Employees of the Science Library of YKSUG obtained experience of information service at libraries of Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland.

Employees of the Science Library of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno have finished a two-weeks training at Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland. It has been organized in the context of international technical assistance “Library Network Support Services: modernising libraries in Armenia, Moldova and Belarus through library staff development and reforming libraries” by Erasmus+ programme.

During the training employees of the Science Library of YKSUG considered a number of issues, such as introduction into the marketing for librarians, management fundamentals for library staff, information competence and searching skills, innovation online services for the 21st century librarians, availability of the libraries and public services for the disabled students, development strategy of the library fund and English for particular purposes.

“We had run a SWOT-analysis of the Science Library of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno and presented the results of it. Together with our colleagues from libraries of higher education institutions of the Republic of Belarus, also participating in this project, we had presented marketing strategy for organizing National Day of Library Literacy in the Republic of Belarus”, told the employees of Science Library of our alma mater.

During the visit to Limerick, the representatives of the YKSUG met the experience of information service at libraries of the Limerick Institute of Technology and Limerick University. It’s worth mentioning, that libraries of the higher education institutions in Limerick use RFID systems for automatizing book issuing/return, RFID reader cards, RFID gates.

The training resulted in distributing modules for the further development of study programs. Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno was given a task to develop e-libraries.