Faculty is given the opportunity to be trained in the
topics listed below:
1. General library tour – getting known to the library’s physical
structure and general services and resources.
2. Library full-text periodicals databases – EBSCO, JSTOR, ProQuesr,
ScienceDirect etc.
3. Online Reference Resources – Britannica Online, Oxford Reference
Online
To schedule training, call the Information Literacy librarian - G. Georgieva at ext. 378. or email or visit LibGuides.
The Panitza Library supports Faculty's research needs offering wide range of additional resources via ILL and Document Delivery services. Our main partners for interlibrary loan borrowing service are the British Library Document Supply Center, the Library of Congress and SUBITO Document Delivery Service. Each faculty member can order free of charge up to 5 books or journal articles that are not owned by AUBG library for each academic year. The requester himself should pay for requests exceeding this limit. He/she should submit a completed request form for each item to the interlibrary loan librarian or to the reference librarian. Paper request forms can be found at the reference desk or at the technical services office. Requests can be submitted electronically by filling the request form on the library’s web page. Requests can be sent also by email to ill@aubg.bg. Faculty members, who have assigned special projects to senior students, must present a list of their names to ILL librarian to authorize them for interlibrary loan service.
For information about Interlibrary loan service please contact the interlibrary loan librarian N. Ivanova -Bell at 073 888340.
This is an easy way to access new information from currently subscribed e-periodicals.
Data providers EBSCO, Proquest , JSTOR and ScienceDirect provide such a services. You will be alerted as soon as the new issues become available and content will be delivered directly to your email address. You can receive email alerts for saved searches, tracked journals (eToc), and tracked citations. You nave to log on and create an account. For more information contact reference librarians at libmail@aubg.bg, ext. 354.
Proposals
As Faculty members you are encouraged to participate actively in our collection development process and your recommendations for filling gaps in specific subject areas, proposals for books or periodicals titles on specific subjects will be highly appreciated. To help processing the orders and recommendations, please use our Suggestions for New Books and/or Periodicals available in electronic version at http://www.aubg.bg/library or contact the acquisition librarian Ms. M. Mehandjiiska, ext. 339, or Serials librarian ext. 341, 340.
Serials selection process
The serials selection process includes consultations with the departments’ coordinators in regards to which titles to be cancelled and which titles to be subscribed to for the next year. The serials department staff prepares and distributes to the faculty members, who are department coordinators, lists of all subscribed periodicals connected with the subjects they are teaching. These lists contain also information about the electronic journals available to the university community through the subscribed aggregated online databases JSTOR, ProQuest, ScienceDirect and EBSCO. Some advertising materials about new published journals are given for consideration to department heads. Then the department coordinators’ proposals are discussed with the division chairs and the library director. For making final decision, the Library Collection Development Group takes into account the usage of the periodicals, availability in the electronic databases, relevance to the university curriculum and the price appropriateness.
Gifts
Gifts in English
The AUBG Library accepts either solicited or unsolicited library materials, as well as monetary contributions. Due to the high costs of managing the gift process, the Library's goal in accepting gifts is to acquire only materials, which are highly relevant to the AUBG needs.
Gifts of all types of library materials should be directed to the Library
Director, who evaluates them by consulting the Collection Development Group and faculty members. In case of large collections of donations, the Collection Development Group makes decision after careful discussion and explains the reason of refusal/accept to the donor. Materials are evaluated for retention on the same basis as purchased items. The Library is not obliged to retain gifts that fail to meet its selection criteria. Therefore potential donors are requested to provide a list of the suggested materials for donation to the Library Director. It is up to the discretion of the Library Director and Collection Development Group to decide whether to accept or reject the donation based on their evaluation of its importance and relevance to the AUBG curricula and collection currency.
When large donations are offered, the Library requires a list of titles (incl. edition, publisher, date of publication) to be provided before shipment. Only the titles evaluated for inclusion will be shipped to the University. If the whole collection is shipped, the donor takes responsibility for the shipment charges.
The Library does not appraise gift items, and any appraisal information used by the donor for tax purposes is the responsibility of the donor.
The Library sends the donor an acknowledging letter, which includes a description of the gift, but not the value of the gift.
When a monetary donation is given, the Library adheres to reasonable wishes of the donor, such as the purchase of particular titles or works within a given subject area (if the library collects materials in this subject area).
The Library does not usually accept or retain the following types of material:
· Material whose subject matter does not fall within the current collection objectives
· Textbooks (except these in high use on courses thought at the university).
· Outdated material (unless historically significant)
· Odd copies of periodicals (unless needed to complete holdings in the collection)
· Paperbacks of recreational readings
· Books whose physical condition is so poor that they would not warrant processing and cataloging
· Newspapers (unless historically significant)
· Duplicate copies of materials that the Library owns (unless there is great demand for a particular title, or if they can be used to replace worn copies).
· Gifts in other languages than English and Bulgarian are accepted if they support classes in Modern Languages Department: German, Spanish, French.
Gifts in non-English languages
Accepting/rejecting donations in non-English languages
After careful discussion of the various practice in accepting donations throughout the years since 1992, and as a result of the experience gained from non-English materials usage in the library, the Collection Development Group (CDG) of the AUBG Library agreed on the following guidelines regarding integration of non-English materials to the AUBG Library collection:
1.1.BULGARIAN language materials:
Accepted and added to the collection are the following categories of donated titles:
· Reference works – proved to be in great demand for students working on projects and papers on Bulgarian economics, politics, history, translation. Examples: “English-Bulgarian Law Dictionary”, “Who is Who in Bulgarian business”, Bulgarian companies directories, etc.
· State historical material supporting Balkan history courses;
· Statistical works of the National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria;
· Bulgarian National Bank Reports;
· Works by AUBG Board Members and Board of Trustees Members;
· Bulgarian NGO’s periodicals with the following retaining periods in the library stock: bulletins and newsletters : 3 years; magazines – 5 years;
· Works representing Bulgarian classical literature and humanistic thought.
· Bilingual editions of works in English translated into Bulgarian and vice versa.
Rejected and stored in the storage area and then distributed to other libraries in Bulgaria are the following categories of donated items:
· Fiction and memoirs by local authors;
· Narrowly specialized academic works;
· Bulgarian translations from English of titles that the Library possesses in English;
· Religious or spiritual literature in Bulgarian language with limited curricula or research potential;
· Materials considered duplicate copies of rarely used items;
· Older editions of monographs already in the stacks;
· Material which is considered only “part of the whole” and there is a little likelihood of receiving or purchasing the complete set.
1.2. OTHER LANGUAGES:
The AUBG Library responsiveness to the multicultural students needs has resulted in
accepting periodicals donations in Romanian, Macedonian and other native languages of AUBG students. The AUBG Periodicals Dept. accepts current subscriptions as well as complete sets of back issues. The donated periodicals should be relevant to the courses taught at the AUBG.
The Library does not catalog nor add to the collections donated monographs in Serbian, Macedonian, Hungarian, Greek, Russian, Albanian, etc.
Last updated 24.08.2011
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