Library

The history of the library of the “Ion Ionescu de la Brad” University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine is closely interwoven with that of the university itself, being formed in 1933 while the Faculty of Agriculture had its headquarters in Chisinau. Library collections have a broad spectrum of titles, comprising books, reference books, magazines, manuscripts, CD-s, video cassettes.

The library has a total number of 112,597 titles, out of which 105,942 are reference books and 6,655 magazines. The inter-library loans programme is carried in association with 29 foreign and 18 domestic partners. A total of 3163 professors, students, researchers, PhD researchers, from all over the country regularly attend and benefit from the library.

Range of services offered:

• reading rooms allowing access to the entire collection;
• loans available from the collection;
• national and international inter-library loans;
• photocopying;
• translation services.;
• information retrieval service by trained staff to help users locate subjects;
• access to databases and E-journals, information on access and internet search tools.

Access to the library of the USAMV – Iasi is possible only to those in possession of a university library card, which also allows access to the reading rooms and to the borrowing service. The library identity cards are issued by a special service of readers’ evidence, which functions within the documentation compartment of the library.

Contact

Prof. Gilda Drăgănescu
telephone: +40 232 407.455
e-mail: gildad@uaiasi.ro