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- Title
A Közép-európai Egyetem (KEE) Könyvtára, azaz a Central Euröpean University (CEU) Library.
- Authors
Mária, Szlatky
- Abstract
The CEU Library (Budapest, Hungary) established in 1992 by Gyorgy Soros, is a modem, well equipped, medium-size English-language university library with an international clientele. The Library's main responsibility is to serve the CEU community, to support the educational programmes of the CEU, and to facilitate teaching, learning and research processes and activities among CEU students, faculty, researchers and staff. The CEU Library also provides services to the external academic public. The Library is a so-caVed hybrid library contains the largest English-language holdings in the field of social sciences and humanities in Central and Eastern Europe. It currently holds over 270,000 documents in various formats. Its electronic resources, databases, ejournals and e-book collections are exceptionally rich. The traditional documents are arranged in an openaccess system in the reading rooms that makes possible free browsing for users, while electronic resources are accessible campus-wide. The CEU Library aims to become a leading research and information centre in the Central and Eastern European Region, expanding its role as a flagship of modern information technology in the field of the humanities and social sciences. The article tells the history of the CEU Library which is going to celebrate its 20th anniversary next year.
- Subjects
BUDAPEST (Hungary); HUNGARY; EUROPE; CENTRAL European University; SOROS, George, 1930-; ACADEMIC libraries; EDUCATIONAL programs; ELECTRONIC information resources
- Publication
Tudomanyos es Muszaki Tajekoztatas, 2011, Vol 58, Issue 11/12, p464
- ISSN
0041-3917
- Publication type
Article