Book Storage and Free Access Department

General information

The Book Storage and Free Access Department is responsible for maintaining the Wroclaw University Library’s monographs and periodicals published after 1800 and the book collection of the Silesian and Lusatian collections (collections of the former Silesian-Lusatian Cabinet). The collections are universal in scope and represent all fields of knowledge, with a particular focus on specialization in silesiacs and lusatics prints, and after World War II – also polonica.

Rules and conditions of usage of the collections are determined in the Rules of Collection Circulation in the Wroclaw University Library.

Adress

Wrocław University Library
Book Storage and Conservation Department
Fryderyka Joliot-Curie 12 St.
50-383 Wrocław
phone: +48 71 375 75 27, +48 71 375 76 22, +48 71 375 75 19
e-mail: opz.bu[w]uwr.edu.pl (opz[dot]bu[at]uwr[dot]edu[dot]pl)

Department sections

• Section for Collections' Storage
• Section for Free Access

Department duties

Main duties of the Book Storage and Free Access Department include taking care of general collections and the Silesian-Lusatian collections:

• handling the process of ordering/reservation/circulation of the library materials from the general collections and the Silesian-Lusatian Collection in the Local Lending Department and in the Circulation Department’s reading rooms as well as in the Free Access areas,

• registering movement of collections,

• keeping registers,

• registering circulation of collections,

• storage works,

• protection of collections,

• cooperation with other departments of the University Library,

• updating data in the VIRTUA computer system and in the Doublet Exchange Platform database

• preparing collections for circulation,

• preparing and realizing selection process of the book collection,

• controlling and updating correctness of placement and storage of collections,

• realizing information services,

• supporting the process of ordering/reservation and making available Individual Work Cabins and Group Work Rooms in the FA1 and FA2 in the Free Access areas,

• handling internal and external trainings and apprenticeships in the scope of performed tasks and possessed permissions,

• disinfection collections in fumigation chamber.

Employees