Some Problems of Collecting and Utilizing Foreign Journals in Polish Libraries

Polish academic libraries suffer from a significant lack of foreign scientific journals. Funds assigned by the Ministry are insufficient. The central system of periodicals subscription also reveals many shortcomings. These problems should be solved through co-operation with the Central Academic Libraries. The Library of the Technical University of Wroclaw is one of the three Central Technical Libraries which undertake various actions in order to increase the level of serviees in the area of foreign scientific journais. Among others, a computer system, SPEC, has been elaborated to assist the subscription of foreign journals for the libraries of Poland.