The Library

Mr. Fabrizio VENEZIANO is responsible for SIU Library as well as Manager of the IT section, which includes the computer lab, the wireless network, the campus official website and server.
He is available for any request in these two domains with the following schedule:

Opening hours: from Monday to Thursday 9-18; on Fridays 9-17.
Loan procedure: as soon as you bring a ID photo you will get a library card, so you will be able to borrow a maximum of 4 shelf-books at a time, for no longer than two weeks. Reserve books cannot be checked out (see below).

The library is at the very bottom of the corridor, on your left. It also gives you access to the corriputer lab.
In these two working spaces, it Is absolutely forbidden to eat, drink or smoke. Silence should be respected and group studies should be conducted in the group study room.

The library is open to all alumni and present Schiller students, to faculty and administration. None outside the school has the right to come in the library and use its properties.

The librarian is here everyday to help you in your researches.
Several students also work in the library : a schedule is posted on the library's door to indicate who is working when. Do not forget that these assistants are students and that they are here to work and not to socialize.

You can find information in the library thanks to three different media: books, periodicals and the Internet (concerning the Internet, see special information).

1 - There are over 5,000 books in the library, arranged according to the Dewey Decimal System (the number, or call number, that you can see at the bottom of the binding), which is a way to class documents according to a common theme; example: all the books on business will be together, as will all the books on marketing, etc.

To find the title you are interested in the fastest way is to look it up in the card catalog ( on your left when you come in ): you can look up by subject, by author or by title. Once you have found your title, write down its call number which appears on the left of the catalog card and which enable you to search on the shelf. If you have trouble finding it, ask for the help of the librarian or of one the assistants.

2. The library also receives three daily papers, the International Herald Tribune, the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times (you can ask for them at the circulation desk), as well as many periodicals : see list for titles. All of them are kept in the library since there is only one copy of each title. Please don't take any to the study group room or to your house. This also prevents losses and damages
To do a research, it is not necessary to go through all the issues of a magazine to find the article you want : the library also subscribes to the Business Periodical Index and the Economist Index, which list, according to subject, all the articles that have been published.
The Facts on File, located on the Reference shelf, offers the same kind of help to a research, with a slightly different method.
Archives of periodicals are also kept in the reading room.

3. An access to the Internet is available on a computer located in the library (see more information on the Internet).

Let's try to be brief and concise about the subject ! There are three kinds of books in the library:

1. Regular books can be loaned for a maximum of 2 weeks. Four books can be borrowed at a time, not more.

2. The reference books (which are dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other formal statistic or data books) are NOT for home use: they are located on the wall on your right when you come in. You will recognize them by the R preceding their call number.

2. The "reserve" books are textbooks that you will find behind the circulation desk. They are organized according to title of the different courses and then by alphabetical order.
Example : International Marketing, by Philip R. Cateora is under BA 322 for International Marketing.
Those books can be borrowed for two hours during the day, taken home for the night from 5 o'clock and returned the next day at 11 am or on the Monday if the book was checked out on a Friday night. Students who are late giving their books back are fined 5 FF an hour. To help you find your textbooks, the syllabi of the different courses are on the desk
Are also put on reserve recommended readings at the request of your professors (articles, chapters...)
Theses of alumni, which call number begins with "T" are also kept in the library : ask the librarian for her help.

The circulation desk is a pole in the library and it might be useful to recapitulate its services !

This is the place to go to have your books checked in or out: the librarian assistant will write your name and the date on the book's card and stamp the book with the return date and where:
- you can ask for the daily papers
- you can ask for copies of past exams and for recommended readings
-you can leave your bookbag
- games can be borrowed and taken out to the students lounge

-The photocopier: photocopy cards are on sale at the price of 10 € for a hundred copies. Ask the librarian.

Barron's National Business and Financial
Business Week
Business and Society Review
Capital
Current History
Diplomacy and Statecraft
The Economist
L'Entreprise
L'Essentiel du Management
Euromoney and Supplements
Europe
L'Expansion
Facts on File
Figaro:Grandes Universités + Supplements
Financial Times
Finance and Development
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Policy
Forbes and Supplements
Forbes Global & Finance
Fortune
Harvard Business Review
INC
INC Technology
Industrial & Labor Relations Review
International Affairs
International Herald Tribune
lnternational Labor Review
Journal of Marketing
Journal of World Business
Marketing Management
Nato Review
Newsweek
New York Times Book Review
OPEC Bulletin
Political Science Quarterly
TimeMagazine
US News
Wall Street Journal
Workforce
World Politics

The computer Lab, has 8 computers, all equipped with Windows 95 or Windows 98 and with several software: Word 6 or 97, Excel.5 or 97, Powerpoint and Access. There is one black/white printer and one in color.

RULES OF LIFE IN THE LAB.
- The computer lab. is a working space, therefore students may not eat, drink or smoke in it.
- Silence should be respected so that everyone can concentrate on their work.
- Working on floppy discs
Students should work on diskette and not save on the hardware. You can buy a disc from the librarian ): to save problems and losing documents, students should never work on C drive. Any document saved on C drive may be lost since the librarian and the computer assistants periodically clean this drive.
-Virus check
Each time you start working on a computer, please do a virus check or your floppy disc with the anti-virus. In December 1997, 45 viruses have been detected on the computers...lf students want to improve the work conditions in the computer lab, and not take the risk of losing a 30-pages document the day before due date (this has already happened...) PLEASE MAKE IT A HABIT TO DO AN ANTI-VIRUS CHECK. It takes two minutes!
If you don't know how to do it, read the instructions tapped on the computer or ask one the computer assistants to show you. Try to learn from what he/she shows you and not only have him/her do it for you.

The following general information is on libraries and bookstores in Paris that you may have to use regularly or occasionnally.

Before attempting to use the libraries listed below, telephone before going there to see if they have what you need. By so doing you will save time and footsteps. Or ask us to do the checking.

10 rue du General Camou ( M° ECOLE MILITAIRE or ALMA MARCEAU)
75007 Paris Telephone: 01 53 59 12 60

Founded in 1920, The American Library in Paris is an endowed, subscription library operated on a non-profit basis.
Collections : General adult fiction and non fiction; children's books; periodicals; reference books; phono discs and cassettes.
Services Reference, Circulation, Photoduplication.
Hours Tuesday through Saturday -10:00 a.m - 7:00 p.m.
Closed Sundays, Mondays, French legal holidays, July 4th, Thanksgiving. August: reduced hours (see posted schedule).

The Paris Study Center will pay for your membership to the American Library in Paris provided that we have approved your enrollment beforehand. To this end, you are invited to submit an Application for Use of the American Library to the Paris Study Center librarian. (No application will be accepted prior to the second week of the semester or within 2 weeks of the end of the semester). The American Library in Paris will not enroll you as a member without our authorization.
It it is not possible for us to approve your enrollment as a student member of The American Library in Paris, alternatively we may be able to reimburse you the cost of a daily-use pass to The American Library in Paris on condition that you have our prior written agreement to the refund.

Opening Hours : Monday - Tuesday & Thursday - Friday11:00 -18:00 Hours.
Wednesday11:00 -19:00 Hours.
Saturday - Sundays Closed.
Subscriptions : 200 F a year (please remember to bring a photo).
(A permanent address is required - The Library does not accept
hotel addresses, "poste restante ", etc.).
N.B. : You pay for your own membership.
Library closure : Please note that the library closes for two weeks at Christmas,
Easter week and from mid-July to early September.

Members are entitled to borrow 5 books, 5 music and/or speech record or speech cassettes 5 back numbers of periodicals and to use all the other facilities within the lending and reference libraries.

The most important are listed in the directory, Bibliotheques spécialisées de Paris et de la région parisienne on file in the Library for your use. In this publication, the libraries are also enumerated by subject(s), along with days and hours open and conditions of access. We list the most useful to you :

Centre Georges Pompidou
2nd floor
Plateau Beaubourg
75004 Paris
M° Rambuteau, Hotel de Ville, Châtelet les Halles.
Open : Monday, Wednesday, Friday 12:00 - 22:00 Hours Saturday, Sunday 10:00 - 22:00 Hours
Closed Tuesday

Its open-stack collections, up-to-date books and periodicals, many in English, in all fields, along with generous hours of service, a large public service stall, inexpensive photocopying, make it a useful library. In addition to books, periodicals, slides and microfiches, there is a language laboratory (médiathèque) on the lower level of the library, and a room of new publications (sane d'actualité) on the ground floor of the Centre Pompidou. Please note that books and other publications cannot be checked out.
For information over the telephone call : 01 42 7816 48

Following the transfer of the printed and audiovisual collections from the Rue de Richelieu site, this reserved-access research library is now opened with 2000 reading units. The collections in these rooms, totalling 180,000 volumes, including 2,500 different periodicals have been built up through acquisitions and can be freely consulted. They are complemented by microform reproductions, digitized documents, audiovisuals, and multi-media recordings.
Two types of passes are available : a 20 F one-day pass is valid for the entire day, even if the holder temporarily leaves the library. Annual passes are valid from the date of issue and cost 100 F for students (students must show their Schiller identity card).
It is opened from Thursday to Saturday from 10 a.m to 7 p.m and on Sundays from noon to 6p.m.
Books and publications cannot be checked out.

Opening Hours : Monday to Friday 08:30 - 20:00 Hours. Saturday 09:00 -19:30 Hours.

Note : Annual closing in second half of July. Use requires an introduction from the Schiller International University Paris Study Center.

VILLE DE PARIS BIBLIOTHEQUES (Complete list on file in Library)
These are free neighborhood public libraries run by the city of Paris with at least one in each of the twenty arrondissements. Many of these local libraries are housed in attractive new or remodeled quarters with open-shelf collections of fiction and non-fiction including reference works and periodicals. Many also have a records collection. Only registered users may borrow books for home use. A card can usually be obtained by giving satisfactory proof of identity and residence.

By clicking on the following links you will have access to different databases and library catalogs.

LIRN Database	(Type Schiller membership code (59327) to start your research)
Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Bibliothèque Publique d'Information (Centre Pompidou)
British Library
Library of Congress