The Library of JAMK University of Applied Sciences is a unit consisting of several service points. The Library guarantees high-quality learning, research and development facilities for JAMK University of Applied Sciences. The Library provides the students with their information seeking education in accordance with their curricula. The aim is that the students are equipped with excellent information retrieval skills in view of their future careers. In the regional library network, JAMK’s Library is responsible for providing professionally oriented materials to respond to the needs of local companies and organisations. The JAMK University of Applied Sciences Library is also open to the general public.
The Library is developed as a unit consisting of several service points that share the staff, library database, service and library policy, and other practices. Library materials are purchased observing the principles of overall economy and distributed to the service points in such a way that they complement each other.
The Library provides freer, open services to the JAMK personnel and students than to outside users of the Library. Customer feedback plays an important role in the development of the Library. The Library participates in the customer satisfaction surveys and in internal surveys targeted to JAMK’s personnel and students. Customers can also give feedback by using an electronic form, by telephone, or by visiting the Library.
The library personnel are obliged to treat all customer information as confidential.
We speak to the customers in an easily understandable way, avoiding library jargon. A service situation that has started is completed without unnecessary interruptions.
When a customer arrives at the counter, he/she is given immediate attention. Any other work can wait. A customer who is present takes preference over a telephone that rings. The service is friendly, careful and effective. We help our customers find the best possible, individual solutions, however, taking the available resources into consideration.
The customers are given guidance in the use of databases and other library services, and they are also encouraged to learn how to use the library facilities independently and to participate in the training sessions that the Library organises. We actively inform the customers of the services we provide. The customers are effectively informed of any changes in the opening hours or other activities. We use the customer feedback to develop and improve our services and anticipate future changes.
The key customers of the JAMK University of Applied Sciences Library consist of JAMK students, teachers and other personnel, and the local companies and organisations. The local upper secondary education students and personnel are served in accordance with separate agreements. The service points of JAMK’s library are also open to the general public.
In addition to the services open to the general public, in accordance with separate agreements.
The service policy is valid as of 1st April 2008. Updated on 27 January 2017.