A new academic year, a new librarian, a new newsletter On July 1st, 2023, after 37 years (24 of which as head of the library), Dirk Schoonbaert retired as ITM librarian. The library landscape has changed dramatically over the past 40 years with the advent of new technologies, changing user expectations, increasing importance of digital […]
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 […]
ITM Library – Annual Report 2021
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 […]
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 […]