Academic Internship at Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica within the framework of the National Scholarship Program of the Slovak Republic.

June, 2018

Director of the Library at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Ph.D. in Social Communications, Tetiana Sergiivna Opryshko has completed a month-long internship at the library of Matej Bel University within the framework of the National Scholarship Program of the Slovak Republic on support of students, postgraduate students, university professors and research staff mobility (SAIA Programs).
During the internship a number of meetings were held with the staff of all departments of the library. In the course of these meetings various issues of sharing best practices and the ways of cooperation were specified. In particular, an agreement on posting scientific journals "Education", "The Modern Higher Education Review" and "Open Educational E-Environment" on the website of Matej Bel University was reached.
The program also included visits to the leading Slovak libraries, namely to the State Library of Science in Banska Bystrica, the Slovak National Library in Martin, the Center for Scientific and Technical Information in Bratislava, the Matej Hrebenda Slovak Library for the Blind in Levoča and several university libraries.
As a result of the internship, a plan of measures to implement the Development Strategy of the Library at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University was drawn up.