Material and technical resources

The faculty of journalism and political science of  L.N.Gumilyov Eurasian National University is located in the case No. 4 located at the address: Yanushkevich St., 6.

Total area is 4491 sq.m., useful area – 3195 sq.m. In total the classroom fund makes 2878 sq.m. Purely classroom fund – 2319 sq.m, including: offices – 184,1 sq.m, the gym – 535 sq.m, gym – 85,9 sq.m, the assembly hall – 307,6 sq.m, other educational audiences – 1206,4 sq.m, buffet – 31,5 sq.m, sanitary and household rooms – 75 sq.m, other technical rooms – 1457,7 sq.m. In total seats on the case – 458.

In educational process are used the computer class equipped with 13 computers, educational teleradio studio, laptops, the video camera, the radio equipment, a projector (figure 1).

Figure 1. The material and technical resources used in educational process

Rooms are equipped with modern educational furniture, the computer equipment, stands, conform to the existing sanitary and epidemiologic requirements and meet the requirements of rules of the general and fire safety.

 At the university the uniform system of library and information service, purchase of educational and methodical literature according to applications of department and faculty is introduced. The department closely cooperates with library concerning acquisition of necessary educational literature in the form of applications and monitoring of new literature in the specialty. The university buys various and substantial literature on various profiles. The contingent of educational programs for the Political science direction has an opportunity to use funds of the scientific reading room Otyrar. Capacity of the hall is 350 seats.

  In structure of scientific library (figure 2) - 6 departments: department of completing and processing of documents, department of cataloguing and systematization of documents, department of automation of library and information processes, information and bibliographic department, scientific and methodical department, department of service of readers. For users of library 4 subscriptions and 7 reading rooms on 700 seats work.

Figure 2. Structure of library

In library 4 catalogs are regularly replenished: traditional (alphabetic, systematic, office) and electronic catalog and also "Card file of a knigoobespechennost of educational process" and electronic "Card file of articles of periodicals". Since 2008 the automated library information program (KABIS) is introduced. She automates the main library processes: completing, cataloguing of fund, accounting of readers and a knigovydacha, a subscription and also search of information on all fields of the bibliographic description of documents quickly carries out. The electronic catalog corresponds to needs of users of library, in it there is an opportunity to obtain information on full text books and articles, and on electronic resources of library. Search is carried out according to "Title", "Author", "Date of the edition", "A subject heading", "Publishing house". Search result is the list of documents which titles represent references to archives with full texts and materials. Access to the electronic catalog is possible for all categories of users from any personal computer connected in local network of the university. In the electronic catalog there are thematic databases: "Works PPS L.N. Gumilyev ENU", "L.N. Gumilyev ENU on pages of the press", "Current problems of the higher school", "The dissertations defended in L.N. Gumilyev ENU", "New receipts", etc.

Students have access through safe WiFi to the Internet to catalogs of the www.rmeb.kz Republican Interuniversity Electronic Library (RIEL), Kazakh National electronic library (КазНЭБ) www.kazneb.kz, a DB of Adilet of www.adilet.zan.kz and to world databases and resources: "SpringerLink" www.rd.springer.com, "Thomson of Reuters" of www.wokinfo.com, "ELSEVIER" www.sciencedirect.com, "POLPREDSOM" www.polpred.com, "RGB" www.rsl.ru, www.nabrk.kz, library Nazarbayev of the www.library.nu.edu.kz, RNPB University and libraries of higher education institutions of Kazakhstan of www.rmeb.kz and also foreign high school libraries (Lomonosov Moscow State University of www.msu.kz, Chelyabinsk state academy of culture and arts of www.chgaki.ru, Sofia university of St. Clement of Ohrid www.uni-sofia.bg and others).

Access is open in the territory of the university (when using the IP address of the university). The hall of electronic resources of Otyrar library on 45 seats has 45 computers connected to the Internet. Students and PPS through local network of the university can use electronic fund of scientific library "Full Text Electronic Resources", located at the address http://library.enu.kz. It allows not only to increase considerably quality of teaching and training, but also promotes the maximum familiarizing of the faculty and students to world scientific knowledge and achievements.

The fund of educational, methodical and scientific literature for the basic and main subjects used in educational process of the educational program allows to provide full-fledged quality of training. The fund of the main and additional literature is constantly updated by the last editions.

Students actively use sources on electronic media which provide high-quality assimilation of content of disciplines of specialty. At department there is an electronic library including the latest literature on disciplines of the realized educational programs. Students and PPS of the educational program have an opportunity to use the computer classes connected to local network of the university and the Internet. Capacity of Internet network is 100 Mbit a second. Free access to the Internet and local network of the university provides ample opportunities for educational and research work by means of access to world electronic catalogs, operational information on the website of the university and to necessary electronic materials and sources; through a possibility of search of places of future training, publications of research works, obtaining information on republican and international forums, round tables, conferences, contacts with foreign professors and experts in the sphere of own scientific interests.

At the university the information system "Platonus" allowing to provide transparency and objectivity of assessment of knowledge of students is introduced. Students have access to cases and control of knowledge.

At the university the INFOKIOSK.ENU project - a uniform entry point in all information systems of the university functions (AIS "Platonus", AIS "Synergy", electronic library – ENULIB, corporate mail, the official site of the L.N.Gumilyov Eurasian National University).

It allows students to receive independently accounts, to have access to a private office of a control system of educational process of AIS "Platonus" (viewing of the current estimates, a transcript, registration for courses) and also to an electronic document management system (Synergy), electronic library – ENULIB, corporate mail.

 The material and technical resources of department constantly are updated, improved and extends. The university allocates financial means for acquisition of the laboratory equipment, educational literature, periodicals, information resources, computers. Material and technical resources and information resources of the university allow to provide high-quality training and release of qualified specialists.