Social and Natural Sciences Reading Room

Mon-Sat: 9.00 - 19.00

Anybody with a valid National Library card, or admission ticket, may use the Social and Natural Sciences Reading Room.

• almost ten thousand volumes of encyclopedias, handbooks and a selection of Czech and foreign-language monographs, mainly in the humanities and social and natural sciences
  • Volumes are categorized in Classified Arrangement of the Social and Natural Sciences Reading Room
  • you will find shelf marks of the Reading Room collection in OPAC (for example SSV 316.36 EXP )
    - items with a note „open shelves“ – you may pick yourselves
    - for items with notes „ask the staff - at the desk“ - please ask the librarian

• National Digital Library is made available through the system Kramerius (access on 1 work station; access to public domain works also through Wi-Fi)

• Licensed online databases (available through Wi-Fi) including 
• the National Library databases and a selection of other resources are accessible on a LAN working station

• access to
  • OPAC
    • Electronic Catalogue of the National Library of the Czech Republic
    • - subdatabase Documents available in reading rooms
  • Scanned catalogues

• use of materials from the Reading Room Reference Collection
  • for your convenience publications are mostly on open shelves
  • ask the librarian for the ones shelved at the desk or on dedicated racks
• delivery of microfilms and microfiches from National Library Collection for in-house use (there is a limit of maximum 10 items; reservation of materials for  up to 7 days only)
• delivery of materials with sound and audio-visual recordings - partially unavailable
• delivery of electronic resources (CD-ROMs, DVDs) - partially enabled
• referral and consulting services
• self-service copying
• photoduplication orders
• Rules of information technology use in Social & Natural Sciences Reading Room
• Wireless Internet Access (Wi-Fi)
• two places for persons with a grave physical disability and their assistants