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1 “St. Kliment Ohridski” str.
5800 Pleven
Tel.: +359 64 884 100
Fax: +359 64 801 603
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Chief Librarian
Valentina Icheva
Tel.: +359 64 884 151
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The library at MU-Pleven is the only one big and specialized medical library for the whole North-West and Central-North Bulgaria, which was established in 1974 with the main purpose to serve the training, scientific and diagnostic needs of the university and the university hospital. The library is divided into several sectors: borrowing section with free access; reading-room for lecturers with Internet access; reading-room for students; reading-room for self-preparation with audio and video materials; internet-hall; depository and offices. The library attends to the needs of the under-graduate and post-graduate students, PhD students and the lecturers at Medical University-Pleven and the medical specialists of the town and the whole region.
The book and magazine supplying at the library is realized through purchases, subscriptions, donations and book exchange. At the beginning of the year 2005 the Library at MU-Pleven had at its disposal more than 74 000 volumes of medical literature, textbooks, magazines, CDs and video films. Currently a subscription is made to 20 western magazines, two medical data bases on-line and to more than 50 Bulgarian medical magazines.
Since 1995 a network programme has been installed at the library for automatization of the library processes with four working modules: cataloguing, periodicals, borrowing service and search module. An electronic catalogue has been worked out and is currently maintained of all the books which have been available at the library since 1995; and also a data base with all the magazines which have been received since 1974 up to the present moment. The library’s readers have enough computers to work individually with Internet, with data bases or on-line, also with printers, scanners, recording devices, Xerox machine, etc.

STRUCTURE – sectors:

Supplying
Valentina Icheva
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In charge of supplying of books, magazines, data bases by means of purchase, donations, exchange and subscription. The “New Books” bulletin is issued as well.

Processing and Catalogues
Marlena Chimpilska
Tel.: +359 64 884 253
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She is in charge of processing the new-coming literature and of data input in the catalogue system of the library which is systematic, alphabetic and official. ‘Our Authors’ and ‘World Health Organization’ card-indexes are also maintained, along with the whole library documentation.

Reference and Information
Veselka Davidova, engineer
Tel.: +359 64 884 110
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She is in charge of information references into data bases and Internet, instructing the customers how to use the information resources of the library. She also maintains the computer network of the library, and the on-line catalogue as well.

Servicing and Book Funds
Nina Todorova
Tel.: +359 64 884 137

Gabriel Georgiev
Tel.: +359 64 884 137
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He is in charge of servicing the readers in the Borrowing Hall and the Reading-room for students. They also register the new-coming readers, giving out books for use at home, and carry out orders for the reading-halls. They inform the readers on topics of interest and help them use the library resources fully. They are also the ones who maintain and control the preservation of the library funds.

Periodicals
Albena Mladenova
Tel.: +359 64 884 137
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She takes care of making the subscriptions and the daily registration of the periodicals at the library. She keeps up to date the electronic ‘Periodicals’ data base in due time and the card-index of the periodical editions which are received regularly. She offers good service and advice to readers on different issues and topics of their interest.

RULES AND REGULATIONS
The library functions in accordance with the Regulations for the Organization and Work of MU-Pleven, the resolutions of the Academic and Rector’s Councils of the University, and the normative base regulating the function of all the libraries within the country and according to the Regulations of the Library at MU-Pleven as well.

RESOURCES
The library at MU-Pleven is proud to possess rich collections of biomedical and reference editions and also various subscriptions to international and Bulgarian magazines displayed with free access in the reading-rooms of the library. There has been elaborated an electrical catalogue in the library of all the books which have been purchased since 1995 and another electrical catalogue of all the magazines which have been received since 1974.
The readers can use medical databases on CD: Silver Platter Collection, EBSCO Medline with Full Text, ProQuest Collection, and also many monographs and atlases on CD.
The library has made a subscription recently to three on-line data bases which are namely: ProQuest Medical Library, EBSCO Academic Search Premier, SpringerLink.
The library possesses a collection of 120 medical training films.

COOPERATION
The library of MU-Pleven maintains cooperation and exchange relations with many other medical and non-medical libraries at various higher educational institutions within the country.

New Books Bulletin
The ‘New Books’ bulletin is issued to inform the readers about the new editions which have been received through purchase, donation or exchange. It is distributed in the departments of the University and in the clinical units at the University Hospital as well.

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