The library was first established in 1967 when the former Samarkand State Pedagogical Institute named after Sadriddin Aini was established. The center during its activities provided support to all staffs and students of the institute to increase the efficiency and quality of the educational process. In connection with the termination of the activities of Samarkand State Pedagogical Institute named after S. Aini in 1992, in connection with the accession to the Samarkand State University, our library continued to function as a branch of the Scientific Library of SamSU. According to the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan "On the organization of information and library provision of the population of the Republic" dated June 20, 2006 No PQ-381, the library of SamSU became a scientific information resource center, where our library continued to operate as the second branch of the Scientific Information Resource Center (IRC-2). In accordance with the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 408 of June 30, 2021, the Uzbek-Finnish Pedagogical Institute of Samarkand State University was established. Therefore, the IRC-2 branch was later transformed into an independent Information Resource Center of the institute. IRC serves the faculty of the institute, master's and bachelor's students, scientific and technical staffs. Today there are about four thousand literatures which are included in the electronic catalog.
IRC's working hours: from 8-00 to 17-00.
In IRC:
- Scientific-methodical and information (periodical publications) department;
- Department of compilation, cataloging and systematization of information library resources;
- Department of information and library resources services (subscription and reading room);
- There are electronic information and resource departments.
IRC is creating an electronic catalog based on the IRBIS program. Today, about 4,000 titles of literature are included in the electronic catalog. In addition, there is an electronic library system for users, a service of free registration and use at https://library.uzfi.uz.
The general book fund of the Information Resource Center of the Uzbek-Finnish Pedagogical Institute of Samarkand State University is 19228 titles and 122115 copies. From: Scientific literature - 6743 titles in 20229 copies;
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Fiction - 3031 copies in 1405 titles;
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Textbooks - 39,015 copies in 3051 titles;
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Study guides - 5254 titles in 45765 copies;
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Other literature - 2815 titles in 14075 copies;
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Periodical publications (newspapers and magazines) - 8725 copies in 97 titles.
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The fund of electronic literature is 7435 titles.
IRC operates on the basis of the Library Bibliographic Classification (BBK). The literatures received in the library is classified on the basis of PBC. There is a reading room at the IRC. The general book fund of the reading room is 14726 copies in 2600 titles. The reading room is designed for 62 workplaces. Working hours of the reading room: from 8-00 to 18-00.
