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from the Great Escape”, where migration and diaspora researchers and collectors of cultural heritage made their presentations.
In June 2014, an international competition was announced for TU Baltica Scholarship. The two selected grantees started working with the Baltica cultural history collections of the Academic Library: Dr. Peter O. Büttner from the University of Zurich is studying educa- tional discourse in German school publications of Tallinn and Tartu; and Michael Rocher is focusing on everyday life of schools in the 18th century.
Some structural changes took place: as a result of the TU Law School moving to the university campus, their assets (5,189 items) were added to the collections of the TU Academic Library; the Sports Library together with the Institute of Health Sciences and Sports moved to a new location (Räägu St. 49); the most commonly used foreign language study books were transferred to the study centre at Narva Rd; the service desk in the hall for language study books was closed and by the end of the year a reading hall based on Professor Rein Müllerson´s personal collection was opened in the same room; the open access collection of the humanities was expanded to the home lending room on the second floor.
During the accounting year, the library participated in the fol- lowing ELNET Consortium joint projects: Merging the systems of Tallinn and Tartu, a new common e-catalogue ESTER and transition to a new library system, Sierra. At the end of the year, a modern self-service book return system based on RFID technology was initiat- ed, in which the automatic device sorts items returned by the readers according to their location and availability in the library.
As of 31.12.2014, the reader database had 46,783 users (48,431 readers in 2013), including 21,609 readers from TU (46.2%). A total of 10,620 (22.7% of the readers) students were registered from other universities, including 2,596 readers from UT, 1,979 from TUT and 503 from the Tallinn Health Care College. A total of 66% of the read- ers were students (30,880 readers). A total of 3,682 new readers were registered during the year (3,885 readers in 2013). Different service points of the library were visited on 208,139 occasions (148,916 in 2013). A total of 323,350 borrowings were recorded during the year and 1,829,493 searches were made through databases in 2014 (in 2013 the corresponding number was 1,568,803).
4.4 UNIVERSITY PRESS
In 2014 TU Press publications, both books and journals, reached 20: » six books in the “Gigantum Humeris” series;
» seven books in the “Acta Universitatis Tallinnensis” series;
» five books in the “Bibliotheca” series;
» two journals in the “Periodica” series.
Seven of the publications were originals, including two monographs and five collections. Translations were published in 11 languages and were translated from French (3), English (3), German (2), Finnish (1), Russian (1), Old-Egyptian (1) and classical Japanese (1).
Since 2014 TU Press has published two journals: “Estonian Yearbook of Military History” (in cooperation with the Estonian War Museum, the fourth year of publication and the first year to be published in English), “Slavica Revalensia” (the Board approved the publishing of the journal in Russian and in December the first issue was printed).
TU Press continued with organising campaigns. A St. Valentine´s Day campaign took place in February with the aim of attracting at- tention to the Information Centre in the Astra building. During the campaign the best-designed book published by the Press was de- termined by interviewing people. The title was given to “Kitsas tee sisemaale” (A Narrow Path to Inland); the second place was shared between “Metafoorid, mille järgi me elame” (Metaphors We Live by),
“Vaatemänguühiskond” (The Society of the Spectacle”) and “Ajalugu voolab” (And so Flows History). In September, a campaign (Buy one book and choose another as a present) signalling the beginning of an academic year took place. In December, a Christmas campaign with book discounts by 50%, took place. A total of 19 events, either or- ganised by the Press or where the Press participated in, took place in 2014.
TU Press publications were highlighted in both Estonian and Russian media on at least 60 different occasions. It deserves men- tioning that on several occasions, books that have been published were mentioned on the news programme “Aktuaalne kaamera” (Deleuze and Guattari’s “What is Philosophy?”, Carlo Ginzburg’s “No Island is an Island”, Sakari Orava’s “Sports Injuries”). The Estonian Public Broadcasting has also broadcasted two lectures that preced- ed the presentations: Carlo Ginzburg´s and Jesper Hoffmeyer´s lec- tures. The Est Lit Locus web environment identified the activity of TU Press as being among the ten most important phenomena in the 2014 literary year.
4.5 ESTONIAN PEDAGOGICAL ARCHIVES AND MUSEUM
After a two-year development project, the digital archive “Historical e-repository” (arhmus.tlu.ee) of the museum (hereinafter EPAM) was completed. The aim of the archive is the popularization of the historical heritage of education that is preserved in the EPAM
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