ALBA is located in the beautiful suburb of Vouliagmeni, about 30 kilometers southeast of the center of Athens. The School's facilities, housed in a luxury building complex, total 1,880 square meters. Primary facilities include:
- Amphitheatres
- Classrooms
- Group-study rooms
- Library with reading room
- Computer laboratory
- Student lounge
- Faculty offices
- Administration offices
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The Library
The ALBA Library is an academic Library, covering the subject fields of management and related sciences. The Library's aim is to support all members of the ALBA community, i.e. students, faculty and alumni. Both students and faculty have free access to the entire Library's collection and its electronic services. Although ALBA Alumni may not use the Library's lending services, they are welcome to use the Library for reference purposes. External users requiring occassional access may use the Library for reference purposes only.
The Collection
Books
The library has about 6500 titles available for loan, covering various fields of management, such as accounting, competitive strategy, management, marketing, ethics, finance, management information systems, human resources management, organizational behavior, total quality management, etc.
A separate section of reference books contains directories, handbooks, manuals, guides, general and terminology directories, etc. It also contains past ALBA's seminars and Field Consulting Projects
Serials
The Serials Collection consists of
- almost 250 foreign titles, both academic journals and professional publications (205 active subscriptions)
- about 15 titles of Greek periodicals
- major domestic and international financial newspapers
Electronic services
- OPAC(On-line Public Access Catalogue) through the www
- Business Source Complete (EBSCO)
- Datastream
- IBES Global Aggregates History
- Econlit FullText
- Swetswise
- ScienceDirect Web Editions
- Hellastat
- Finance Statistics & Fundamental Analysis (EFFECT)
- Wiley Interscience: Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting
- Clarksons SIN 2005
- Lloyd's List on line
- Financial Times on Line
- Naftemporiki premium
- ICAP: The Greek Finacial Directory and Consolidated balance sheets on line
- National Network of Scientific and Technological Libraries in Hellas.
This service provides instant on-line access to the collection of journals of each and every scientific and technological Library in Hellas. It also offers on-line document ordering services for any article of any journal possessed by any Library of the network
- British Library Document Delivery Services (BLDDS)
This Library offers a document delivery service, supplying copies of materials held in the British Library
The Computer Center
ALBA is equipped with state-of-the-art computer services, supporting both educational and administration needs.
The local area network consists of approximately 130 PCs running under Windows VISTA operating system and configured with the latest software versions. More than half are available to the students, at study rooms, the Computer Laboratory and the Library, as well as in the classrooms and amphitheaters, to be used during lectures and case study/projects presentations. Networked high speed laser and deskjet printers are also available.
The "heart" of the network is based on Windows 2003 servers. Internet access is achieved via a 2 Mb HellasCom line.
Electronic Services are offered at the Library for books and periodicals management, as well as for information retrieval systems from databases and libraries worldwide.
Students have free 24-hour access to the network and the WWW, as well as their own e-mail account.
A broad array of audio-visual equipment is also available, from simple overhead projectors to slides and high-resolution liquid crystal display projectors.