EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY CYPRUS LIBRARY

EUC Library is located on the 2nd floor of the South Block Building. It occupies three quarters of the floor and has a total area of 900 square meters. The Library is designed to provide a seating capacity of approximately 120 persons.

The university Library is centrally heated and air-conditioned in order to enhance the learning environment of the University. The Library has a Reference Desk (that is used as an office area for the four librarians), a section of current periodicals, a book collection, a computer section (for searching the Library database and for Internet use), a display area for new books and periodicals, the World Bank Depository Library books, and 6 computer booths. The chairs and tables are located throughout the Library in a way to create an atmosphere conducive to learning. In addition, it houses a bookstore, and a photocopy centre.

The Library is fully computerized in order to assist librarians and students in a variety of ways. Computer terminals are available for the users providing access to the Internet. There are 17 public workstations supporting the needs of users, 3 stations for searching the Library's cataloguing system and 1 station used by the librarians in assisting users and to provide training courses. The Library has two primary objectives. The first objective is to maintain an adequate, quality collection, comprised of curricular and co-curricular materials and to meet the educational needs of students as well as the professional needs of the faculty and other personnel. The second objective is to provide and maintain services of high quality that will encourage the appropriate use of the Library by faculty and students. In order to achieve the above objectives the Library has set a number of guidelines, which include:

  • Flexible Collection Development
     The Library acquires books not only on subjects strictly related to the degrees offered by the University but also on topics of interest to students and faculty, current affairs, society, latest innovations debates or problems.

  • Strategic Partnerships
     In order to achieve to the fullest the support offered to faculty and graduate students alike the Library has come to agreements with the British Library and the Library of the State University of New York at Albany. The two Libraries can provide us with books or articles requested by our users.

  • User-Centered Services and Commitment to Innovation
    The Library promotes the use of emerging technologies for learning and is responsive to the educational technology needs of faculty and students. Guidance is offered to all users in order to take advantage of the benefits offered by the Information Age. The Library works in partnership with the faculty to teach information literacy that will provide opportunities for students to acquire and practice research skills at all levels of the curriculum.

  • Continuous Improvement
     The advancements of the Information Age require constant improvement and upgrading. The Library in order to keep up with the current quick pace of technology continuously upgrades its technological facilities and research tools.

Library Services

EUC Library is open 5 days a week for a total of sixty five hours. The Library schedule is Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. In addition, the Library is open 6 days during the Christmas break and 6 days during the Easter break, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. m. In addition, the Library is open 6 days during the Christmas break and 6 days during the Easter break, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Library collections are organized by internationally approved conventions and are arranged for efficient retrieval at the time of need based on the Library of Congress Classification System (LCCS). EUC Library uses the LCCS since 1986. The Library provides its users easy access to books, periodicals, journals and other reference material.

For the search of a book the Library is fully computerized. A user can track down a book by simply entering the author, a keyword or title of a book. The user can also search the database by subject so he/she can look at all books in the Library on a specific topic. To assist research, the Library subscribes to a number of databases such as Infotrac-SearchBank, Proquest's ABI/Inform and Curriculum Package, PsycArticles, ACM Digital Library, Emerald Insight, Sage Premier 2009 and EBSCO's Academic Search Elite, through its Internet facilities. EUC Library was the first to offer the Proquest ABI/Inform and Emerald Databases in Cyprus. The databases provide users with access to full-text magazines, journals, newspapers, conference proceedings, company reports and many more.

The photocopy center located within the Library provides services to students such as typing, photocopying and selling school materials and supplies.

The Library is also in charge of ordering and selling textbooks. The goal of the bookstore is to make student life easier by providing students with all needed textbooks without having to go searching around the town.

Library Personnel

Theodoros Tzitzimbourounis - Head Librarian
Tel: 22713154
Email: T.Tzitzimbourounis@euc.ac.cy

Marianna Philippou - Librarian
Tel: 22713153
Email: M.Philippou@euc.ac.cy

Stella Nicolaou - Cataloguing Librarian
Tel: 22713153
Email: S.Nicolaou@euc.ac.cy

Demetra Demetriou - Assistant Librarian
Tel: 22713153
Email: D.Demetriou@euc.ac.cy