After 2020’s physical reorganization, this year the library received a new place in ITM’s organogram. The library moved from the former support services group to the central policy group where it is now integrated within the Research Office. As for daily practice, 2021 proved not to be a very dynamic year, with fewer physical visitors than before […]
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ITM Library Newsletter September 2021
The ITM Library – now hierarchically embedded within the Research Office and physically transformed into a one-floor enterprise (check out the new pictures on this website!) – continues to offer you access to the same biomedical literature resources as before, but with ever increasing numbers of e-journals and e-books, most of which fully integrated into one platform: Ebsco Discovery Service (EDS) which […]
ITM Library – Annual Report 2020
During 2020 the ITM library saw its largest physical reorganization in over 3 decades. The floor space was reduced by 40%, evacuating the former journals reading room on the third floor housing some 1000 m of bound periodicals. 500 m was moved to the central reading room on the fourth floor, 250 m could be stored in […]
ITM Library – Annual Report 2019
2019 was another difficult year for the ITM library. Staff consisted at most of 2 persons, both part-timers. Nevertheless we managed to maintain basic library services – like timely document delivery (well, most of the time) – and avoid unforeseen closing days or hours (with a few unfortunate exceptions), which would not have been possible without substantial help of […]
ITM Library Newsletter January 2020
The ITM library has recently had a major physical makeover: the remaining current printed journals were moved to the photocopy room and have made spacious room for ITM’s new computer room housing 16 PC’s for the use of students and visitors and occasionally group tutorials. Later this year the library floor space will shrink substantially: most of the […]
ITM Library Newsletter February 2019
In 2019 the ITM library continues to offer you more of the same, i.e. access to the biomedical literature resources available last year, but with ever increasing numbers of e-journals and e-books, most of which fully integrated into one platform: Ebsco Discovery Service (EDS) • EDS includes a number of major databases and collections like Medline Complete, (a large part […]
ITM Library – Annual Report 2018
2018 was a difficult year for the ITM library. 3 library staff left us, 2 remain. Nevertheless we managed to maintain basic library services – like timely document delivery – and avoid unforeseen closing days or hours, which would not have been possible without substantial help of temporary staff and a job student. Other activities – such as validation of Pure records […]
ITM Library – Annual Report 2017
425 Total Number of Individual e-Books in Catalog * ca. 3000 Total Number of e-Books in Packages ** ca. 10000 Total Number of CD-ROMs 359 Total Number of Videos 382 Total Number of ITM Dissertations 3215 – Total Number of Digital Master Theses 2406 Total Number of PhD Theses in Collection 1126 – Total Number […]
ITM Library Newsletter November 2017
The ITM library is once again proud to present to you a whole range of new digital biomedical content: New E-journal content: Medline Complete: full-text of over 2,300 journals indexed in Medline / Pubmed (with 1 to 6 months embargo) fully integrated in our EDS discovery service at https://lib.itg.be/literature/bibliographic-databases.php Please note that EDS now also features an additional interface dedicated to mobile devices (smartphones, etc.) and fully […]
ITM Library – Annual Report 2016
Mid-2016 the library changed position in ITM’s organogram. After 10 years of being part of the director’s services we moved on to the support services headed by general manager Jean-Christophe Donck. Assistant librarian Kris Didden now focuses almost exclusively on organizing the institutional archives. Bibliographic validation of the PURE publications module is now managed by library assistant Noor Goemaere. Reception, document delivery and bibliographic databases maintenance remain in […]