 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
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 4500 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 constrains past ALBA's seminars and Field Consulting (including journals) Projects
Serials
The Serials Collection consists of
- almost 250 foreign titles, both academic journals and professional publications (188 active subscriptions)
- about 20 titles of Greek periodicals
- major domestic and international finacial newspapers
- a number of select corporate annual reports
Electronic services
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 2000 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 2000 & 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.
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