Biblioteki Ruhr-Universität w Bochum
The Libraries of the Ruhr-Universität in Bochum

Summary/Abstract: This article presents an outline of the history, the structure and the functioning of the Ruhr-Universität in Bochum (RUB) in Germany with a special focus on the library complex. The division of the university libraries, the organisation of their work, the criteria of availability of various types of documents and the standards of cataloguing, particularly those concerning subject processing, have also been described in this article. The author visited the libraries of the Ruhr-Universität in Bochum in May 2011 as part of a direct staff exchange organised by the Jagiellonian Library for several years. She graduated in Turkish language and literature and since January 2008 has worked in the Subject Processing Department of the Jagiellonian Library.

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