The Scientific library of our Baltic International Academy is well known not only in Latvia, but also far beyond its borders. It is an authoritative member of the Association of Scientific Libraries of Latvia, it has established scientific and information relations with the scientific libraries of the largest universities in Europe.
Here you can often meet students and scientists from universities with which the BIA maintains scientific and educational relations under the ERASMUS international exchange programme. Thus, from April 9 to April 11, a postgraduate of the University of Silesia in Katowice, Tomasz Bugaj, worked fruitfully here. He collects materials for his scientific work, which is devoted to the study of intercultural relations and the mutual influence of different cultures on each other.
According to the guest from Poland, the BIA Scientific Library has a rich selection of publications on this topic. It is also important for him that here he can receive qualified consultation not only in English, but also in Polish, which the library director Natalia Gratkowska is fluent in.
As the director explained, Mr. Bugaj has long-standing creative ties with the library. He was interested not only in the library’s holdings, but also in the collection of rare manuscripts and the activities of our cultural and information centres. She is sure that over time, the scientific work of Tomasz Bugaj will take its rightful place in the collections of the Scientific Library of the Baltic International Academy.
In the photos: Director of the BIA Scientific Library Natalia Gratkowska advises postgraduate Tomasz Bugaj. Librarian Elena Slatina acquaints a guest from Poland with the library’s collections.
Photos by the BIA Press Service.
