New E-library Opens

An e-library was newly built at Pyongyang University of Railways in September last year. It is housed in a four-storeyed building with a total floor space of more than 3 000 square metres, where they can keep over 50 000 books. There are e-reading rooms with a total of over 370 seats, a distance-learning hall, an auditorium, a foreign language lab—all equipped with modern facilities and fittings.

The database of the e-library stores books of social and natural sciences, magazines, theses, foreign sci-tech books as well as technical documents in the sector of railway transport. It also has all necessary materials—multimedia including sci-tech documentaries and editions as well as programs.

The university and e-library are connected by a network to provide bulky documents promptly and correctly at any time, giving a substantial help for education and scientific research as well as students’ work.

The e-library also has a convenient distribution of as many as 900 modern electronic facilities of over 30 kinds, so everyone can attend IT instruction. As the distance-learning network is available, the workers in factories and enterprises can attend lectures of several subjects in real time as they want.

In addition, over 1 000 square metres of area is grassed over to improve the educational environment.

All the administrators and teaching staff are now exerting themselves to make the most of the e-library in developing the students’ intellectual potentialities as much as possible and putting the educational content on a practical, comprehensive and modern basis so as to help students obtain and use advanced and useful knowledge as soon as possible.