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Tilburg University, founded in 1927, is a fully accredited government financed university with almost 10,000 students, with a library of 60 FTE staff. Tilburg University specializes in the social sciences and humanities.
The university has five faculties: Economics and Business Administration, Law, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Philosophy, and Arts.
An independent Faculty of Theology is affiliated with the university. Within these faculties, 22 degree programmes are offered, some of which have an interdisciplinary character.
Tilburg University has a highly sophisticated library system and provides 950 study places to students, including over 500 student desktops. Every one of the 10,000 students and 1.600 staff members has an e-mail address and access to the Internet.
The library has implemented a completely new electronic learning centre.
Special units of the library are the European Documentation Centre and the Brabant Film and Photography Archive.
Special databases produced and maintained by the library are: Brabant Historical Databases, Excerpta Informatica Database, Research Papers in Economics (in economics).
Collections
The library’s collection is located in a central building and comprises 800,000 volumes, including books, loose-leaf series, images, old prints and manuscripts, and 2,200 current periodicals. The collection covers the following subjects:
- Economics
- Computer science
- Law
- Language and literature
- Philosophy
- Noord-Brabant
- International organizations and statistics
- European Union
The library of the Theological Faculty is located in a separate building.
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The library collects material from all over the world in all the major languages and maintains extensive collections from international organizations such as the OECD, the UN (incl. FAO, ILO, UNCTAD, WHO), the WTO, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. A European Documentation Centre is hosted.
More information on Tilburg's economics collection profile can be found here.
Institutional Repositories
Tilburg University Library runs a document server for archiving online material. Since 1995 the server contains economics working papers from Dutch universities and research institutes. It also contains a growing number of scientific publications from Tilburg University staff and student’s thesis.
Digital Library Projects
Tilburg University has become well-known for innovative digital library and IT solutions over the last decade. Current projects are as follows:
- Beter Zoeken en Vinden (Improving Search and Recall)
This project aims to develop a new and innovative system for
searching the information available to the users of Tilburg University.
- Student portal
A new service which allows the students of Tilburg University to organise and arrange all information relevant to their study according to their own personal needs.
- ICTO Pilot Patient in Beeld (Patient in focus)
By using state of the art IT, students can have live access to certain
medical procedures via videoconferencing. The project also aims at
collecting and making more multimedia content available for students.
- Digitaliseringscampagne (The increased digitisation of library material)
An onging process. At Tilburg University we focus our attention on those
materials most heavily used by staff and students so that both the access to
the material is improved and delivery time is shortened by providing that material online.
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