Information Resource Centre
The Information Resource Centre is the university library: a collection of more than 400,000 volumes, reading rooms, an electronic library and access to national and international databases.
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About the centre
The university's Information Resource Centre was established by Resolution PQ-381 of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan of 20 June 2006.
The centre works under its regulations, approved on 9 January 2023; each staff member's duties are set out in a job description. Under the university's new structure the centre has eight staff posts.
The centre also serves the academic lyceum attached to the university.
The collection
The centre's collection holds 400,879 volumes in 121,612 titles:
- textbooks and study materials — 203,299 volumes;
- scientific literature — 32,824 volumes;
- fiction — 52,220 volumes;
- foreign-language literature — 8,500 volumes;
- other literature — 104,036 volumes;
- audiobooks — 258.
A further 101,525 electronic titles are available on the unilibrary.uz platform, and the university's own Electronic Library platform holds 132,857 e-books.
Since September 2024 the centre has acquired 80 textbooks, 220 study guides, 42 dictionaries, 2 monographs and 1 practical guide from the Centre for Higher Education Development Research under the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation. In addition, 371 copies of 78 works of fiction were bought from the centre's budget.
Readers
The centre's readers include 348 teaching staff, 35 researchers, 5,341 bachelor's and master's students, as well as pupils of vocational colleges and academic lyceums, members of the public and staff — 5,889 registered users in all.
Between 400 and 550 teachers, students and staff visit the centre every day.
Electronic resources
All of the centre's computers are connected to the internet over Wi-Fi at 600 Mbit/s. Readers use the unilibrary.uz platform and the university's Electronic Library platform.
The centre is integrated into the electronic information system of the National Library of Uzbekistan: teachers and students who register on the National Library's platform can use its databases, among them:
- world information resources — jar.natlib.uz;
- dissertations — diss.natlib.uz;
- video and audio books — media.natlib.uz;
- digitised archive books — press.natlib.uz;
- international newspapers and magazines — pressreader.com.
Work continues on electronic reader services, access to foreign libraries' resources and scientific and technical databases, and on the centre's union electronic catalogue and electronic collection.
Facilities
- four reading rooms seating 120 readers at a time;
- a 28-seat computer room, five scanners and five printers;
- a computer workplace on the first floor for students with disabilities;
- after the renovation of the main academic building, 645 new bookshelves and 17 card-catalogue cabinets; every room is air-conditioned and covered by video surveillance.
Branches in the student residences:
- Residence 1 — 1,200 volumes and electronic (QR-code) boards;
- Residence 2 — 11,069 volumes and electronic (QR-code) boards;
- Residence 4 — 255 volumes of scientific literature and fiction for students' free time.
