1.Bibliographic Search

This service is provided to AASTMT’s lecturers, employees, and students, who are preparing an assignment, paper, or working on a dissertation. Search results include papers, articles, dissertations, conference proceedings, books or other searches done in the field of study, in such a way that also helps in preparing the literature review. Results can be obtained in print format, on a CD-ROM, or sent via email.

Users can request searches:

• In person by filling "Bibliographic Search Request form" at their Library.
• Using the Online Search Request form.
• Sending email to their Information Librarian.

   

   

  2. Document Delivery

  This service is provided to AASTMT’s lecturers, employees or students. Users who are looking for an article/paper published in a periodical not available in the Library, can order it through the British Library Document Supply Center (BLDSC). Articles usually arrive 10-15 days after ordering them. The Information Librarian will contact the user upon the arrival of the article/paper.

   

   

  3. Current Awareness Services

  Bulletin

  A newsletter is sent by email to all the Academy’s lecturers, in order to keep them updated with developments in Library facilities. This newsletter highlights the areas that might be of interest, like a detailed list of new books added to the library collection, new databases and e-journals added, new services, useful web sites, conferences, and dissertation abstracts.
  To be added to our mailing list, simply send an e-mail to library.alerts@aast.edu

  Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI)

  A personalized service tailored to each user’s needs of information. This service is provided to AASTMT’s lecturers. Users can obtain the results either in print format or by email.
  To receive this service, you are asked to:

  • Fill a User Profile form, either at the Library or Online.
  • The Information specialist then analyses the descriptors listed by the user in the User Profile form as being the area of interest into subject headings
  • A further filtration is done through asking the user to verify the subject analysis performed by the Information Specialist to eliminate irrelevant subjects or add new keywords that are in turn translated into subject headings, and then the user is asked to verify them once more, and so on until an agreement on a final descriptors list is reached
  • The Information Specialist then enters the User’s Profile into the computerized Library System for processing and a report of available monographs is printed or sent by e-mail to the user whenever an addition to the Library’s database matching his/her interests occurs.