February 14-15 employees of the Academy of Public Administration library took part in the 3rd “Transformation of University Libraries in the Context of Modernizing Higher Education”International Conference.
The conference was held at the University of Narxoz (Almaty) under the auspices of the Association of University Libraries of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The conference addressed to topical issues of library and information support of educational and research activities of universities. An online translation of the experience of the Tomsk State University Research Library was held in the framework of the “New Models and Ways of Transformation of University Libraries”session. The second day was devoted to the “Quality Assurance in Library Activities: from Licensing to Accreditation”seminar, where current issues of changes in the legal and regulatory instruments and qualification requirements for licensing, as well as international and national approaches to assessing the quality of the activities of educational organizations.
The Library Forum has become a platform for professional cooperation and a consolidated solution of issues related to the activities of university libraries.
Today, the library of the Academy of Public Administration has a total fund of more than 40,000 educational and scientific literature,. titles of the faculty of the Academy works, about 4 thousand names of foreign literature in English, German, Spanish, French and other languages.