Progress Report
Society/Corporate:University of Maribor Library
Country: Slovenia
Web page:
Name:Vitodrag Vodnik
Email:
Phone: +386 2 2507400
Fax:+386 2 2526087
Mission Statement
The University of Maribor Library is the central library and information center of the University of Maribor. Its role is to offer students, researchers and visitors as much material as it can. With its fond of materials the library covers all of studying programs at the University of Maribor and literature for the public interest. Library has very important and large local documentation department, which collects local documentation of the North-Eastern part of Slovenia, as PATLIB center, it offers informations about industrial property, there is Austrian reading room as a special collection of materials as donationof Ministry of Culture of Republic of Austria, EuropeanDocumentationCenter and many other collections.Materials which are not available in library itself could be ordered from abroad in the Interlibrary Loan Department.
Main catalog / Union Catalog
Software and hardware used:
COBISS – Cooperative Online Bibliographic System and Services. COBISS Library Information System is jointly formed by IZUM (Institute of Information Sciences) functioning as the Library Information Service and libraries participating in the shared cataloguing system.
Digital Library / Local repositories:
Software and hardware used:
Most library electronic resources ,e-journals, databases and e-books may be searched from any computers at the University of Maribor ( IP authentication). Remote access from home or other remote locations is available only to current university students and staff .
We use software called NetMan/HAN (H+H Software GmbH) to facilate remote access.
System (NetMan/HAN + COBISS) authenticates users as University of Maribor students or staff by requiring a login password and library card number.
General search and link services:
Software and hardware used:
At Institute of Information Sciences (IZUM), there is the server installed for the COBISS for the mainly part of the slovenian libraries. The users can access COBISS through the link , where they can search through the catalogues of different libraries, from national, university, public, special or some school libraries.
New and special features:
IZUM is in last years developing new graphical interface for the COBISS system, known as COBISS3 (older version known as COBISS2, ASCII OpenVMS based system, for the access to the system we use WRQ Reflection2 client). COBISS3 is now used in Interlibrary loan, Acqusition and partly in Cataloguing.