Author - Lina Blovesčiūnienė, Vytautas magnus University. Digital libraries as electronic information access systems provide selective, well managed and quality learning resources that effectively support e-learning.

1. Why is it important to
start the opening from
the library?
Lina Bloveščiūnienė,
Vytautas Magnus University Library

2. Faculties of Humanities, Arts,
Catholic Theology and Institute
of Foreign Languages
more than 45 000 items on
philosophy, history, art, theology,
philology, literature, foreign
languages, etc.
Vaclovas Biržiška Library

3. Social Sciences and
Law Faculties Library
24 000 items on psychology, sociology,
law, social work, social politics,
educational science, etc.
Mykolas Römeris Library

4. Informatics and Natural
Sciences Library
more than 25 000 items on environment
protection, biology, chemistry, physics,
computer science, etc.
Vincas Čepinskis Library

5. Music Academy Library
Music Academy Library
more than 20 000 items on music
theory and history, performance art,
analysis of music works, etc.

6. Library of Political Sciences
and Diplomacy, Economics
and Management
more than 22 000 items for study
programs and research in Economics and
Management, Political sciences and
Diplomacy
Leonidas Donskis Library

7. Library in numbers (2016)
PUBLISHING

8. Library in numbers (2016)

9. Institutional repository (VMU ePub)
Institutional repositories: essential infrastructure for scholarship
in the digital age. The development of institutional repositories
emerged as a new strategy that allows universities to apply
serious, systematic leverage to accelerate changes taking place in
scholarship and scholarly communication. Clifford A. Lynch,

10. VMU ePub statistics (2016)

11. Open Journal System

12. Electronic resources

13. Virtual Library

14. THANK YOU!
Vision of library future