Categorie: Annual report

Like 2021, the year 2022 was again a rather uneventful year for the ITM library. The good news is that once more with a 1.6 FTE staff we were able to keep regular library opening hours without a single unforeseen closing day. Two job student helped us to keep institutional publication record up-to-date within the Pure […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

2015 did not feature major changes in the library’s organization, services or collections. Yet by the end of the year we were able to licence Nature Complete: i.e. the full content – including archives – of 80 Nature Publishing Group (NPG) journals, including Nature (from 1869 onwards), 20 Nature research journals, 16 Nature review journals and 40 additional NPG journals. We also acquired BioOne Complete – a […]

2014 saw the loss of a number of valuable library resources. Especially the loss of the Cebam Digital Library of Health substantially diminished our collection of online available journals. We also had to take leave of the CABI‘s Global Health database, a fine but increasingly expensive complement to PubMed and ISI Web of Knowledge. The unforeseen bankruptcy of two of our major books […]

2013 started with a digital survey of our internal user community (ITM staff) consisting of 40 questions about knowledge, usage and appreciation of library services and resources. 84 colleagues responded and gave the library an overall rating of 87%.   Another survey consists of journal and database subscriptions. The 3 scientific departments listed their preferred current subscriptions, wished […]