About The Library

THE LOWER SILESIAN CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC AND ECONOMIC INFORMATION

It serves as an academic library and an economic centre. It gives access to the most extensive collection of books from economics on the territory of Lower Silesia. The Centre offers all interested persons full access to the library collections, electronic resources and wireless Internet, and complex scientific and economic information. With a total capacity of 31 000 m3 and a total area of 8 200 m2, the object consists of 2 connected buildings and is an integral part of a larger complex belonging to the university campus. The complex consists of four neighbouring buildings connected on the ground-level floor.

The two-storey building is located in the inner part of the campus houses conference and seminar rooms, didactic rooms (computer laboratories), librarians' offices.

The four-storey building (accessible from Wielka Street) houses four levels of the Open Access Area, where essential library services are provided.There is a lending room, a storeroom for textbooks, and an exhibition hall on the ground floor. Four floors of the Open Access Area hold about 200 000 volumes of books and periodicals, 290 seats for users ( situated close to bookshelves), 21 cabins for individual and group work and 60 computers. On the first floor is the Reading Room of the Department of Scientific Information (OIN). In the whole building, there is access to wireless Internet. Users can read books on site or borrow them (check out) utilizing self-check stations. Books can be returned (checked-in) 24 hours a day using an automatic drop book located on the outer wall of the building. Thanks to different facilities, people with disabilities have full access to our services (see Library Without Barriers). For users' convenience on the ground floor, there is a kids` corner with sanitary facilities.

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