RACŁAWICKA 15-17
75-620 KOSZALIN

TEL. (00-48-94) 34-78-452, 34-78-454
e-mail: bibinfo@lew.tu.koszalin.pl

DIRECTOR
Ms RENATA KISIEL, MA

The Main Library at the Koszalin University of Technology (KUT) provides didactic and scientific support for both the faculty and students of the University and acts as a scientific and technical library for the city and region.

The Library’s focus is directed towards the areas of specialisation of the KUT, such as: civil engineering, environmental engineering, machine building technology, diagnostics and automobile exploitation, electronics and telecommunications, sanitary engineering, materials science and engineering, mechanics, technical education, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and in recent years also economics, business management and marketing, agriculture and forest technology, and languages, mostly English.

Every year the Library collection is increased by about 4,500 volumes as a result of purchases, exchanges and gifts. The Library resources amount to over 177,000 items divided, approximately, as follows:

• 109,800 volumes of books,
• 13,700 volumes of periodicals,
• 54,400 items of special publications.

The Library subscribes to 490 periodicals; of these 85 titles are foreign technical journals.
It also obtains about 90 Scientific Papers edited by the technical universities of this country.
Readers interested in the collections of the Library may take advantage of them at:

• the Main Library at the KUT site, Racławicka Street 15-17,
• the Branch Library situated at the Students’ Campus, Hostel No. 2 at Rejtana Street 13,
• the Library of the English Teacher Training College situated at Kwiatkowskiego Street 6,
• the Library of the Department of Economics and Management situated at Kwiatkowskiego Street 6, building B.

Public catalogues are the basic source of information of Library resources. Besides card catalogues, particular data bases inform users of the collections of the Main Library, which are: BOOKS, PERIODICALS, PhD THESES, STAFF MEMBERS’ PUBLICATIONS, which can be reached through the KUT’s network. Data bases, as well as the use of a system of bar codes in the circulating room/library, speed up the process of search and the checking out of books and articles. Moreover, the Library offers data bases on diskettes and CD ROM, including:

• data bases prepared by the National Library: Bibliographic Guide, Bibliography of Periodicals’ Contents, Bibliography of New, Continued, Suspended, and Revised Title Publications,

• information services: Professional Tax Service, Construction and Housing Law, Environment Protection Law, HR Service, Economic Activity, Polish Law,

• periodicals bases: Current Contents – Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences, Current Contents – Engineering, Computing & Technology,

• bibliographic base ICONDA.

All staff members and students of the KUT can take advantage of the Library’s resources. Each student of the 1st year requires an ID Library card, which is issued after a short library training course.

Students of other universities as well as inhabitants of the city and region can take advantage of the Library’s collections in the reading room on site, and books may be borrowed after payment of a deposit.