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MSSES' Library

The Moscow School’s Library offers a wide range of library services based on the latest technologies to support the teaching and research activities conducted by Moscow School. Open access to all the resources is a basic principle of the work of the Library. The Moscow School Library was designed and constructed in accordance with Russian and foreign standards of information support for academic education. The whole library is incorporated into one unified space, divided into functional areas: reading of literature, work on the computers, holding consultations and working conferences, and searches using the electronic database etc.

The whole collection of the Library, including the books, magazines, abstract journals and reference materials are accessible to readers. Originally, the collection was formed on the basis of curricula and syllabi, and teaching methods used at Moscow School. With the support of Foundations and grants for the purchase of foreign books, the Library has thematic collections containing publications most of which are not to be found in other major libraries in Moscow and the regions. Unique in content, the collection includes both traditional printed materials, and electronic information resources, which thematically cover the whole sphere of social sciences. From any computerized work-place the readers have open access to the databases of bibliography and full texts, to which the Library subscribes, and also to a collection of CD-ROMs.

The collection currently consists of about 25,000 items. The main parts of the collection are modern scientific monographs, classical and fundamental research, with 42% of the literature being in English. Specifically, the Library stocks new books – 87.3% of the literature was purchased after 1996. In the past five years, the Library has ought over 5000 new books. The periodical publications are represented by home and foreign magazines and newspapers, with over 350 titles. The reference literature consists of about 1000 volumes, including encyclopedias, reference-books and directories, year-books, dictionaries that cover the whole range of subjects taught at Moscow School.

The Library is equipped with the MARK-SQL automated system, incorporating all the library-bibliographical processes, starting from processing new books to lending books to the readers. Another specific feature of the Library is that its whole stock is available in electronic form. In order to protect the Library collection, all publications bear safety markers which are detectable by the exit checking system. This is supported by a video-surveillance system. These measures ensure that the collection continues to benefit all Library users.

Presently, the Library provides services to about 500 readers: the students, lecturers and staff of the MSSES, students and teachers of various associated programs of Moscow School, post-graduates and specialists from Universities having close ties with Moscow School, and from other colleges, research organizations and foundations.