14. starptautiskā konference 2012 - Latvijas Jūras akadēmija

Proceedings of 14th International conference „Maritime Transport and Infrastructure - 2012”6000050000431634561750245 50974 52160 546794000030000200001000002006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011Fig. 1. LMA library fund 2006-2011 [3].Heads of academicals departments, lectors are actively involved in the process of filling thefund of library by carefully analyzing, studying, discussing and selecting the most competentinformation for specific study programs. The fund is also constantly filled with literature published bythe Lithuanian Maritime Academy lectors (fig. 2.).6000500040003000200010000510838082561151811588102006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011Fig. 2. LMA library fund supplement 2006-2011 [3].The library fund is funded by various international projects and own resources, i. e. in 2011LMA spent 3.5 times more financial recourses than in 2010 and purchased 3808 copies of 272 titles. Avariety of publication is satisfying, because in every period of 5 years academy purchases in average216 different title publications. This trend is not forgotten this year either, in the first quarter of 2012LMA purchased 1153 copies of professional literature in Lithuanian and English, dedicated tomaritime specialists.The number of library users constantly changes and it is mostly affected by the LMA students:in 2007 there were 2% more readers than in 2006 however in 2008 there was a 14% decrease inreaders number and in 2009 the readers number again got up to the level of 2007 and is constantlyrising. In 2011 the library had most registered readers in its history – 1754.In order to making maritime studies more international it is essential to increase the fund ofliterature written in English, because at the time of research English literature had a part of only 9% ofall fund. Otherwise this could be explained by the fact that most of the English literature is provided inelectronic form. The documents of the International Maritime Organization are available online and toincrease savings and international literature often electronic publications are purchased.134