Lithuanian University of Health Sciences  LUHS

Library and Information Centre 

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Presentation of organisation

Lithuanian University of Health Sciences is the largest specialized health education institution in Lithuania. LUHS is an international university where students are educated for health profession and it has over140 international agreements with universities from all over the world. The programmes of the Faculties of Medicine,  Odontology, Pharmacy, Nursing, Public Health, Veterinary meet EU directives.

LUHS Library is one of the leading libraries in the Baltic countries with newly built modern library premises and advanced information technologies implemented: Integrated Library Information System, RFID Library System,  e-repository, Virtual Library, ETD. Virtual information services for local and remote users are provided round the clock, there is access for mobile devices, educational courses, etc.  The LUHS Library has been involved in many national and international projects under programmes of EU Social Fund, Nordic-Baltic partnership programme,  Tempus-Phare, Nordinfo, etc.

The role of the organisation in the project

LUHS staff has experience in managing and participating in national and international projects. LUHS staff was a leader in national library modernization projects for implementation of LIS in Lithuanian universities, implementation RFID library systems, training librarians and users on information literacy. This experience ensures to be experts and advisors to modernize Moldovan university libraries, create e-Library, institutional e-repositories,  organize information services to academic community, deliver educational courses on maintenance and working with LIS for library personnel and information retrieval for library users. LUHS personnel's experience and knowledge will help colleagues in Moldova to achieve faster the European level of university libraries.