Central Library
Facts and Figures:
General Information
700 000 Printed volumes
134 000 Digital resources
17 000 Print journals
64 000 Print book titles
Users
53 000 Users (registered & virtual)
360 000 Units (physical & virtual) in 2018
Library Spaces
Total area: 2 014 square meters
7 Reading Rooms
230 Seats
50 Computers for individual use
Reading Rooms
Coworking University City LIC 405
Reading Room of Social & Economic Literature N 218
Olga Krytska
Library Director
Circulation Desk Services:
- carries out the user's registration, their operational service in an automated mode
- provides for temporary use educational, methodological, reference, scientific, fiction
- provides consultations on the use of the electronic catalog, information resources
- executes order on-line and for interlibrary loan
- provides users with open Wi-Fi area, places for study and rest
Reading Rooms Services:
- provides open access to educational, scientific, popular editions, fiction, and electronic resources
- organizes thematic and informational exhibitions of literature
- automated workplaces, copying equipment, open Wi-Fi area
Svitlana Kryachok
Head of the Department
Event Room:
- organization of events, excursions, exhibitions
- prepares and carries out cultural and educational events and focuses on exhibition activity such as organization and holding of painting, decorative and applied arts, photo exhibitions of professional artists and amateurs
Iryna Kovalenko
Deputy Director
- organizes access to subscribed international electronic databases, systems for checking academic texts for plagiarism
- provides the administration and support of the repository SumDU eSSUIR, "UFD / Library", Automated Library Information System
- provides functioning and support of electronic resources of its own generation, implement new services, provides methodological recommendations for working
- ensures the functioning and content of the library website
- organizes the library users’ registration and passes to the hostel
- organizes work on computer maintenance and library software
- carries out training and counseling on the following issues:
➠ academic integrity
➠ the basics of informational, digital and media literacy
➠ checking academic texts for plagiarism Unichek, Strikeplagiarism
➠ formation and optimization of the Research Profile in systems of unique scientific identifiers: Scopus, ORCID, Google Scholar, Researcher ID, ResearchGate
➠ use of scientometric databases Scopus, Web of Science
➠ identifying of scientometric authors’ indicators according to the scientometric platforms Scopus, Web of Science selection of editions for the research results publication
➠ work with subscribed international databases of educational and scientific resources
➠ registration, filling in and documents’ search in the open electronic archive of the University repository Electronic Sumy State University Institutional Repository (eSSUIR)
Yana Rudenko
Head of the Department
- provides a reference, bibliographic and informational services to all users categories
- informs about new receipts, organizes thematic book exhibitions
- forms an electronic database of analytical descriptions of articles and materials from periodicals and collections
- prepares bibliographic lists and indexes including
- prepares thematic information digests on the following topics:
➠ information technology (IT Digest)
➠ sociocultural management, journalism, and translation (Media Digest)
➠ development of technical and engineering sciences (Techno Digest)
➠ modern trends in science (Scientific Digest)
➠ economics, finance, and management (Economic Digest)
➠ holds consultations, seminars, lectures of Higher Education
➠ selection of the literature on the topic
➠ creating Bibliographical Lists for academic works
➠ use of international citation styles
➠ work with bibliographic managers Mendeley, EndNote, Zotero, Citavi
Inna Bulyha
Head of the Department
- studying the market for publications to implement the fund's collection of literature in accordance with the university's curriculum
- accepts and executes applications from the departments for the purchase of literature and periodicals
- provides scientific and technical possessing and systematization of new arrivals, provides services for identifying documents classification by UDC
- organizes the periodical's subscription, carries out the documents ordering from the library collections of Ukraine
- forms a complete collection of printed publications of scientists of the university
- forms a complete collection of university scientists’ printed editions, fills the electronic archive Electronic Sumy State University Institutional Repository (eSSUIR)
Olga Cherevko
Head of the Department
Contacts:
Address:
Sumy State University Library
116, Kharkivska str. Sumy, 40007