About the Library of Abylkas Saginov Karaganda Technical University

Libraries are firmly embedded in our lives. Many people get to know them during their school years. This is where the need for new knowledge leads readers of different ages and professions.

University libraries have always played a special role in the history of society. The educational process, methodological developments, scientific research, cultural heritage, upbringing and traditions are not carried out without the participation of the library.

The library of Karaganda Technical University began to be formed in 1953 as the library of the Mining Institute. The book fund is based on books from mining institutes in Moscow, Leningrad, Dnepropetrovsk, and Kharkov.

Today, the library is significantly different from what it was at the time of its opening. It is one of the largest in Central Kazakhstan. Reading rooms and subscriptions, diverse collections and collections, and a well-thought-out reference apparatus attract to our library not only teachers and students of our university, but also young people and intellectuals of the city and region.

Tasks of the University Library

Preserving the traditional, age-old tasks of preserving book collections with the addition of the function of information centers that promote the initiative of open science, most fully and qualitatively reflecting the content produced by university teachers and staff in the information space.
Formation of a portfolio of modern educational services aimed at promoting the introduction of innovative educational products and technologies, improving the quality of education, developing e–learning and distance technologies.
The development and transformation of the library‘s activities in accordance with modern trends in the development of education and science.
Formation of general cultural skills in information hygiene, training users to search for high-quality information outside of library resources.

Activity

The library‘s development strategy corresponds to the goals, objectives, and priorities of the national education system.

The main activities of the library are:

the diversity of the content of the educational process based on high-quality acquisition of the library fund;
organization of comprehensive library and information services for all categories of users, ensuring their free and safe access to information, knowledge, ideas, cultural values, and fostering interest in a healthy lifestyle;
teaching readers how to use books and other media, how to search, select, and evaluate information;
implementation of the scientific and educational policy of the university.

Partners

The library is presented as part of a single, global university intellectual space and directs its efforts to develop a mechanism for partnerships between the library and readers, aggregators of information resources, and book business enterprises in the field of document supply of the fund.

The reader is the main partner of any library. Based on readers‘ requests, the library develops, forms a document fund, implements information technologies, and makes plans for the future.

An electronic library system is a mandatory element of library and information support, which is a database containing educational, scientific, educational, methodological and other literature used in the educational process.

The book publishing house is a source of replenishment of the book fund according to the needs of readers and satisfying the interests of various target groups of the university.