Library
Ventspils University of Applied Sciences Library
The Ventspils University of Applied Sciences Library with spacious, bright spaces – a branch of Ventspils Library, has found its home underneath the roof of Ventspils University of Applied Sciences, in Building B.
The university library takes over two floors, and features wide sections of educational literature, periodicals, and fiction. Many dictionaries on various fields, the latest fiction and periodicals are all available in the reading room. Due to the bright and spacious rooms, the university library is suitable for various group assignments. A quiet reading room is available as well.
There are six computers with internet access and one laptop specifically for Ventspils University of Applied Sciences students for work and study purposes. All the databases subscribed to by Ventspils University of Applied Sciences are accessible free of charge from the stationary computers at the library. It is also possible to connect to Science Direct, Scopus and Web of Science.
The Ventspils University of Applied Sciences Library fund is available to every resident of Ventspils; books and other printed publications can be taken home by presenting a valid identity document or an equivalent (Student’s Certificate or International Student Card) or a previously issued United Reader’s Card.
The Ventspils University of Applied Sciences Library is a member of the Association of the Latvian Academic Libraries (LATABA).
The library is located in the premises of Ventspils University of Applied Sciences at Inženieru iela 101, Ventspils.
Services
The following services are available at the Ventspils University of Applied Sciences Library:
- Subscription databases
- Computers with internet access
- Group and individual information literacy classes (training)
- E-readers for use at the library
- Reservation of volumes, extension of book return date (remotely from personal user account, by phone +371 63629658 or by e-mail: biblioteka@venta.lv)
- Copying, scanning and computer printing; Price list HERE
- Recommend a book the library should get that you are interested in but is not accessible. Click here to recommend
- Ventspils Region Common Catalogue: https://ventspils.biblioteka.lv/AlisePAC
- Media Room
- Night loan, holiday loan
- Periodicals (newspapers, magazines, etc.)
- Interlibrary loans
- Inquiries, consultations
Additional offer
- To facilitate the transfer of publications when the libraries are closed, readers can use the Transfer Boxes at the Main and Children's Libraries and the Pārventa Library.
- If the reader cannot find the required book in the nearest library, but it is in another branch of Ventspils library, we remind you that the necessary edition can be ordered. The ordered copy of the book will be delivered to the reader at the nearest library within a few days.
- Ventspils University of Applied Sciences library has its own instagram account: vea_biblioteka
- Idea bank urn now is also in our library. Invest your idea in our Idea bank and we will implement it as much as we can! Readers' ideas, and suggestions can be read here.
- We would like to inform you that the books from Ventspils University of Applied Sciences library can be transferred to other branches of Ventspils library!
Patron, businessman and graduate of Ventspils University of Applied Sciences Mārtiņš Lauva on why to read such magazines as The Economist and Bloomberg Businessweek:
"I started reading "The Economist" already in the tenth grade of high school, at that time more to improve my business English and learn business English terminology. This is already a habit. The Economist is for the general public, its language is simple enough. Reading this magazine gives an opinion about the processes that are topical in the world. Not only in business, but also in politics. I subscribe to both of these magazines at home, and reading these publications is already a habit or an addiction for me - I can't imagine my daily life without them. The business portal Bloomberg, on the other hand, is my job. It is a site where every morning I look at what is relevant in business, what are the stock prices for raw materials and securities and what are the current exchange rates. If you want to do business, you can't imagine without a portal like Bloomberg or other similar industry portals. "
