The library of the SUITT began to function in 1930, simultaneously with the foundation of the Odesa Institute of Communication Engineers.
Throughout its existence, the library has employed highly qualified staff who have made a significant contribution to the development of the subdivision – these are the heads of the library: L. H. Anchypolovska (from 1944 to 1966), M. V. Tetenko (from 1966 to 1969), P. L. Chepurnyi (from 1969 to 1975), L. P. Meretskyi (from 1975 to 1985), and S. V. Khalupska (from 1985 to 2012).
Since 2012, Olena Hryshchenko has been the head of the library.
In the first years of the library’s operation, its collection consisted of 2,000 printed items and served more than 450 readers.
Today, the book collection includes more than 600 thousand copies. The topics of the collection are diverse: telecommunication systems, information security and data transmission, communication networks, fiber-optic communication lines, cybersecurity, information technology, computer technology, logistics, radio communications, telemedicine, television and radio broadcasting, postal communication networks and systems, metrology and standardization, management and marketing, project management, business economics and corporate governance, sociology, political science, cultural studies, as well as books on history, social sciences, linguistics, art, and others.
A significant part of the collection is books on natural sciences: mathematics, physics, and others. It is gradually replenished with literature both in print and in electronic form.
Every year, the library subscribes to many national magazines and newspapers. The publications are in Ukrainian, English, French, German, and other languages.
The library offers a wide range of national and world fiction.
The library’s search apparatus comprises a system of paper library catalogs and card indexes, an electronic catalog, and a collection of reference and bibliographic publications.
One of the library’s priority areas is the transition to new technologies for the formation and use of information resources and the computerization of internal processes.
Since 2004, an electronic catalog and the primary reference card index of journal articles have been maintained. The EC is replenished with new acquisitions and retro items and contains more than 160,000 records available to all catalog users. Unilib is used as an information management system.
The following databases have been created:
– bibliographic descriptions of book publications;
– analytical descriptions of periodicals;
– dissertations of university scientists;
– bibliographic and bio-bibliographic indexes;
– collections of training and methodical manuals of the SUITT;
– scientists of the University;
– Repository (open electronic archive) of the SUITT.
The scientific publications posted in the SUITT Repository are indexed in Google Scholar.
The SUITT Library has been and is an active participant in the educational process aimed at forming students’ social consciousness, promoting intellectual and creative development of the individual, and striving for professional growth. We regularly organize exhibitions, reviews of new acquisitions, book exhibitions dedicated to significant dates, virtual exhibitions, open literature reviews, presentations, department days, information days, excursions, public events, etc. Since 2016, the library staff has annually organized events dedicated to World Poetry Day. This was the impetus for the publication of two collections containing the poetry of the University’s students, faculty, and staff.
Also, in May, the library traditionally celebrates the Day of Embroidery, where the staff demonstrates handmade products from different regions of Ukraine from the early twentieth century to the present.
The library section of the University’s website contains information on news, library activities, electronic resources, a list of services, acquisition, and virtual exhibitions, as well as useful links, information on scientometric databases, open educational resources, etc.
The library has a structure that includes three departments and one sector:
– acquisition and scientific processing of documents, which forms the library collection by acquiring scientific, educational, and methodological literature by curricula, programs, and research topics, as well as systematizes new literature, performs bibliographic description, creates and maintains a system of paper and electronic bibliographic catalogs: alphabetical (in Ukrainian and foreign languages), systematic;
– reader service and book storage, which includes:
- a) subscriptions: general subscription (an automated service system has been introduced, and electronic ordering is carried out), subscription of methodological manuals;
- b) two reading rooms for students, postgraduates, and the faculty. The library’s general reading room has a Wi-Fi access point. The use of the network is free and without registration;
- c) organizes rationally arranges the main and auxiliary library collections, their storage, restoration, and conservation; creates and maintains a topographic catalog;
– the Information and Bibliographic Department provides bibliographic and information services to readers by their information requests: maintains the main reference card index and bibliographic thematic card indexes both in traditional and electronic form, provides analytical description of periodicals, compiles bibliographic and bibliographic indexes, performs all types of bibliographic references, including in automated mode, provides the Virtual Reference Service, which allows to serve readers remotely. Students and teachers are provided with the service of assigning UDC indexes to publications. The Department is engaged in researching scientometric databases, such as Web of Science and Scopus, and filling the Repository (open electronic archive) of the Institute.
To popularize and increase the rating and accessibility of electronic libraries and information resources of scientific libraries of Ukraine through the use of modern library and web technologies, the library of the SUITT 2020 joined the project of the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine “Science of Ukraine: Access to Knowledge.” Including a link to the Repository in the Vernadsky NBU register made it possible to increase the number of views of publications in 2020-2023. Work is constantly underway to popularize the University’s Repository among students and researchers (promotional booklets, mini-lectures, advertising on social networks, writing scientific articles, preparing presentations, etc.)
On Facebook, the library publishes information about celebrations of essential dates, public events, exhibitions, presentations, open screenings, etc.
The university library is constantly improving its information and communication environment, an essential component of electronic information resources and user service in an automated mode.
