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The Inter-Library Loan Service will not accept any requests during the summer vacation period from 19^th July to 29^th September 2010.

Dear readers, we would like to inform you that library opening hours will be changed during the summer vacation period lasting from June to September. More information here.

Dear readers, please note that the Library will be closed on 1 and 8 May 2010 (Saturdays) due to national holidays.

TBU Library has been recently listed on the prestigious website www.librarybuildings.info among 64 best contemporary European libraries. Thus, it became one of the libraries which should inspire and be an example to others. We appreciate this privilege very much. Thank you.

We'd like to invite you to a lecture about PsycInfo, the most prestigeous psychology database (users from TBU are licensed to access it). The lecture will take place 15.4.2010 starting at 14:00 on the 4th floor of the Library. The lecturers will be Jan Luprich from the Ebsco company and Jana Matějková from the Departement of psychology of Charles university in Prague. You're welcome to use this unique opportunity, we're looking forward to see you.

Library prepared a new service for making study materials available. Any teacher can leave materials for his students at the library for photocopying or lending. All currently available materials will be listed on the library website. More information (in Czech) at Služby - Výukové materiály vyučujících.

This service is intended for employees and students in Uherské Hradiště.
The library users can return, borrow and reserve books in the reading room in Uherské Hradiště.
Dates on which the service will be provided: 9.3., 23.3., 6.4., 20.4., 4.5., 18.5., 1.6., 15.6., 29.6. 2010

Dear library users,
due to maintenance works to be carried out in hall of the U13 building on Friday, 12 February 2010, it will not be possible to access the library through the central staircase. The library will be open as usual from 8 am until 18 pm but users must use the eastern (left-hand side) stairway to enter the library.

Dear users,
a new collection of electronic books is made accessible for you, containing 24 items available in full-text version. For more information please click here and here.

Dear users,
We would like to inform you that the TBU Library has been provided test access to all journals published by Sage (a renowned delivery platform), i.e. to more than 500 electronic journals, particularly focusing on management. The journals will be available until the end of February 2010, therefore, be quick to use the access. Available on: http://online.sagepub.com/

We would like to inform our users about the newly established ”Journal of Competitiveness” published by the TBU Faculty of Management and Economics and focusing on competitiveness and related topics. The journal is available to all users on the website: www.cjournal.cz

Since the beginning of 2010 the TBU Library has been provided access to several new databases such as the JSTOR full-text service (Collection I-IV), art databases “Art Full Text” and “Art Index”, to the most prestigious international psychological database “PsycInfo” and to the full-text source “SocIndex” focusing on social sciences. All the above-mentioned sources and more licensed databases are available here.

Dear Library users,
please find below important news on the TBU Library. The Library Rules including all appendices have been updated.

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On 1^st January 2010 a new website about Tomas Bata was launched, containing detailed information on Tomas Bata Sr., his biography, an extensive gallery of period photographs as well as references to other interesting sources and a bibliography of publications on Tomas Bata compiled by PhDr. Zdeněk Pokluda. The website will be regularly updated.

Dear library users,
since 5^th January 2010 books originating from the dissolved Specialist Library of the SPUR Company have been placed on the 4^th floor of the TBU Library. The books are available to take away (free of charge).

The Library users have the opportunity to use a test access to the JSTOR Database, and that including the complete collections thereof. A registration form has to be completed in order to enter the database. The test access capacity available to TBU users involves 50 licences only – apply for your registration quickly! The test access is valid until 18^th December 2009.
The registration form is available here.

The Library has been provided test access to prestigious electronic journals – “Oxford Journals” – valid until the end of 2009 for the collections entitled Humanities and Social Sciences. The serials include articles back to 1996.
Available on: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/

We would like to inform the research and academic staff at TBU that the TBU Library has been provided test access to two very interesting resources.

COS Funding Opportunities
is a platform involving 25 000 grant opportunities amounting to approximately USD 33,000,000,000.

ScholarUniverse
is a database containing information on researchers, e.g. contact or publications of the respective researcher. Thus, this database represents an ideal opportunity to find partners to cooperate with in your R&D projects.

Both resources are available here.

We'd like to invite all users of the Chemical Abstracts database (we have a license for this database and it's accessible from the University network) to a demonstration of a new platform of this database - SciFinder on the Web. It will take place at 15:30 on Thursday, 22^nd October 2009, on the 4^th floor of the library. Veli-Pekka Hyttinen, a representant of Chemical Abstracts Service for Central and Eastern Europe will be presenting in English. Please inform all of your colleagues who may be interested.

We would like to inform you that the page of Virtual tour UTB Library has been launched.

Dear users,
we would like to inform you that the official page of Library of Tomas Bata University in Zlin on Twitter has been launched.

Dear users,
we would like to inform you that the official page of Library of Tomas Bata University in Zlin on Facebook has been launched.
What can find you there?

• news from the library directly on your wall
• comprendious pictorial tutorials and a virtual tour of the library
• a list of library services offered
• new books, useful information
• possibility of communication with library through Facebook

In compliance with Bursar’s Directive No. 2/2009 [181 KiB] (in Czech only), changes in the price for reprographic services provided at TBU will be introduced with effect from 1/4/2009. The price per single sided black & white copy in A4 format will be increased to CZK 1.2, and to CZK 2.40 per A3 format.

Library users are required to leave coats, cases, bags, backpacks etc. in the staffed cloakroom on the ground floor (Monday to Friday from 8am to 4pm). Restrictions on coats and bags protect the security of the collections and are a condition of admission to Library premises.

Dear Library Users,

Due to relocation of Central Library to the new premises of U13 building, please note change to opening hours:

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Royal Society of Chemistry Database

We would like to inform the users that the Central Library has been provided access to a prestigious database collection within the Royal Society of Chemistry. This database is a very useful information resource in chemistry. The fulltext access also includes approximately 30 electronic journals.

Available on the website: http://www.rsc.org/

Starting from 01/01/2007 the TBU Central Library has been provided access to the EconLit Database. It is the world's most prestigious database regarding economics and related fields - therefore an ideal information source for FaME students.

The database is available at the address: http://web5s.silverplatter.com/webspirs/start.ws?customer=utbzline

The TBU University Library has been granted test access to the LibraryPressDisplay service.

It is a large database containing newspaper articles and offering online access to more than 330 newspapers in 35 languages from 64 countries.

Take advantage of the possibility of complete access to this unique database.
The database is now accessible upon the IP address during 2 months, therefore no password is required.

The Central Library at the TBU in Zlin has bought the access to a collection of 26 electronic books published by the publishing house Wiley. The specialization of the titles involves in particular:

- technical literature
- chemistry and
- economics.

The access is unlimited in time and provided by means of an IP address.

The list of bought titles including fulltext references is available on the menu DATABASE - ELECTRONIC BOOKS or directly at the following address: http://www.knihovna.utb.cz/ebooks/ebooks.php.