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About the Library
Mission: to meet the requirements of the University community for the information needed in research and studies, accept the challenges of a changing academic environment and communication technologies progress.
Vision: to become an attractive center of information and cultural life.
Tasks:
- the primary goal of the library is to supply readers with information regarding the progress of research, education and learning at the university;
- to make the local and external information resources accessible to the VILNIUS TECH community;
- to become an active participant in the study process, in individual and group work, seminars, lectures, and self-education.
We are committed to growing together with our community.
Library Director I. Kasperaitienė has been elected Chair of the Lithuanian Research Libraries Association (LMBA).
Ingrida Kasperaitienė has assumed the position of Director of the Library.
The Library became a member of the Consortium for the Support and Development of the Lithuanian Academic Libraries’ Information Infrastructure for Research and Studies (LABIIMSPP Consortium).
Within the framework of the project “eMoDB.LT: Opening of Electronic Scientific Databases to Lithuania,” the Library initiated subscriptions to electronic publications.
An innovative electronic services platform — “Information e-Bridge: Library–University–Student (BUS)” — was implemented.
The first 24-hour reading room in Lithuania was opened.
The first art gallery in the Saulėtekis district — Gallery A — was opened.
The collection of the University’s final theses was launched in the Lithuanian Electronic Theses and Dissertations Information System (ETD IS), which stores Master’s theses, doctoral dissertations, and their abstracts.
Reading rooms for Electronics (Naugarduko g. 41), Architecture (Trakų g. 1/26), and Construction and Business Management (Saulėtekio al. 11) were established.
The Ex Libris integrated information resource management system ALEPH 500 (an electronic catalogue for searching and ordering publications) was implemented.
The Library was relocated to renovated premises at Saulėtekio al. 14 (architect: Prof. N. Bučiūtė).
The Library became a member of the “Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network”.
Algirdas Antanas Baliulis assumed the position of Director of the Library.
The Library was established (Basanavičiaus g. 28).