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On-line Catalogue
OPAC (On-line Public Access Catalogue) is the bibliographic database where all the collection materials are accessible. The user is able to search for the material he/she desires (monographies, journals, reference material, encyclopedias, theses, dictionaries), get informed about the collection and make reservations of the wanted material through e-mail. The On line catalogue is accessible at: http://www.lib.ait.gr .
Circulation
Circulation rights apply to all members of AÉÔ (faculty, staff and students) and Intracom. Researchers and external users have the right to consult the collection and its resources, to photocopy it, if they wish to but external loaning is not allowed.
All the library material is available for circulation except for the informative material and periodicals. The copies are loaned for a period of 5 days and without the right to renew the loaning period before at least one week has elapsed and for 5 days for the members of Intracom who attend the relevant courses.
Postgraduate students and members of the Intracom group of companies are entitled to borrowing up to 5 items for 10 days at a time. Whereas the members of AIT scientific staff are entitled to borrowing up to 5 items for 15 days.
All categories of users have the right to renew the lending period twice as long as the respective material is not requested by other users. After the second renewal the same user cannot borrow the same item before at least 1 week has elapsed. For the renewal the user ought to bring back the item before or at the due day.
The titles of Selective Bibliography (SB) are loaned for a period of five (5) days, without the right to renew the loaning period before at least one week has elapsed and for two (2) days for members of Intracom who attend the relevant courses.
The loan period can be changed at the librarian's discretion and recommendation of the scientific head of the library for items in great demand for certain time periods.
The user who loses or brings back the material in bad condition is obliged to replace it within a week or, if out of stock, to pay for the item's value.
Postgraduate students ought to return the loaned material to the library before graduation.
InterLibrary Loaning(ILL) Service
Interlibrary loaning is the process where the bibliographic material of one library is disposed to another one. Through this process the Library offers to its users upon request material that cannot be found in its own collection.
Availability of use of the ILL service is offered to all AIT members (faculty, students and staff) and the Intracom Group of companies.
The source of ILL for the Library is the National Net of the Scientific and Technological Libraries (NNSTL) and is referred temporarily for the supply of periodical articles.
Indispensable condition is the application's filling. After its filling, it is given to the Library's staff for the ordering fulfillment. The user is informed of the coming material and receives it from the Library.
E-journals
AIT faculty, staff, students and members of Intracom Group of companies have access to the electronic version of the following journals, which are also
available in their print version located in AIT library.
Harvard Business Review
The Chronicle of Higher Education
International Journal of Systems Science
IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology
Tables of Contents (ToCs)
Tables of Contents (ToCs) are a weekly newsletter that provides access to over 60 science and general journals of the AIT Journal Collection.
This service enables you to keep your research up to date and also to have an overall view of Journal Collection, which is continually supplemented and expanded.
Browsing the contents of all current issues you can request- by sending e-mail at library@ait.gr the article of your preference or of your specific specialty.
Reading Rooms
AIT Library, apart from its own reading room, offers separately a unique
study space of 150 square meters for its community. Centrally located on the
ground floor of AIT premises and next to the Library, the reading room meets
study needs either for individual study or group study, operating daily 24
hours round the clock. Furthermore, there is a phone connected with a direct
line so as to promote a safe and secure environment.
Carnegie Mellon Libraries
Services
The students, professors and librarians of AIT are authorized users of all the services that Carnegie Mellon provides. AIT Library is the mediator coordinating these services which are the following:
On-line Catalogue
The users have access to the Carnegie Mellon automatized catalogue, Cameo, which lists more than one million books and other materials. The catalogue is available on the library home page at http://www.library.cmu.edu, which provides access to on-line collections and services, journals, high-quality databases, archives and other digitized resources.
ILLiad Service
ILLiad (Interlibrary Loan internet accessible database) is an electronic service that users can use to request books and articles from Carnegie Mellon libraries or from other institutions (http://www.library.cmu.edu/Services/ILL/)
For submitting the ILL request, users have to enter their name, address, ID number only once, at the time of their first request. (https://illiad.library.cmu.edu/illiad/firsttime.html/)
Students can take up to 50 items for 30 days with one renewal per item while faculty up to 100 items for 90 days with one renewal per item. Item delivery time averages 7-10 working days.
PALCI
PALCI (Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc) is an electronic service that provides the possibility of simultaneous searching in catalogues of Pennsylvania Libraries.
JAKE
JAKE (Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment) is an electronic source that ensures a thorough searching of e-journals and articles included in them.
http://jake-db.org/docs/about.php
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