Profile of Tilburg University Library
Brief history
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 and 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 just implemented an experimental groupwork and e-learning centre in the library and is planning a complete new electronic learning centre for 2005.
Special units of the library are: European Documentation Centre, Brabants Film Archive.
Special databases produced and maintained by the library are: Brabant Historical Databases, Excerpta Informatica Database, Attent: Research Memoranda (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
- Social sciences
- Language and literature
- Philosophy
- Noord-Brabant
- International organizations and statistics
- European Union
- The library of the Theological Faculty is located in a separate building.
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
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:
Contact Persons
For information regarding resource questions, please contact the information desk:
Corry Stuyts
Information Specialist
Tel.: +31 - 13 - 466 3324
Fax: +31 - 13 - 466 3370
E-Mail: C.Stuyts@uvt.nl
For questions regarding Nereus and Tilburg's involvement, please contact:
Hans Geleijnse
Librarian
Tilburg University Library
Tel: +31 - 13 - 466 2121
Fax: +31 - 13 - 466 3370
hans.geleijnse@uvt.nl
The Library Website can be found under
http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/library/
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