About Bogomolets National Medical University
Recently, I was invited to visit Bogomolets National Medicine University in Kyiv. My main purpose was to visit the research library. Stanislav Ustinov (my tour guide) has plans to make it a modern library. Some readers may be surprised that a national medical school does not have a modern library. However, this is Kyiv in Ukraine. The country has been under Soviet dominance for many years. Many public universities do not have the funds to make necessary improvements. Bogomolets National Medical University started construction of a twenty-four-story building to modernize its university a few years ago. However, funds ran out and construction was stopped in 2011. Bogomolets' library is small and outdated. The stacks are restricted to students only. They must use an outdated card catalog system to search for books. They hand in their request when they find the title they are looking for and a librarian will retrieve it. The collection is also small for a medical university, and man...