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WHAT’S NEW
2012
02 January - Opening hours change
From the beginning of 2012 the Library will open earlier and close later. See current opening hours here.
2011
08 December - 'Europolitics' stops 'New Neighbours' bulletin
The 'Europolitics' team has just announced that it intended to stop the publication of the monthly periodical 'New Neighbours' by the end of December this year. December issue will be the last one and the title will not be continued. All the information compiled in the periodical is provided first-hand in 'Europolitics' daily. Both titles are available in our Intranet for internal access only: Europolitics, New Neighbours.
17 November - Professor Norman Davies' lecture
On Monday, 21 November, 2011 at 5.00 pm Professor Norman Davies will deliver a lecture entitled: "Vanished Kingdoms". The lecture will be held in the Retinger Building, Auditorium 2 at the College of Europe, Natolin campus.
The lecture is organised by the European Parliament-Bronisław Geremek European Civilisation Chair. The draft list of books by Prof. Davies available in the Natolin Library is available here.
26 September - Library Information Seminar
The European Information Seminar addressed to the students of Marie Curie-Skłodowska promotion took place on 24 September. Mr. Ian Thomson Director of the European Documentation Centre at Cardiff University has delivered two lectures: 'The role of information and communication in the governance of the European Union' and 'Europe on the Internet A selection of useful websites for information on the European Union and the wider Europe'. The material to accompany both lectures is available here: lecture one ; lecture two.
30 June - Summer vacation opening hours
In July and August our opening hours are:
Monday – Friday - Open 9:00 – 17:00
Saturday and Sunday - ClosedNormal opening hours resume on Monday 5th September 2011
5 April - EuroVoc 4.3
Today the Library implemented version 4.3 of the EuroVoc thesaurus to our catalogue. With the updated version of EuroVoc the Library users will benefit from more comprehensive and more relevant tool enabling more effective search in the catalogue.
EuroVoc is a multilingual and multi-disciplinary thesaurus covering the activities of the EU. It is managed by the Publication Office. It serves as a coherent indexing tool for the management of wide range of information resources. It was originally built up specifically for processing the documents of the EU institutions. Today its users include the European Parliament, the Publications Office, national and regional parliaments in Europe and many other libraries and documentation centres in the world. The Natolin Library has been using the EuroVoc for subject indexing of its collections since 1993.
The new features of version 4.3 include:
- updated English and French vocabulary (including new terms e.g. Treaty of Lisbon)
- updated equivalence, hierarchical and associative relationships
- Polish language version and subject indexes in Polish.
For more information on the EuroVoc thesaurus please visit http://eurovoc.europa.eu
If you have any questions or should you encounter any problems concerning the thesaurus please contact the system administrator Paweł Mielczarek.
10 March - “World Politics Review” trial access
A new database provided by EBSCO will be available for testing at EBSCOHOst platform from 10 March till 10 May 2011.
“World Politics Review” is a daily, online publication and resource for foreign policy professionals and readers with a serious interest in international politics and foreign affairs. Its original articles are written by a network of more than 400 contributors from around the world, including subject-matter experts from journalism, research organizations, academia, government, and elsewhere. World Politics Review covers topics of key relevance to foreign policy, international politics, and foreign affairs. To test the database simply go to EBSCOHost website.
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