Scientific Library of Tomsk State University, Open University at the same time in 1888, while maintaining the tradition of predecessors, actively uses modern methods in all activities, aims to maintain a high profile methodological center in the community of university libraries in Western Siberia.
   Professional library staff priority - to ensure the availability of scientific and educational resources to offer advanced information services required University research type.
   The mission sees the Research Library in support of education and research at the University through the creation of the necessary conditions for access to information and advanced services, training in the use of scientific and educational information resources and development potential, the relevant University research type.
Main goals
Create and offer advanced information products, services, and services to meet the educational and scientific needs of individual users. Improve information culture, develop information competence of students, graduate students, teachers.
Generate library and information resources, strengthening ties with the faculties and research departments of the University. To ensure the development of the library as a resource center for training and research activities of the university.
Maintain the existing library collections, including electronic documents, through a set of measures of preventive and restorative nature.
To conduct the research, methodical work (analytical, organizational, consulting) on the improvement of all activities. Create a creative and constructive relations with other libraries, to strengthen the leading position of the library - Regional Resource Centre.
To ensure the development of the library. To raise the professional level, developing the training of library specialists in accordance with modern requirements and professional standards.
Create a comfortable environment for the staff and readers: http://www.lib.tsu.ru/ru

In the formation of a vast number and a unique collection of books on the composition of the Scientific Library huge role played by Russian sponsors, researchers, writers and public figures. The basis of the fund went to book collections GA Stroganov, VA Zhukovsky, SM Golitsyn, AV Nikitenko, VA Manassein GK Tyumentseva, MV Surin and many others . The volume of the rare book collection - more than 115 thousand. Units. As part of the library's collection are the Slavic, Oriental and Western manuscripts XIV-XX centuries., Rare printed editions of Russian and Western XIV-XX centuries., Books with autographs of famous figures of science and culture of Russia, the original paintings. Library stores as a whole 21 private collection of books, as well as 25 archives (GN Potanin, PI Makushina, NI Naumov et al.). In the 20-50-ies of the library receives a free copy of the obligatory published in Russian printed products. Currently, the library collections comprise 3.8 million copies of documents of various kinds in different languages: it is books, magazines, newspapers, maps, posters, printed music, audio-visual materials and drives (CD-ROM).
The library provides access to information strategy. All branch reading rooms work on the basis of open access to information. The halls are different types of documents and organized workstations to users, librarians, counselors help in finding information. Saving documents by using video systems, automated control system output and inventory e-book collections.
Book collection of the library is regularly updated with the purchase of books, annual subscriptions to periodicals, exchanges with 34 domestic and 18 foreign libraries, thanks to the gifts of individuals and philanthropic foundations. Each year, sold about 40 thousand documents, including about 30 thousand books, 700 journal titles, 70 newspapers and other types of documents.
Additionally, the users are given access to a network of 50-60 local and remote databases, including the full text, which include up to 60 million patents, more than 2.5 million theses, 12 thousand. Magazines, 4 million legal documents and t.. All this variety of electronic documents greatly enhances the information support of scientific and educational activities of the university.

The formation of the library collection of branches of knowledge has been a group of leading experts of the library together with the teachers of the university.
Currently, most of the new additions to the library housed in the collections of the reading rooms and included in the electronic catalog of the library. Only in the absence of the required publications in the reading room of the book to be ordered from the main storage: http://www.lib.tsu.ru/ru

Subscription (Electronic Department of issuance) for the issuance of publications home users who are studying or working in the Tomsk State University and have a permanent library card, is a subdivision of the service department and is responsible for issuing publications from the fund subscription and stacks at home and work in the reading rooms .
The fund subscription centered textbooks and manuals on subjects studied at the university, manuals, dictionaries. These publications are issued on the house (for a semester, an academic year) users, who are studying or working in the Tomsk State University and have a permanent library card.
To get a subscription edition of the Fund, to be found in the electronic catalog publishing right, make sure that it has the status of "available", write the call number, author's name and the name, year of publication and ask the librarian subscription.
If a publication has been issued to another reader, you can book it.
In order to obtain the publication of the book depository, consult paragraph receiving handwritten requests (1st floor, Information Center 24/7) or make an electronic order.
Ordered and popular publications are stored on the subscription 5 days, then returned to the stacks.
Publications ordered from the stacks are issued for a period of 7 and 30 days for home users, who are studying or working in the Tomsk State University and have a permanent library card, and to work in reading rooms - all users, including those who not working and not studying at TSU. For delay in repayment of publications issued for the house will be charged, calculated for each day beyond the deadline. Prices paid services.
Publications ordered from the stacks for use in the reading rooms, you can not take out of the library. It should return them to the librarian subscription no later than 10-15 minutes before closing the library.
Basic services
Submission of documents at the request of users to work in the reading room
Issuance of documents for home
Providing access to the electronic catalog
Advice on finding information
Performing certificates
Holding of exhibitions of new arrivals
Conducting the tour
Allowing booking edition
Providing on-line access to personal e-card, and the possibility of self-extension of time use editions
Distribution of electronic information about the expiration of Use editions: http://www.lib.tsu.ru/ru

It offers readers 9 reading rooms and 2 subscription, located in two buildings that make up a single complex.
The old building was built for the library, designed by architect AD Kryachkova in 1914 in the neoclassical style. The new building designed by architect EI Dreizin in 1978.
The halls of the new building are decorated with wall paintings of the famous artist Vladimir Kulakov on the themes of history, science and the arts. The transition from the old to the new building is decorated with stained glass windows by artist N. navreno.
On the 1st floor of the new building are
      Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
      Information Center 24/7
On the 2nd floor of a new building located
      Season ticket
      Reading Room of the literature on the natural, physical, mathematical and technical sciences. Magazines
      Bibliographic Information Center
On the 3rd floor of a new building located
      Reading room of literature on the economic and legal sciences
      German Reading Room
      Reading room English and American Literature
On the 4th floor of a new building located
      Chitalny room literature on the historical and philological sciences.
Fiction
      Reading Room of the literature on social and philosophical sciences
      Hall of audiovisual documents
On the 1st floor of the old library building located
      Regional Centre for Conservation of Documents
      Book Museum
      Small conference hall
On the 2nd floor of an old building
      Professors reading room (for teaching staff, as well as for readers with material from the department of rare books and manuscripts)
      European Union Information Centre
      Big conference hall
Each reading room has its own auxiliary fund, reference books.
Stalls selling books and related products are on the ground floor of a new building

The cafe is located in the basement of the new building

Toilets are located on the 1st floor of the old and new buildings of the 2nd floor
In the premises of the library no smoking.
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