The City and University Library in Osijek (GISKO) was founded on February 8, 1949 as a public library, continuing the tradition of public libraries and reading rooms in the city of Osijek from the mid-19th to the first half of the 20th century. In 1975, it expands its activities with the founding of the University of Osijek and takes over functions and tasks of the central university library, by changing its name into the City and University Library in Osijek. In 1986, its status granted in 1975 was confirmed as a main library for all public and school libraries of the municipality of Osijek and the region of Slavonia and Baranja, and for higher education and special libraries of the University of Osijek and the region of Slavonia and Baranja.

The library has a dual function: it serves as a public/city library and university/scientific library and develops into a general scientific multi-purpose library.

GISKO collects, preserves and provides access to information sources on different media (printed materials: books, magazines, newspapers, etc., AV materials, electronic media, etc.). The information sources are organized into free-access collections (reference library, a collection of scientific and professional literature in the Croatian and foreign languages, a collection of materials belonging to the Austrian Reading Room, a collection of periodicals, a collection of fiction) and special collections: a collection of Deposit copies of the Republic of Croatia, a collection of master’s theses and doctoral dissertations of the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, BDI (Librarianship-Documentation-Information) collection, local collection, memorial collection. It provides loan service and use of materials for its users in the reading room, information and referral services, work on computers and access to online databases and other electronic resources, interlibrary loan services, reprographic services and education services users.

The materials database and services are intended for the broadest range of actual and potential customers – the citizens of Osijek and Osijek-Baranja County and the students, professors, scientific, technical and other employees of the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek.

As the central university library, GISKO supports study programs for all three levels of university studies (undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate studies), scientific work at the University, but also the wider community and takes care of the establishment and functioning of the library information activities at the University.

The Student Center in Osijek as constituent unit of the University of Osijek takes care of student standard of life through nutrition, accommodation, occasional and part-time employment, and the cultural and athletic life of students. The subsidized nutrition of students is organized in two large student self-service restaurants in Osijek and a number of smaller canteens with fast and simple services that are located at some faculties in Osijek. The existing capacities (about 6,000 meals daily), which are offered in restaurants of Student Center in Osijek meet the current needs of students.

Student accommodation is organized in adequate conditions in the typical dorm room, rooms for the disabled and apartments for visiting professors. In cooperation with the Student Center in Osijek, there are various sports and other activities organized for students in Đakovo.

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Establishment of the Centre for the improvement and quality assurance of the Josip Juraj Strossmayer (abbreviated: Center for Quality) in January 2014, a result of the development of a systematic approach to quality higher education at the University lasts from 2006. The insurance system and improving the quality of the University is based on the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG) and is structured in accordance with the requirements of ISO 9001 for the management of teaching, scientific research and business processes.

Tera Tehnopolis Ltd. is a member of the University of Osijek specialized in development of knowledge-based economy by implementing significantly improved technologies. Tera Tehnopolis was established in 2002 as a joint-venture of the University of Osijek, the City of Osijek and the Osijek-Baranja County to intensify commercialization of publicly funded research conducted at the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek; to achieve balanced regional development and retain entrepreneurial and skilled labor force in the region.