Welcome to Vilnius

dr. Žibutė Petrauskienė

Vilnius University Library

Zibute.petrauskiene@mb.vu.lt

Vilnius University Library

Open Access Scholarly Communication and Information

Center

• A complex of buildings will be constructed in the business cluster Saulėtekio slėnis (Saulėtekis Valley) around the new building of the University library - Open Access Scholarly Communication and Information Center (MKIC).

Some facts and figures (1)

• General data. • The total space of new center building is 13 242,74 square

meters, for the storage – 2637 square meters accommodating about 1,6 million documents. It is planned to accommodate about 0, 31 million publications in the open stocks.

• The Center will have about 803 work places for customers and 85 work places for the staff.

• The new building will consist of three blocks pieced together by common ground floor. The constructions will be of 2, 3 and 4 floors with 2 floors basement area underground: one technical floor and one book storage floor.

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Some facts and figures (2)

• Reading rooms: • Specialized reading rooms • General reading rooms • Mediatheca (with 8 individual and 10 open places of work)

Cabins for individual work (45);• Rooms for team work (9).• Other public spaces:• The Conference Hall with 250 places with full installation of

radio, with stationary multimedia and installations for simultaneous translation;

• The Bookshop;• The Café.

We look forward to welcoming you to Vilnius!