| Abbreviation |
|---|
| TPÜ |
| English |
| Tallinn Pedagogical University Library |
| History, description, mission statement etc. |
| Tallinn Pedagogical university library is the national resource library in Estonia in educational sciences. It acquires, stores and makes accessible primary and secondary sources of information in the relevant subject areas as comprehensively as possible and provides sources for all specialities taught in the university on the level of Bachelor`s and other academic degree programs. The library stocks includes nearly half a million books and about 200 current serial titles. The library is open to the students and faculty of the university as well as to teachers all over Estonia. The library was founded in 1919 as the library of Teacher Training College. The library has taken part in all the reorganizations and name changes of this educational establishment. It has been a typical school library that provided students with textbooks. During 1952-1992 its host institution was called Tallinn Pedagogical Institute that had no academic degree programs. If graduates wished to acquire an academic, they had to do it in Moscow or Leningrad, although later on, in some fields, it was also possible in Tartu. The Institute became a university in 1992. Since 1993 the library has been supervised by a council made up of the prorector, representatives of all the faculties and three librarians (the chief librarian, the head of the acquisitions and the IT-coordinator). It has designed its own acquisition policy and participates in devising the acquisition strategy for all the academic libraries of Estonia, according to which our library is on the "A-level" in the field of educational sciences. |
| Postal address |
|---|
| Narva mnt. 25. Tallinn. 10120. Estonia |
| Visiting address |
| Narva mnt. 29. Tallinn |
| Telephone |
| +37 06409180 |
| Fax |
| +37 06409181 |
| General e-mail |
| library@tpu.ee |
| URL |
| http://www.tpu.ee/library/ |
| Director |
| Kersti Kikkas (Mrs.) kkikk@tpu.ee |
| Staff |
|---|
| 40 full-time equivalents (including cleaning persons) |
| Annual budget |
| In 2000: 4,500,000 EEK (250,000 $) |
| Monographs |
|---|
| 450,000 |
| Serial titles |
| 300 |
| Current serial titles |
| 200 |
| Microforms |
| Practically 0 |
| Electronic documents |
| 100 |
| Other electronic resources |
| Access to EBSCO on-line databases (more than 1200 journals, also full-text), temporary access to Wilson Web, Educational Research Abstracts, OVID-databases, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Academic Press database International Electronic Access Library etc. |
| Others |
| 700 maps, 7000 notes, 350 audio-visual items |
| The publications and theses of the professors, lecturers and researchers of the university, publications about the university |
| Estonian: 36% Russian: 27% English: 22% German: 10% Others: 5% |
| Name(s) of OPAC(s) |
|---|
| ESTER (Innopac-system) |
| Coverage of the collections by the OPAC(s) |
| 31% |
| Telnet-interface(s) |
| telnet://helios.nlib.ee |
| Web-interface(s) |
| http://helios.nlib.ee |
| Z39.50-interface(s) |
| Not yet |
| Other remarks on the catalogues |
| The Tallinn branch of the joint catalogue ESTER of the Estonian research libraries contains the following information (as a January 2000): - data on the items (books, periodicals, sheet music, maps, sound recordings) acquired by the Tallinn libraries of the ELNET consortium beginning with January 1, 1999. - data on the JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLICHED IN ESTONIA beginning with January 1, 1999 - data on the BOOKS PUBLISHED IN ESTONIA from 1991-1998 regardless of the language of publication. - data on the PERIODICALS PUBLISHED IN ESTONIA from 1994-1998 (regardless of the language). - data on the FOREIGN BOOKS issued after 1992 and gained by Estonian research libraries from 1993-1998 (data on books published in Cyrillic is missing) - information comes from the union catalogue of foreign books. - in addition to the above said the database contains the information on the FOREIGN BOOKS published before 1992 and obtained by the National Library from 1993-1998 (regardless of the language). |
| User groups |
|---|
| Students of Tallinn Pedagogical University (82%) Staff of Tallinn Pedagogical University (3%) Students of other educational institutions and other users (13%) |
| Use restrictions |
| 1. A library card can be obtained by any student or member of staff of the university. 2. Other users cannot borrow literature home. 3. Several collections (periodicals, reference books, theses etc.) cannot be checked out. |
| Price of loans |
| 1. Personal loans: Free 2. ILLs: Free |
| Price of copies |
| 1. Copies made by the library and sent to patrons: As invoiced 2. Copies made by patrons: 0,8 EEK (0,05 $) per page 3. ILLs: 10 pages = 1 IFLA voucher |
| Use of electronic documents and services |
| 1. Online services: Tallinn Pedagogical University library is a member of ELNET-consortium. We have access to about 3000 journals by different publishers. Electronic journals and databases are freely accessible from work stations in the university network. 2. CD-ROMs: The library has acquired CD-ROM databases in different disciplines. The most used one is PsycLit. Some CD-ROM-s are in the library`s network and can be freely accessed from any work station in the university network, some are only for local use. 3. Others: See the list of databases available at the library homepage http://www.tpu.ee/library/ |
| The library compiles ProCite databases "Education" (articles about education and pedagogy from the journals, newspapers and collections of articles) and "TPÜ" (publications of the personnel of the university and about the university: monographies, articles, electronic sources etc.). |
|
Date 23rd April 2001 Signature Kersti Kikkas |