LIBRARY PROJECTS FINANCED FROM NON-UNIVERSITY FUNDS AS A FORM OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNICAL ACADEMIC LIBRARIES IN POLAND

Abstract

This article analyzes the possibilities of financing from non-university resources of library projects of technical universities in Poland in the financial perspective of the European Union for the years 2014-2020. The library projects serve to implement the strategy of libraries in the most important areas of their development as defined by Polish technical universities in strategic, long-term programme documents. The system supporting the implementation of development strategies and projects in academic libraries consists of four public sector pillars. The institutions at national and regional level, creating this system, offer, through specific area programmes, a high level of support ranging from 80% to 100% of eligible costs. Individual programmes, financed from European funds and from the state budget, enable the implementation of project development strategies of repository and digitalization character, promotion and dissemination and increasing innovative teaching and digital competences. The inclusion in the development strategies of Polish scientific libraries of the need to implement projects in the most important areas of their activity should ensure external sources of financing for such projects from the state budget for science, the European Social Fund and the European Regional Development Fund in the next EU financial perspective.