A Day in ... the Library and Archives
09:00 The NAWI Subject Library at Stremayrgasse 16 fulfils book requests relating to chemistry, geodesy, mathematics and natural sciences. Christina Raab takes back books that have been lent out.
10:00 Gerlinde Maxl, Viola Mayerhofer, Maja Bartl and Michaela Zottler (from left to right) plan the events for the coming semester. These include the new ‘library appetisers’ with 30-minute inputs on the research information system Pure, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID), and publications published by TU Graz University Press. The full programme: Events
11:00 The Research Data Management team led by Ilire Hasani-Mavriqi come together for their regular weekly meeting. The main topic of the meeting are the numerous offers for TU Graz researchers as well as the RDM team’s own research projects, which revolve around how to make research data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. For more information, see rdm.tugraz.at.
11:30 In the main library at Technikerstraße 4, the thematic focus is on architecture and civil engineering. In the journals department on the first floor, Sabine Zierler provides advice on how a research article can be made publicly available – keyword ‘open access’.
12:00 Ulrike Krießmann was head of the Library and Archives OU for ten years, and David Frank took over on 1 October. Together with the deputy OU manager Stefan Fink (centre), the two took advantage of the sunny weather to discuss the handover at lunchtime in the Alte Technik park.
Find out more about Ulrike Krießmann and David Frank: Handing over the Baton in the Library
13:00 Mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, IT, process engineering, computer science as well as energy technology, measurement technology and thermodynamics are the thematic focus of the Inffeld Subject Library at Inffeldgasse 10. Simone Pinnitsch (centre) and her team, here Tobias Seidlhofer and Julia Lang, offer practical group rooms for students to work together; similar rooms are also available at the other locations.
14:00 What is the workflow for registering a TU Graz publication in the digital library systems? Christoph Ladurner and Maria Wruß look after the software and program suitable interfaces to ensure that everything runs smoothly when working with Pure, the ALMA library system and the TU Graz Repository, which is based on the open source software Invenio developed jointly with CERN.
15:00 The newly designed learning spaces on the 3rd floor of the main library invite you to linger. Bianca Amschl (1st from left), Sonja Bela (2nd from left) and Rose Solomon (4th from left) look after the lending desk on site. Ulrike Dicks (3rd from left) lists all new books in the library system so that they can be found in the literature search: TU Graz Library Search
16:00 Three years ago, the Architekturarchiv Steiermark was opened at Münzgrabenstraße 36, together with the Institute of Architectural Theory, History of Art and Cultural Studies and the House of Architecture. Bettina Paschke leafs through a drawing studio book from AZ 3 from the last century.
19:00 Bookworms can browse in the main library until nine o'clock in the evening, including the commemorative publication ‘Rückschau Einsichten Ausblicke – 150 Jahre Bibliothek und Archiv der TU Graz’, which was published to mark this year's 150th anniversary of the Library and Archives. The volume takes a comprehensive look at the library's history and contains fascinating interviews, including a photo essay. You can download the printed commemorative publication at www.tugraz-verlag.at or read it online free of charge.
Even a whole day in the Library and Archives can only give you a glimpse of the wide range of services. More information on the research areas and projects can be found on the website: Library and Archives
You can find this article and other articles to browse through in TU Graz people #94, the magazine for TU Graz employees and interested parties.
