for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), and its new name is Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas/Biomedical Research Institute. BRI has three research directions: Molecular Medicine, Biomedical Technology, and Molecular Epidemiology. In order to fulfill the research aims the institute has established collaborations with the Medical School of the University of Ioannina, as well as with other departments of the university, the University Hospital, and the other institutes of FORTH. Institute of Transportation & Telecommunications The University of Ioannina has allied with the regional local authorities and industrial partners to establish an Institute of Transportation & Telecommunication in Igoumenitsa. The institute's expertise in transportation and telecommunication will be concentrated on research, consultancy, and regional development. University Library and Information Centre The University of Ioannina has the largest, in terms of effective surface area (14,500 sq. m. divided into six storeys), single library in Greece, which has been named the University of Ioannina Library and Information Centre. The equipment of the library includes 31 workstations, 504 reading stations, a 120-seat auditorium, an Art Gallery Exhibition Room, a Seminar Room with a seating capacity of 20 people, and 12 carrels. Users can check availability on the online library catalogue (OPAC) and use photocopying and reservation services. The professionally qualified librarians run training sessions on information handling techniques and assist the users with their inquiries. Other library services include book loans from its own collection or from other libraries in Greece (Interlibrary Loan), reading rooms, access to international information sources via the Internet, access to digitised material of the university, access electronic catalogue databases, access Greek and foreign library catalogues, Library users include all members of the academic community of the university and the public. The library covers the fields of: Medicine, Chemistry, Physics, Biological Applications and Technologies, Materials Science and Engineering, Economics, Computer Science, Plastic Arts and Art Sciences, Primary and Pre-School Education, Philosophy, Education, and Psychology. The Student Collection has multiple copies of books related to the course lectures delivered in all departments. The library collection has scientific books, textbooks, and journals, newspapers, digital and audiovisual material, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and indexes, books that can be borrowed by students, a collection in Braille, and equipment that can be used by visually impaired people, scientific journals and databases of the Hellenic Academic Libraries Link (HEALLINK), which can be accessed via the Internet, digitised documents (journal articles, books, etc.) which are produced by the librarians. Student