Organisational strukture
Organisational structure
The AMU Library comprises three partly autonomous faculty libraries based in the individual AMU Faculties: theatre, film and music. Their cooperation and management fall within the remit of the AMU Library Directorate. The organisation, management, relations between the parts and their competence, mission and basic activities are regulated by the AMU Library Organisational Code.
The overall operation of the faculty libraries is the responsibility of their Heads. Their competence also includes supplementing and profiling the collections. The opening hours and services of the faculty libraries are designed to meet the specific needs of the relevant faculty. The provision of services is regulated by the AMU Library Rules and the Addenda of the relevant faculty library.
The collections of all the libraries together contain more than 155,000 items. More than half of these are special types of documents, i.e. particularly printed sheet music and audio documents. They also include graduates’ diploma work, scripts (mainly from AMU’s own productions), videocassettes, DVDs. The collections’ contents are organised according to the main field of study, i.e. theatre, music, film and television.
The AMU Library also comprises the study reference collections of the library for the foreign language department and the physical education department. As part of its university the AMU library constitutes an integrated library-information system which organisationally and methodologically is managed by the AMU Library Directorate. With the close cooperation of the AMU Computer Centre the Directorate also organises and secures support for the system administration and development of information technologies, particularly the computerised library system.
The AMU Library Committee is a standing advisory committee appointed by the Rector. It comments on matters of acquisition, the methodology for distributing the budget and its use and on the plans for the individual faculty libraries, or the AMU Library.
