Library - services, readers and rules
Services
Individual lending:
- Individual lending for the reading-room
- Individual lending for home-reading
- Individual lending through Interlibrary and International Library Services
Bibliographic and information services:
- Information search in online and traditional catalogues
- Users’ service through online catalog ALEPH500
- Free access to online databases
- Citation references in Scopus and Web of Science
- Complete information about all documents owned by the library
- Bibliographic references connected with resources owned by other libraries
- Information about new-coming publications through current exhibitions
- Answers of online requests, verbal references,
Other services: free access to reference books, new periodicals, copying of library documents, microfilm reader.
TRADITIONAL CATALOGUES
They are available in the lending-room of the Library:
- Alphabetical catalogue of books in Cyrillic alphabet
- Alphabetical catalogue of books in Latin alphabet
- Alphabetical catalogue of periodicals in Cyrillic alphabet
- Alphabetical catalogue of periodicals in Latin alphabet
- Classified Systematic Catalogue
For internal use:
- Topographic catalogue of books
- Card-index of journals in Cyrillic alphabet
- Card-index of journals in Latin alphabet
- Card-index of serials in Cyrillic alphabet
- Card-index of serials in Latin alphabet
- Card-index of theses
Readers and rules
The Library is open to all readers who need information connected with its fund and profile. Readers are registered with a card. The reading-room is available to all registered readers.
Only the employees of IO-BAS are entitled to borrow library documents for a period of 3 months. Other employees in the system of BAS may borrow books through the libraries of their institutes for 1 month.
Reference books and periodicals are used only in the library reading room.
Contacts:
Institute of Oceanology
Parvi mai Blvd, 40
Asparuhovo quarter
Varna 9003
Bulgaria
Telephone: (+359) 52 37 04 86 int. 116
E-mail: library@io-bas.bg