| budget |
- 15 staff positions
- Acquisition budget: €567,597
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| Building and equipment |
- 2 locations
- 82 opening hours per week
- 621 reading spaces (WLAN), including 45 PC workstations
- 2,993 m² total area
- Work areas for focused work, for work groups, as well as for relaxation and communication, e.g. individual workstations, group workrooms, computer rooms, think tanks
- Team monitors for collaborative work via WLAN
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| Lernort+ |
A "one-stop shop" for academic work with the following services:
- Campus licenses for the reference management software Citavi and Endnote
- Credit points within modules, e.g. the module "Work techniques and information competence"
- Promoting information literacy (advice, courses and events for different target groups, e.g., orientations for first-year students, database research…)
- Promoting writing skills (writing advice, writing workshops and other services to support the writing process)
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| media |
The collection focuses primarily on STEM subjects and economics. Media are preferably acquired in electronic form.
Electronic media
- 87 databases, e.g. Beck-Online, Business Source Premier, WISO
- 44,391 eJournals, e.g. B. American Chemical Society (ACS Journals), IEEE, Oxford University Press, SpringerLink, Wiley
- 172,282 eBooks, e.g., Campus, Hanser, IEEE, NetLibrary, Oldenbourg, Pearson, Schäffer-Poeschel, Springer eBook Collection (eBooks from the fields of engineering, computer science and economics, chemistry and materials science from the publishers Springer, Gabler, Teubner, Vieweg), Vahlen
- Standards (Nautos database; DIN, GEFMA, VDI, IEEE Standards series, VDE-Normenbibliothek; Standards Infopoint of Beuth-Verlag)
- Rosetta Stone language learning program
Printed media
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| Online services and systems |
- Workplace booking system
- Ordering options (from the library's holdings, document delivery services, interlibrary loan, purchase orders for employees)
- Database Information System (DBIS)
- Electronic Journals Library (EZB)
- Course booking system
- Self-service terminals for borrowing, returning and paying fees
- THMfind search portal (metasearch engine for searching electronic and printed media, user account with renewal option)
- Appointment booking system
- Access to electronic media from outside via VPN or via the Shibboleth authentication system
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| Publish |
- Publication consulting
- Publication fund
- Publication server
- THM-Hochschulschriften
- Publisher publications (Open Access)
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| Outlook 2023/24 |
- Expansion of the FlexiBib - Use the library even if you don't see any staff on site.
- Establishment of further contact options, e.g., bibChat
- Expansion of writing resources, e.g., on ways to label AI-generated content in scientific texts
- Expansion of the Lernlandschaftat both locations
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