Tasks and Services
Our functions
- We are a generally accessible specialist library and service institution providing media items and information in East and Southeast European studies with a focus 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
- We make media stock accessible, with regard to both form and content, in the Regensburg Catalog’s OPAC and in specialist databases
- We offer support to individuals to help them acquire information from all available sources and we provide that support in a timely manner
- We enable access to electronic media (local and global)
- We engage in local, national, and international joint ventures with libraries and other information institutions for the purpose of effectively supplying of information
- We help supply media items and information from other libraries
- We make media items available as part of the interlibrary loan between German libraries
- We promote the information skills of users through training
- We maintain and retain our old stock and enable electronic access through digitization
- Through various projects and joint ventures, we contribute to creating an electronic research environment for East and Southeast European studies in the fields of social science and the humanities