Library

The Information & Learning Commons (ILC)

The Information & Learning Commons (ILC), CITY College’s state of the art library facility housed at our main campus in Thessaloniki Greece. Our students attending programmes in Bucharest may make use of the ILC facilities – mainly the electronic - and services.

The ILC aspires to become a benchmark of quality educational environment and studying experience. It is a dynamic, collaborative workspace that brings together resources and services that support students in research, studying, learning, and in the use of technology.

The information resources include:

• over 30,000 printed volumes
• a core collection of textbooks and references
• audiovisual & multimedia material and equipment
• subscriptions to a variety of electronic resources
• IT, including wireless networking and desktop PCs

Electronic resources (ER) include access, to e-journal and e-book collections, subscriptions to digital libraries and to bibliographic and full text databases. These resources are available to both, on and off-campus users.

ILC resources and services

Objectives of the ILC

• To support the learning, teaching, and research needs of a high quality academic institution, by acquiring and organizing relevant and well balanced collections in a wide variety of formats.
• To provide a platform for developing services and for promoting the use of innovative technologies in order to equally offer all services to local and remote users.
• Furthermore, to offer an accessible, collaborative learning and research environment where people can pursue and share ideas.

Users of the ILC

The main objective of the ILC is to serve the information needs of the students and staff. For this purpose, the ILC’s resources, services and facilities are basically acquired and developed to support our programmes. Eligible users:

• Undergraduate students
• Postgraduate students
• Research students
• Academic teaching staff
• Alumni