Profile of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Brief history
Let us take a glimpse at the past....
Situated at the heart of Western Europe, K.U.Leuven has been a centre of learning for almost six centuries. Founded in 1425 K.U.Leuven bears the honour of being the oldest Catholic university in the world still in existence and the oldest university in the Low Countries.
K.U.Leuven currently hosts around 29,000 students, it has 4,663 academic staff members, 2,492 administrative and technical staff, and 7,030 teaching hospital staff.
On the academic side, the university is composed of 14 faculties, 50 departments and about 240 sub-departments. Furthermore, its network of 30 auxiliary libraries now houses a total of 3,000,000 volumes.
The University Library is a collective name for a broad spectrum of
libraries: large and small, general and specialised, serving the various human, exact, applied and biomedical sciences. Most faculties have one large faculty library. They primarily contain the most frequently used specialised literature, whereas general and interdisciplinary works, older publications and the historical patrimony belong to the domain of the Central Library. There are 12 libraries spread over Leuven and Kortrijk, which offer access to books, periodicals, databases and the Internet to students, faculty staff, alumni and many others seeking specialised information or intellectual enrichment.
Collections
Our library's collection is located in the faculty of economics and applied economics and comprises about 60,000 volumes, 600 current periodical and statistics (FAO, ILO, UNCTAD and the World Bank).
Our library maintains a large digital collection as well as books and periodicals in all domains of economy. We also have a collection of annual reports from primarily Belgian companies. Furthermore, many databases are available on-line or on CD-Rom.
The *library of economics and applied economics* provides 250 study places to students, including 40 desktops and 2 PC-rooms.
In February 2005 we started with a new library system, i.e. *Aleph*. Such catalogue queries provide data not only on the publications in the local library, but also on material contained in other K.U.Leuven libraries and even in other Belgian libraries.
You can find information about individual journal articles (by subject index or by author) through the many bibliographical *databases*, to which one has access from every PC connected to the university network.
The special access software */LibriVision/* allows you to make among these databases a selection adapted to your own field of study. In order to obtain a copy of the articles, it is sometimes possible to "click through" to the full text version, if this is available online.
The following databases / online newspapers / periodicals can be accessed in our library :
- Bel-First*: Annual financial statements of 290,000 Belgian companies and 200 important companies in Luxembourg.
- Amadeus*: Amadeus is a European financial database with information about 200,000 companies in 34 countries.
- Datastream*: The historical-financial database. Datastream contains worldwide financial and economic data.
- Mediargus, Financial times, the Economist, Business week, Harvard business review*
Contact Persons
For questions regarding Nereus and K.U.Leuven's involvement, please contact:
The Library Website can be found under
http://bib.kuleuven.be/etew/index.htm>
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