AUCA Library WEB-site

One of the greatest skills you can learn today is the ability to know what information you need and how to find it. The dedicated library staff will help you gain the critical skills to explore a whole world of online, print, or multimedia information. With over 70,000 volumes of books and periodicals in print and electronic format, in addition to a growing collection of audio/visual resources, the library plays a crucial role in the informational support of your education and research needs. The staff strives to provide the most up-to-date titles, journals, and reference materials in the humanities and the social and technical sciences.

Open seven days a week, the library aims to provide easy access to information and resources for students, faculty, and staff of the University through its online electronic catalog and nearly a dozen online databases and reference sources, like EBSCO, JSTOR, Columbia International Affairs Online, LexisNexis Academic, Oxford Reference Online, Cambridge Journals Online, East-View and others. We provide an access to more than 30 thousand titles of full-text electronic books, monographs and scientific peer-reviewed journals through EBRARY database. Besides this, AUCA Open Electronic Library is a very new resource where the University academic records of AUCA editions, theses and abstracts, published articles, methodological materials of academics, are compiled and kept. The library also provides frequent training sessions for all students and faculty on effective research strategies and bibliographic projects.

Several international organizations support the library to replenish its resources and collections. Library partners include the Open Society Institute, Indiana University, the SABRE Foundation, the U.S. Embassy-Kyrgyz Republic, and the World Bank. The library also founded the Kyrgyzstan Library Information Consortium in 2003 and is an active member of the American International Consortium of International LIbraries (AMICAL).

'We are very proud of our library staff. Because of their high professional level and creativity we can implement many services for our students, such as electronic circulation, book reserving, new book exhibitions, and consulting services. We update our library website regularly. We also started the ‘Ask a Librarian’ service to answer your questions 24 hours a day. Our librarians are always happy to help you.'  Safia Rafikova, Director of Library Services