Purchasing the Library publications
The criterion for purchasing the Institute's Library publications are the publication usage value and availability of the institute's financial means. The Library Head sets up the purchase policy, examines publishers' catalogues, prospects and novelties and proposes a list of the needed publications which can be purchased upon the Institute's Director approval. The latter applies for any publication proposed to be purchased by the Institute's employers.
As a rule, there is only one copy of a publication purchased which is not the case with dictionaries and handbooks since they are usually constantly needed by individuals for a particular work. Foreign reviews are ordered once a year.
Publication processing and storage
The Institute's material is computer processed with the INFOLIT program according to the librarian standards. The Library publications are stored in compliance with the statistics about borrowing and actuality or obsoleteness on one side and the Institute's storage capacity on the other.
Borrowing publications from the Institute's own fund
The Institute's Library publications are available to all the Institute's employees and scholarship recipients provided they abide by borrowing rules, do not loose or damage the borrowed material and when their employment or scholarship status at the Institute is terminated they return them to the Library.
The Library publications are lent for the use at the Institute's Reading-Room and working place or home. The order for publication borrowing can be given to the Library in writing, by phone or e-mail.
The borrowing term is determined either with regard to the topicality of a particular publication or in general the following applies:
- books up to thirty days,
- serial publications up to seven days,
- standards, rules and regulations, CD-ROMs one day.
Publications borrowed for the use at the working place are being accounted for as permanently borrowed. Such publications shall not be borrowed by others unless approved by the Library.
Interlibrary borrowing from domestic and foreign libraries
Books, papers and reviews not available at the Institute's Library are borrowed within the interlibrary borrowing scheme either from a Slovenian or foreign library in compliance with rules and regulations of the library lending a particular publication. For instance, a book from a Slovenian library can be made available within three days and from abroad approximately within three weeks.
Availability of copies of a particular Institute's Library documentation
The Library personnel makes copies of certain articles from various reviews and standards or official journals for the Institute's personnel which they can copy by themselves, too, provided they abide by the Law on author's and other rights.
Information enquiries
- retrospective enquiries provide for an insight into the literature dealing with a particular topic and a written list of the related documentation. The Documentation Service makes a retrospective enquiry for a particular documentation request either from its own or some other's database.
- selective information dissemination is a form of informing the user by providing him/her, on a regular basis, with a list of most recent professional information about an in advance given question or interest profile.
Personal bibliographies of the Institute's Researchers
Upon request, the Information Services draws a personal bibliography from the NFOLIT computer basis or COBISS
(www.cobiss.izum.si) and SICRIS (sicris.izum.si), bases which are available on the internet, too.
Annual Institute's bibliographies
The Library prepares annual bibliographies of its Researchers which are a constituent part of the Institute Business Report for each individual year.
Information from the IUS-INFO database
IUS-INFO is one of the most wide bases of laws, acts, rules and regulations covering the entire national legislation. The Library provides its users with any information from this basis either as a written list or in a digital form or sends it to the applicant's electronic address.
Information from the GVIN data base
The GVIN basis is a wide basis established by the Gospodarski vestnik (Economic Review). It covers business information, financial market, Stock-Exchange and searching articles from the business and financial world. It is from this basis, too, that the Institute's Library draws and supplies information to its users.
S-Information from the Official Journal database
The Institute's Library procures for its users any law, act and rule or regulation either as a fully written text or in the electronic form.
General information
The Institute's Library can be addressed with a request for any topical daily information, fast help regarding spelling rules and similar.
User indoctrination
The Institute's Library personnel helps their users who may have some difficulties with a certain database so that they can search for and find information independently by themselves. |
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