Location:
Krakowskie Przedmieście 3, s.118, first floor
Opening hours
  • Monday – Friday: 9:00 – 19:00
  • Saturday: 10:00 – 17:00
  • Sunday: closed
  • Periodic changes in working hours will be given in the announcements
Order processing hours: Order processing hours:
  • Monday-Friday: 9:30, 11:30, 14:30, 16.30
  • Saturday: 9:30, 11.30, 14.30
Orders can be placed by:
    • Online Catalog (after signing up),
    • submitting a paper reverse (available at the reading room),
    • order placed in person in the Library.

For materials currently on loan – can be submitted reservations if the return period is less than 95 days.

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Student, PhD student, employee of the University of Warsaw Student, PhD student, employee of IFiS PAN / PTF / PTS Contractual accounts (with the consent of the head of the library) and other accounts (Institute of Political Sciences, Col. Civitas Col., Humanum inne)
Online registration x x
Register at the library
Registration stand at BUW - working hours
  • Collect the certificate at the Joint Libraries Reading Room.
  • Take the certificate to the registration stand at BUW - working hours
  • Collect the certificate at the Joint Libraries Reading Room.
  • Take the certificate to the registration stand at BUW - working hours
Price
  • Free account
  • Free account
  • Card opening and first year: PLN 20
  • Each subsequent year: PLN 10 / year
In accordance to Regulations of the WFiS UW, IFiS PAN and PTF Joint Librairies, the Lending Room can be used by:
  • all UW employees and students
  • employees and students of IFiS PAN and members of PTF and PTS
  • employees and students of institutions with which the library organizers have concluded relevant agreements
  • other users as part of the interlibrary loan system

Rules for borrowing books and magazines

Limit and loan period
Kind of reader Rental limit Rental period / Extension period  
students 15 volumes 30 days  
PhD students 25 volumes 90 days  
academics 25 volumes 90 days  
guest accounts, contractual, with a guarantee 15 volumes 30 days  
Important!After ordering, the book is waiting in the rental office for 10 days.
Fees
  • For keeping books, you will be charged 40 groszy per day of keeping from one item.
  • Fees are not charged for public holidays.
  • The fee is charged from the expected date of return until the date of actual return.
  • The extension of the loan period AFTER the expected return date is treated as a return and repeat loan – which also results in a penalty from the expected return date to the date of extension.

The fee can be paid:
  • in person – payment in cash or credit/debit card,
  • electronically, to the account 86 1160 2202 0000 0000 6084 9393. The title of the transfer should include “library penalties – name, surname, reader card number”. After paying the fee, please send the confirmation of the transfer to the address wypozyczalnia.wfis@uw.edu.pl