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Organizational Structure

Director

Małgorzata Dąbrowicz, PhD

tel.: +48 61 829 3820

malgorzata.dabrowicz@amu.edu.pl

Deputy Librarian

Małgorzata Rychlik, MA

tel.: +48 61 829 3801

Malgorzata Rychlik portret

Deputy Librarian

Agnieszka Rybarczyk, MA

tel.: +48 61 829 3802

Kobieta oparta swobodnie balustradę kamienną klatki. W tle baner wystawy.

 

Deputy Librarian

Maciej Bochyński, MA

tel.: +48 61 829 3819

Maciej Bochyński portret

 

Office of Director
Anna Cebulska, MA
tel. +48 61 829 3820
fax.: +48 61 829, 3824
Mon. - Fri.
9.00 am. - 3.30 pm.
Office of University Library in Poznań
(HR issues)
tel.: +48 61 829 - 3840
Mon. - Fri.
7.00 a.m. - 3.00 p.m.
Library Information
+ 48 519 340 572
+48 61 829 3872 
e-mail: library@amu.edu.pl
9.00 a.m. -  8.00 p.m.
Staff Directory

Acquisition, Collection Development and Library Preparation Department

Katarzyna Regulska, MA
Library Research Fellow
Tel. +48 61 829 3822

Head of Acquisition, Collection Development and Library Preparation Department

Acquisition Policy

Legal Deposit

Recommend a book for acquisition

Guidelines for receiving and processing donated materials

Offer of duplicate materials

Staff Directory

Tasks of the Acquisition Department:

– Selection and registration of publications received as part of the legal deposit system in the library system.

– Selection and registration of Polish periodicals received as part of the legal deposit system in the library system.

– Selection and registration of Polish and foreign periodicals received through subscriptions and as part of the legal deposit system in the library system.

– Making inventories of deposit copy publications and monitoring of the efficient delivery of publications from publishers in line with the Deposit Copy Act of 7.11.1996 r. (In: Journal of Laws of the Republic of Poland,  1996, No. 152, item 722) and the “Regulation of the Minister of  Culture and Arts of 6 March 1997  on the list of libraries entitled to acquire books deposited by legal requirement in specified libraries, types of publications and the rules and standards governing relevant operations   (Journal of Laws of the Republic of Poland, 1997, No. 29, item 161) and the following amendments in the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and Arts  of 24 May 1999  on the new list of deposit copy libraries and the rules and standards governing relevant operations (Journal of Laws, 1999 No 50., item 513),

– Acquisition and inventory of regional publications.

– Registration of books to be incorporated into the library system (donations, legal deposit).

– Offers of duplicate materials from other libraries.

 

– Donations acceptance, selection and inventory of gifts and donations for the Library.

 

– Acquisition of Polish and international books.

– Purchase of books requested via Recommend a Book Service.

– Acquisition of rare and antiquarian materials.

– Acquisition of graphic novels and comics.
– Purchase offers (including antiquarian acquisitions).
– Registration of publications in the library system.

 

– Purchase of books published by the AMU University Publishing House – Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM.

– Exchange within the scope of activities conducted by the Library.

– Registration of publications in the library system (exchange, purchase).

– Domestic and international subscriptions for the University.

– Tenders for the supply of journals to the University Library and faculty libraries of Adam Mickiewicz University.

– Managing financial settlements related to journal subscriptions, databases, and consortia.

– Maintaining and processing complete invoice documentation for journals, databases, electronic resources, and consortia— domestic and international—for the University Library and other organizational units of Adam Mickiewicz University.

– Administration of e-journals and registration of purchased Polish titles of journals

– Purchases and administration of e-books,

– Managing and maintaining the electronic database “Duplicate Copies Offer” for academic libraries and other institutional recipients.

– Selecting and appropriately distributing materials received from various units of the University Library in Poznań.

– Transferring duplicate and surplus printed materials to AMU faculty libraries, university libraries in Poznań, and other ULP partners.

– Assisting recipients on-site and preparing materials for sending.

– Managing auction and periodical shelves.

– Administering the electronic journal database.

– Formal and subject cataloguing of documents from current acquisitions and from storage collections, including special collections of the University Library in Poznań (ULP).

– Creating bibliographic records in MARC21 format for monographs, serials, music prints, old prints, manuscripts, ephemera, cartographic and iconographic documents, as well as sound and electronic documents.

– Ongoing quality control of created bibliographic records.

– Cooperation with the National Library of Poland.

– Conducting training and consultations in MARC21 cataloguing.

– Updating the computer database (authority records and bibliographic records).

– Ensuring data consistency and accuracy in the database through regular maintenance and resolving discrepancy reports.

– Participating in the ongoing and retrospective selection of documents added to the ULP collections.

-Conducting inventory of incoming library materials.

-Assigning call numbers.

-Creating item records for bibliographic records of monographs and special collections.

-Preparing inventory books in both electronic and printed formats.

-Managing the financial accounting of library materials.

-Processing and accounting for the value of lost and withdrawn books.

-Cleaning the database of records for withdrawn publications.

-Performing maintenance and improvement of the monograph collection.

Storage and Collection Control Department

Head:
mgr Elżbieta Bręcz,
Senior Curator
Tel. +48 61 829 3815

Staff 

Collection Control Section

tel. +48 61 829 3816, -3859

Tasks:

  • monitoring the condition of Univeristy Library’s Collection based on information obtained from University Library staff, based on information obtained from users, through the traditional and electronic catalog, and physical inspection of the collection.
  • Merging sequences of multi-volume and serial works.
  • Selecting incomplete, outdated, duplicate, or non-profile-compliant works.
  • Conducting retrospective selection of periodicals.
  • Compiling lists of selected periodical titles.

-Identifying titles for completion (i.e., missing volumes),

-Designating materials for transfer to specific departments or other libraries via the Surplus Materials Management Section,

-Transferring books for retroconversion after collection improvement,

-Performing tasks related to so-called minor collection improvement (e.g., correcting errors in call numbers, card classification, incorrect location, etc.),

-Processing recovered books (so-called regressions),

-Checking bookmarks for lost books and removing their cards from the traditional card catalog and their scans from the digitized alphabetical catalog,

-Removing cards and scans of deselected items,

-Content-related work on the collection designated for binding,

-Ensuring the accuracy and clarity of the traditional alphabetical catalog and its digitized version,

-Participating in current and retrospective selection of documents added to the University Library’s collection,

-Submitting comments regarding missing items, gaps, damage, and duplicates in the collection,

-Ongoing monitoring of the University Library’s holdings,

-Comparing inventory books with the actual state of the collection,

-Creating bookmarks for lost books,

-Verifying regressions (recovered books),

-Entering deselected materials into the withdrawal database,

-Cooperating with the Acquisition Section regarding the purchase of books requested by users.

Elżbieta Bręcz MA, Section’s Head, tel. +48 61 829 3815

Storage Access Services Section

tel. +48 61 829 3858

Tasks assigned to the section:

  • the staff members carry out repairs and restoration of damaged library materials
  • preservation of resources and protection against harmful effects of physical, chemical, biological and mechanical hazards
  • binding of books and volumes of journals
  • providing book accessories for the Library (boxes, folders, etc.)

Circulation Department

Head:
mgr Krystyna Gozdowska, kustosz
tel. +48 61 829 3847

Staff

Tasks:

The Department renders services for library users making library materials available either in Library’s reading rooms or as loans

  • services for the libraries in the AMU network – deposits from library resources
  •  managing interlibrary loans
  • managing and maintaining Student Library and reference libraries in reading rooms

Information and Enquiry Desk

(located in the entrance lobby)

tel. +48 61 829 38 72, +48 61 8293817, 519 340 572

email: zapytajbibliotekarza@amu.edu.pl

Tasks:

  • provides library users with direction to library materials, advice on library collections and services,
  • issues registration cards that allow users to have access to available materials in reading rooms,
  • as printing is available from all workstations in the library, monochrome photocopies from the all terminals and workstations located at the Library and the Library’s facilities can be picked up at the Enquiry Desk.

Reading Rooms Section:

THE HUMANITIES READING ROOM (BC I)
tel. +48 61 829 3854
e-mail: czyt@amu.edu.pl

READING ROOM FOR RESEARCHERS (CPN)
tel. +48 61 829 3854
e-mail: czyt@amu.edu.pl

SOCIAL SCIENCES READING ROOM (BC III)
tel. +48 61 829 3853
e-mail: czyt@amu.edu.pl

Reference libraries in the reading rooms have over 18,000 vols. and about 1,800 titles of current journals and periodicals. The reading rooms can accommodate up to 170 people. All book collections are registered in the database available for users on site and in the network via the online catalogue.

Lending Section

tel. +48 61 829 3851
e-mail: wypoz.bu@amu.edu.pl

All books from the Student Library are recorded in the main online database available on site and via the online catalogue. Lending Department has over 82,800 volumes. of textbooks, course books and source texts. The Library is providing a wide range of services beyond its reading rooms, such as remote services. Library users can send online orders for books.

Interlibrary Loans Section

tel. +48 61 829 3852
e-mail: wmb@amu.edu.pl

Libraries offer an interlibrary loan and document delivery service to obtain materials needed for research and private study from libraries across Poland and abroad. Applicants need to have unexpired library card and no outstanding loans or fines on overdue items borrowed from the libraries of the system.

Research Information and Knowledge Transfer Department

Head of the Department
Sandra Szczepanowska MA, Curator
tel. +4861 829 3801

Staff

Organizational tasks (Types of matters handled)

  • Organization of conferences, seminars, workshops, research meetings, festivals, reviews, book launches and ad hoc and commemoration events,
  • Developing and providing institutional repository services (AMUR repository),
  • Providing services on the Ask a Librarian platform services on a regular basis,
  • Providing services related to the provision of information resources at the Library (databases, e-journals, e-books and the institutional repository)
  • Development of the Reference Collection of books on librarianship and the history of the book,
  • Online bookshop (eBUks) and books and other library-related material published by the Library,
  • Regular updating of the web page of the Library, information electronic board and the Library’s Facebook profile,
  • Organization of training sessions and improvement courses as well as in-house training for University staff,
  • Organization of professional placements, traineeships and voluntary work,
  • Collaboration in exhibition preparations at the Library.

Research activity

  • Editorial work on the Library’s annual publication Biblioteka and other publications,
  • Creation of library’s own databases,
  • Research projects and other related programmes.

Editorial and publishing works

  • Planning and coordination of editorial activity at Poznań University Library,
  • Editorial and technical works,
  • Communication with publishers, printing offices, bookshops and receivers of publications promoting the Library’s resources

Marketing activity

  • Preparation of brochures, prospectuses, handouts and other marketing materials,
  • Collaboration and cooperation with mass media,
  • Organization of book launches and targeted book promotion.

Cooperation with libraries outside Poland

  • Cooperation with foreign libraries
  • Coordination of foreign placements of the library staff (traineeships, scholarships, staff exchange, conferences, placements within the framework of the Erasmus programme.
  • Visits of foreign guests to the Library.

Fund raising

  • Subsidies, grants and other financial support
  • Preparation of applications for evaluation

Information services

Special Collections Department

Head
Rafał Wójcik,  dr hab., PhD with habilitation
Senior Certified Librarian
tel. +48 61 829-3829

Go to the website of  Special Colletions Deparment

Collection Preservation Department

Head
Jolanta Noskowiak, MA
Curator
tel. +48 61 829 3844

Staff 

Digitization Section

tel. 61 829 3844,- 3810, -3825
e-mail: digitalizacjabup@amu.edu.pl

Tasks:

    • microfilm duplication, diazo process,
    • scan extracts from microfilm,
    • scans from original (A4-A1 formats) – in black and white, in colour, in greys
    • CD/DVD recording
    • printout graphic in black and white, in colour (A4, A3 formats),
    • printout from microfilm (A4, A3 formats),
    • printout from original material (A4, A3 formats),
    • OCRed copies, saved in the TIFF and PDF and/or Word format,
    • providing graphical support and graphic visual representations for cultural events organised at the Library (leaflets, hand-bills, invitations, posters, etc.),
    • preparation of bibliographical records in Dublin Core Meta Data format for digital publications,
    • management of the d’Libra digital library software package,
    • creation of subject and thematic collections on the Wielkopolska Digital Library platform.

Jolanta Noskowiak, MA
Curator
Head of the unit
tel. +48 61 829 3844

Conservation
tel. 61 829 3855
email: konserwacjabup@amu.edu.pl

Bindery
tel. 61 829 3856
email: introligatorniabup@amu.edu.pl

Tasks:

  •  restoration and repair of damaged or deteriorated library materials
  • actions aimed at protecting collections from harmful physical, chemical, biological, and mechanical factors
  • binding of books and periodicals
  • production of bookbinding accessories (boxes, folders for collections, etc.)
  • disinfection of books and archival materials in a vacuum chamber

IT Department

Head:
Agata Hintz, MSc Eng.
Senior IT Specialist
tel.: 61 829 3830

Staff 

The IT department is responsible for the efficient, proper and accurate operation of the HORIZON library and information system,

Tasks to be fulfilled by the department:

  • troubleshooting and deploying of client software to ensure the effective operation of individual modules at the University Library and faculty libraries,
  • collection of statistical data,
  • participation in works on the development of standards in the operation of academic and research libraries in Poland,
  • co-ordination, purchase and deployment of computer hardware and software at the Library,
  • securing efficient and proper management of workstations for the staff and users of the Library,
  • co-operation with the AMU Infrastructure and IT Projects Management Centre in securing effective and efficient operation of the computer network and library servers,
  •  deploying technological advances that could benefit the organisation and support the regular operation of the Library.

 

Library Administrative Office

tel. +48 61 829 3840
fax. +48 61 829 3824

Head: Jacek Halicki, MSc Eng
tel. 61 829 – 3861

Staff

This office deals with the management and administration of the library system as a whole, including planning, finance, personnel, supplies, renovation and repairs, etc. The office also administers the Librarian’s Office and porterage duties.

Working hours:

Mon. – Fri.7.00 a.m.-3.00 pm.

Librarian’s Office 
tel.: +48 61 829 – 3820

Working hours:

Mon. – Fri.9.00 am.- 3.00 pm.

Office of the Director
tel.: +48 61 829 – 3840

Working hours:

Mon. – Fri.7.00 am.- 3.00 pm.

Porterage duties
tel.: +48 61 829 3860
email: portbu@amu.edu.pl

Cloakroom
tel.: +48 61 829 3864

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