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The Library
University of Suriname consists of the main library and the medical
library.
Director of Libraries
Ms.
Jane W.F. Smith, M.A.
University Campus, building I
Phone:
(597) 465558 ext. 265 or (597) 464547
E-mail: j.smith@uvs.edu
The
Main Library of the University of Suriname is located at the
entrance of the University
campus.
Address:
Leysweg 26
P.O.
Box 9212
Paramaribo, Suriname, South America
Phone:
(597)-464547 or (597)-465558
Fax:
(597)-434211
E-mail: adekbib@uvs.edu / adekbib@sr.net
Head
Central Library: Eddy
Moespar
Tel: (597) 465558 tst.
269
The
Medical Library is located at the Medical Sciences Research
Institute (MWI)
Address:
Kernkampweg
P.O. Box
537
Paramaribo, Suriname, South America
Phone/Fax:
(597)-442215
E-mail: medbib@sr.net
Deputy
Head Medical Library: mrs. Asha
Ramkhelawan-Kali
Tel: (597)
441007
COLLECTION
The collection of the Library of
the Anton de Kom University consists of documents concerning the
studies of our three Faculties namely:
*
Faculty of Social Sciences (Economics, Law, Business
Administration,
Sociology and
Public Administration)
* Faculty of
Technological Sciences ( Environment, Mineral
Production,
Electronics,
Agriculture, Mechanical Engineering)
* Faculty
of Medicine (Medical Science, Physiotherapy)
The Suriname
collection, a special collection, contains publications on
Suriname.
Suriname
does not have a national library, therefore most libraries has their
own Suriname collection.
This precious information about our
country will soon be accessible online.
The National
Database Suriname, a collaboration between several libraries in
Suriname, will be established.
The University Library has the Depository
Library status of the FAO and the United Nations. As a UN
Depository Library the publications and documents of the UN are
available printed as online.
Since
1990 the catalogue is automated in CDS/ISIS (Computerized
Documentation System/ Integrated Set of Information System).
The collection is not only accessible via the Online Public Access
Catalogue (OPAC)
but
also via
internet.
INFORMATION MEDIATION
Special information needs, which can not be
satisfied by the information desk at the loan department
should be submitted at and will be answered by the Department of
Information Mediation (Head, mrs. Erna Helder-Beek, info.adekbib@uvs.edu).
INTERLIBRARY
LOAN
With
this service publications, which are not available in the University
Library are borrowed from other libraries, also from
abroad.
DATABASES
The University Library participates
in several international and regional networks. For some our Library
is the national coordinator. The data is processed by the different
institutions and send to headquarters by the Department of
Automation of the University Library (Head, ms. Glenda N. Louis, (data.adekbib@uvs.edu).
Agriculture
AGRIS/CARIS:
The
FAO Agricultural Information System, a bibliographic database for
agricultural literature and the Current Agricultural Research
Information System are coordinated by WAICENT/FAO. These databases
are both available on CD-ROM and on the internet.
SIDALC
SIDALC (Agricultural
Information and Documentation
System for
America) is a hemispheric network that is based on the wealth
of agricultural information resources found in the Inter-American
Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) offices, the
Inter-American Institute for Tropical Agricultural Research (CATIE)
in Turrialba, Costa Rica and the libraries and documentation centers
in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
The system is
funded by the Kellog Foundation, IICA and the Participants of the
network (in the form of counterpart contributions). It's mission is
to facilitate access to agriculture and related information,
produced and/or identified in LAC, in order to aid the development
of the nations of these countries.
Actors are the participants
including the IICA offices in 34 countries and the related national
institutions.
Health
The
objective of the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health
Sciences Information (BIREME) is
the promotion of technical cooperation in scientific and technical
health information in Latin America and the
Caribbean.
BIREME coordinates the Latin American and
Caribbean Health Sciences Information System from PAHO and is
located in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
LILACS
The
Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information
(BIREME) coordinates the Latin American and Caribbean Health
Sciences Information System from PAHO and is located in Sao Paulo,
Brazil. This database is on-line and Internet accessible, while 30th
LILACS CD-ROM was released march 1998.
MEDCARIB
This
is the English Caribbean component of the system, available on-line,
through Internet and on LILACS.
Politics
PDBA
The
University library in close cooperation with the Faculty of Social
Sciences has made a commitment to provide the Political Database of
the Americas (PDBA) with
relevant information about Suriname. Therefore on a regular
basis updated data from the interested and involved parties out of
the Civil Society is collected, screened and scrutinized according
to academic standards.
Socio-economics
CDL
The
Caribbean Digital Library is a virtual collection of Caribbean
documents and other information resources available on the world
wide web, organized for easy retrieval under 27 broad subject
headings.
Environment
SIAMAZ
The
Amazone Information
System is coordinated by a regional coordinating center located
at the Library of the Universidade Federal do Para (UFPA) in Belem, Para,
Brazil.
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