As we celebrate the annual Libraries Week (May 8-15th) with the official theme “Library – the whole world in one place”, some spectacular events will take place in the MUG Main Library.
 

On Wednesday, May 11th, we would like to invite you to participate in the cross-cultural communication workshop How to be culturally intelligent and why worth trying? run by Professor Natasza Kosakowska-Berezecka. The event will take place at 1 p.m. in the Reading Room no. 2 in the MUG Main Library and will be held in English. You can count on more attractions after the meeting during the “Intercultural Integration Coffee”. Thanks to cooperation with our partners – SASS, Resource Team, Phi Delta Epsilon, MedHum, Welcome Point, Gazeta GUMed and GUMed Museum – you will get the chance to compare medical bags from XIX and XXI century, participate in numerous funny activities and have a less formal chat. Snacks – from all over the world – included.
 

From May 9th the exhibition-surprise "72 in 1" will be presented. We are sure that – according to libraries week theme – it is possible to create the whole world in one place. You won't need 80 days to explore it, here it will take just a week!

About workshop:

We live in the global world that is challenged with global problems – the pandemic, climate crisis, migration and refugees seeking shelter from horrendous conflicts and wars. We are all interdependent and if we do not learn how to cooperate across nations, cultures and regions we will not come even close to solving any of these problems. Cultural intelligence is one of the key social competences necessary to foster such cooperation and a necessary asset if you work in cross-cultural setting. During this 1,5 hour meeting we will focus on how to be inclusive and open to diversity and develop our cultural intelligence that can be used in solving interpersonal conflicts.

Natasza Kosakowska-Berezecka has a PhD in Psychology and works as an Associate Professor in the Division of Cross-Cultural Psychology and Psychology of Gender at the University of Gdańsk. Her main area of practice and research is gender equality, diversity and work-life balance within the area cross-cultural psychology and her special interests are mechanisms of bias, social change and organizational cues fostering social capital and diversity within organizations and societies across the world. She lectures at Polish universities but also abroad (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge; Arctic University of Norway, Tromso; University of Brunel, Uxbridge, London; Universidad de Granada, Spain; Delhi University, India; University of Geneve, Switzerland). As diversity expert she also co-authored the Integrative Model for Migrants for City of Gdańsk.

Hope to see you in the Library!

New rules and regulations for using our resources are applied from March 7th, 2022.

Lending Unit and Learning Zone:

Mon: 10:00 a.m.-7:45 p.m.
Tuesday-Friday: 8:00 a.m-7:45 p.m.
Saturday: 9:00 a.m-3:00 p.m.
Sunday: closed

The Learning Zone is open for students and university employees. There are general rules that apply in areas of the Library such as:

• all study rooms are now available as follows:

            
             Study rooms 4&5 – 1-3 people in each (in person at the library desk in the Reading Room 1 or in the Lending Unit up to maximum 7 days in advance)
             4 remaining rooms – without reservation

• appropriate nose and mouth covering must be worn in the Library and hands must be disinfected before entering the Learning Zone and the collections area;
• to use a computer workstation with the MUG's master's and bachelor's theses database or arrange individual consultations in the Scientific Information Reading Room you should send an e-mail (containing your name, surname, the number of your index or the number of your MUG Library card) to biblioteka.informacja@gumed.edu.pl or call 58 349 10 45, no later than the previous day.
   

Borrowing books

• Books from the store room are ordered via the online catalogue and then collected from the Circulation Desk.

Returns of books

• This can be done:
  -   in person at the Lending Unit,
  -   by means of the book drops available: in the vestibule of the main entrance to the Library building within the Library opening hours, or at the site entrance from the Dębinki Street from 6 a.m. until the opening of our Library,
  -   sent to the address:
  
  Biblioteka Główna Gdańskiego Uniwersytetu Medycznego
  Wypożyczalnia
  ul. Dębinki 1
  80-211 Gdańsk
   

• You are asked to protect books against damage.

Settlement of fees

• Persons who have an unpaid fee for a late return (the amount to be paid is shown in the Virtua reader's account, in the account tab) are asked to pay the fee in person at the Circulation Desk (by means of payment card only).
   

We strongly recommend you follow the announcements on the Main Library website.

Scientific Information Reading Room:

biblinf@gumed.edu.pl
 

Lending Unit:

biblwyp@gumed.edu.pl

By the cooperation of the libraries under the Fahrenheit Union of Universities in Gdańsk, MUG students, PhD students and employees have access to new electronic resources in 2022:

• an extended collection of electronic journals of Taylor&Francis - apart of Medical Library collection, there are also available two new ones: Science&Technology and Social Science&Humanities;

• from the new complete collection of journals of Cambridge University Press - there are available 4 journal packages: Medical/Vet, Business, Humanities&Social Sciences and Science, Technology and Medicine.

In addition, the MUG Main Library subscribed new CINAHL Complete database for 2022 - a full-text database of nursing and medical care journals.

The database is available for four simultaneous users on the EBSCOhost platform.

Access to these databases is possible in the MUG network or via the HAN (Hidden Automatic Navigator) proxy server.