Miejsce i rola bibliotek zakładowych w systemie naukowo-dydaktycznym i informacyjnym szkoły wyższej na przykładzie sieci bibliotecznej Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego. Zarys problematyki

Abstract

This paper examines the issue of creating the library network at the University of Łódź, and indicates department libraries’ place and role in the academic environment. The seventy-year history of the University of Łódź shows that creating academic library is a difficult task, despite the actual needs of the environment in this respect. The created library network of the University of Łódź, which consists of The Library of University of Łódź and Department Libraries, takes part in fulfilling basic responsibilities of the higher education. Academic library has to fulfil the key tasks in the academic environment, it means that providing fast access to the information, which is essential to the execution of scientific-didactic processes of the University, and simultaneously is necessary to organize the most perfect workroom for scientific-didactic tasks conducted by academic teachers. It is facilitated by the fact that there exist perfect narrowly specialized book collections in Department Libraries. Moreover, the collected faculty didactic literature increases the importance of special libraries for realisation of syllabuses by particular faculties of the University.