Polityka gromadzenia w Bibliotece Wojskowej Akademii Technicznej

Abstract

Changing reality requires also from us, librarians, a new way of perceiving the world, and, at the same time, new methods of gathering, working out and making the newly collections obtained as well as the already stored ones available. The library of the Military University of Technology in Warsaw had to find a way to fulfil the new expectations of the more and more demanding users. This process has been in progress for almost 25 years, since the times of publishing announcements, through the times of the fulfilled slips of paper and their analysis, till the times of the information published online. The university to which the described library belongs, educates mainly military students. Till 2001 they constitued one hundred per cent of the readers. Their lifestyle, the way a military student’s day is organised, plus the economic, political and social conditions of the specific time period, had a fundamental influence on the acquisition policy. This paper deals with the topic of gradual changes in acquisition the coherent collections which is our current occupation. The acquisition of journals is not enclosed here, since this is attended by the workers of Journal and Digital Resources Reading Room.