National Reading Week at the KPI Library

KPI Library invites everyone to join the events dedicated to the National Reading Week (13-19 of December).

The National Reading Week is initiated by the Ukrainian Book Institute. This is a nationwide action aimed to attract new audiences to reading, promoting the book as a source of thinking development and gaining new knowledge.

14 of December, 18:30, room 1.2. – «The Nordic phenomenon of Bildung: exploring it together».
Registration.

15 of December, 18:00, room 6.2. – «Fantasy genre» – lecture held within the framework of «Fantastic course» project.
Registration.

16 of December, 18:00 – Online-reading on the Zoom platform, Neil Gaiman’s «Why our future depends on reading».
Registration.

17 of December

14:00 – Decorating the Christmas-tree in the Library hall. «Secret book» event.

18:30, 6 floor – «To kill a mocking-bird» movie screening (director Robert Mulligan).

Please pay attention that all the offline events will take place in compliance with anti-epidemic measures.

To visit the Library you should show one of the documents:

• COVID-19 vaccination certificate;
• Negative PCR test or rapid test to determine the antigen with a validity of 72 hours;
• Document on recovery from coronavirus infection.

#GenerousTuesday at the KPI Library

Today, on the All-Ukrainian Day of Good Deeds, the KPI Library received book gifts from friends and partners – 20 titles, 39 items! Such a gift was made to us as a part of a book donation campaign.

We are grateful for their good deeds to the publishing houses ‘Sidkon’ and Magnolia’, Oksana Brui, Mykhailo Zhurovskyi, Tetiana Zhestkova, Olena Levchuk, Nataliia Manzhulo, Eleonora Popovych, Lilia Miziurko. We are sure that your gifts will find their readers!

And it is good that good deeds can be done every day. This is proved by the ongoing project of the library #book_for_student, which collects hundreds of books on various topics from caring people, ambassadors of charity culture during the year. We love and appreciate all our donors and readers!

EBSCOhost – information search algorithm

By the end of 2021, access to the thematic databases and e-books of the Academic Collection of the EBSCO platform, the largest aggregator of scientific resources of the world’s leading publishers, is open. The publications cover a wide range of academic topics, namely: business, humanities, medicine, ecology, etc.

Fill the form to get a login and password.

Watch an informational video, which presents information about the algorithm for searching scientific information and the possibility of using the EBSCOhost platform.

The President of the Ukrainian Library Association was elected

Oksana Brui, the Director of the KPI Library, was elected the President of the Ukrainian Library Association today.

For the second time Oksana Brui becomes the head of the ULA, an organization that unites everyone interested in the library development.

Congratulations!

How the researches are checked for plagiarism at the Igor Sikorsky KPI

The Unicheck blog features an interview with Evgeniia Kulyk, assistant director for education and research information support at the KPI Library.

We invite you to read the article in which you will learn:

• Why does KPI use match identification system? 
• Which academic texts must be checked for signs of plagiarism? 
• How is the process of checking academic texts organized? 
• Is there «acceptable percentage» of plagiarism in the texts? 
• What happens to academic texts after the defense?

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