PRACTICAL ADVICE
HOW TO BECOME A LIBRARY USER
In order to become a library user, the student must:
- Visit the Check-out desk and show his/her student ID,
- Enter his/her personal password into the database in order to be able to reserve books,
- A bar code bearing his/her library card number will be attached to his/her ID.
In order to check out a book, the student must:
- Log into the directory (orion.wsb-nlu.edu.pl) typing the library card number displayed on the bar code and his/her personal password, search for the book and note down its author, title and call number
or
- Find the book using the traditional directory and note down its author, title and a call number,
- Visit the Check-out desk with his/her student ID,
- Give the librarian the data concerning the book (its author, title, call number)
In order to extend the deadline for returning the book, the student must:
- Personally visit the Check-out desk and show his/her student ID,
- Ask the librarian on duty to extend the deadline for returning the book in question.
- If you need statistical data
Visit the General Reading Room or use An Abbreviated Statistical Book on CD in the Periodicals Reading room.
- If you don't know how to compile a bibliography and footnotes
You will find a manual 'How to reference' in the intranet.
- If you are looking for a firm
There is a CD-based database called Enterprises 2004 (Przedsiębiorstwa 2004) in the Electronic Reading room located in building C (level II)
- If you need articles in Polish on topics such as: privatization, creating a capital market, banking, taxation system, small business, social and economic situation in Poland, Europe's political and economic integration
Use the databases: Gospodarka i Nauki Społeczne (Economy and Social Studies)
Information and access at:
biblioteka.wsb-nlu.edu.pl/online.shtml
- JIf you are looking for articles on business in English:
Search the PROQUEST database
Access code is available here
- If you are looking for articles on various fields in English:
Search the EBSCO database
Access code is available here
- If you are looking for bibliographic data of a book, search :
OPAC directory
The National Library
The Directory of Diffused Polish Libraries (Katalog Rozproszonych Bibliotek Polskich - KaRo)
- In the following databases you will find English-language articles on:
Economy - OCLC, IDAL, EconLit
Education - ERIC, Harward Educational Rewiew
Psychology - PsycInfo, OCLC, InfoTrac
Public Affairs - PAIS International
Multi-subject databases: ProQuest, Ebsco
Access these databases in the Electronic Reading Room (Building C, level II)
- Useful www addresses:
Library's Electronic Directory - OPAC:
http://biblioteka.wsb-nlu.edu.pl/english/prolib.shtml
Information on access to the electronic databases of NLU:
http://intranet/strefa/biblioteka/nlu/
Library electronic information board (Intranet)
http://intranet/strefa/ogl/?dzial=biblioteka
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