Head of the Department: Baktygul Tantakova
Email: tantakova.b@qyzpu.edu.kz
Phone (work): +7 (727) 237 0129
Functions of the Department:
- Current and retrospective acquisitions for the library collections;
- Subscription to national and international periodicals in printed format;
- Receiving, recording and processing inquires from subject librarians for subscription/purchase of printed and electronic information resources (EIR), including collections of electronic books, databases of electronic journals, access codes and other resources, services and tools;
- Preparation of documentation for the procurement of goods, tools and services in order to ensure the activities of the Library;
- Monitoring the execution of concluded contracts, keeping records of delivered/completed/rendered goods, works or services under contracts initiated by the Department, as well as monitoring the use of funds allocated for these purposes, including monitoring incoming price offers;
- Organization and implementation of test access to EIR and their evaluation, analysis of statistics of their use;
- Initiation of procedures for subscription/purchase of EIR and preparation of documentation for their implementation;
- Keeping records of acquired EIR;
- Organization and conduct of trainings on organizing access to and using electronic resources with the participation of representatives of supplier companies;
- Monitoring the situation on the electronic resources market and informing library users and staff about electronic resources and services available on the market that meet the needs of library users;
- Establishing and maintaining contacts with publishers and electronic resource suppliers to ensure effective solutions to organizational and technical issues related to providing library users with access to certain electronic resources;
- Individual and summary accounting of documents received by the Library;
- Technical processing of documents received by the Library;
- Non-inventory accounting of multi-copy literature;
- Registration and accounting of documents not accepted on the balance sheet of the Library;
- Compilation of bibliographic descriptions for library documents in accordance with current standards;
- Systematization and indexing of documents in accordance with the classification system adopted in the Library;
- Editing elements of bibliographic records;
- Distribution of new acquisitions to the appropriate departments of the Library;
- Exclusion of obsolete, defective, unused, non-core and duplicate documents from the library collections;
- Conducting trainings on classification of information resources;
- Providing statistical and analytical information on issues within the competence of the Department;
- Consulting the library management on issues within the competence of the Department;
- Maintaining the necessary documentation of the Department in accordance with the procedure established at the University and the functions assigned to the Department;
- Participation in the development and implementation of the Library’s Strategic Goals within the competence of the Department;
- Information support for the planned and reporting activities of the Library and the Universiy on issues within the competence of the Department.