Library
The Institute library was founded in 1999.
The library is available for academic staff, students, pupils, Institute and school staff, and also other readers who have reader’s pass.
Books are available in the reading-room, where materials can be photocopied. Books can be borrowed for a certain time if they are not the only copies.
Resources
The library fonds have been formed in accordance with the study programmes in the following directions: economics, finance, business management, business law, information computer technologies, industry of hospitality, humanitarian sciences, culture management, and course books on the languages studied at the Institute. School textbooks are also available. Materials are available in Latvian, English, Russian, and other languages.
The academic staff of the Institute is actively writing and publishing the books, which are of invaluable help in the studies. The publications of the academic staff of the Institute can be bought or borrowed in the library.
Numerous lectures, presentations, and methodical recommendations elaborated by the Institute academic staff can be provided in electronic ways.
In the reading-room of the library students have free access to 16 units of computers and the Internet.
There are several permanent and constantly renovated exhibitions:
- "New publications",
- "The ISMA publications",
- "Tourism - prospects",
- for professional masters and etc.
EBSCO — this multi-disciplinary database provides full texts for different journals, publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
Staff
Friendly members of the staff will respond to your information inquiries.
Kondratova Galina
Education – higher library education, Institute of Culture, Moscow
Working experience – Director of scientific-technical library of RAU, 1977-1999
Orehova Vera
Anastasia Kashtalianova
Education: Second-year student at ISMA. She is studying Entrepreneurship in the Field of Tourism.
Contact information
Address: 1-V (first floor) 116, Lomonosova str., Riga
Ph.: (+371) 67089877
E-mail: library@isma.lv
Working hours of the library and reading-room:
Monday | 10:00-17:30 |
Tuesday | 10:00-19:30 |
Wednesday | 10:00-17:30 |
Thursday | 10:00-19:30 |
Friday | 10:00-16:30 |
Saturday | 10:00-16:00 |


