Library – Tasks and Services

Our Tasks

• we are a generally accessible specialist library and service institution for the provision of media items and information in East and Southeast European studies focusing on the fields of social science and the humanities
• our services are aimed both at staff from the IOS institutes and external users – local, transregional and international

Our Services

• we purchase media items required for research
• in the Regensburg Catalog’s OPAC and in specialist databases we make media stock accessible with regard to both form and content
• we offer individual support in procuring information from all available sources and provide it in a timely manner
• we enable access to electronic media (local and global)
• we engage in local, national and international cooperative ventures with libraries and other information institutions for the purpose of an effective supply of information
• we help in supplying media items and information from other libraries
• we make media items available as part of the interlending service between German libraries
• we promote users’ information competences through training
• we maintain and retain our old stock and enable electronic access through digitization
• through projects and cooperative ventures we contribute to creating an electronic research environment for East and Southeast European studies in the fields of social science and the humanities