ITM Library – Annual Report 2022

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 platform during summer and a number of days spread over the year.

Our (mostly prepaid) biomedical literature resources were kept more or less at the same level, with thousands of E-books and E-journals and dozens of bibliographic databases, all integrated seamlessly in our ever improving EDS Discovery Service.

The library website https://lib.itg.be was completely renewed, with a focus on the ever increasing e-resources rather than the  recently reduced physical library. The new technology used also offers far superior search options for the large amount of website content.

Dirk Schoonbaert

2022 in Numbers

* Individual e-books in the library catalog, excl. open access e-books from e.g. WHO or NCBI
** E.g. Ebsco Clinical Collection and several free internet platforms