Information for users with special needs

The Wroclaw University Library - a friendly place for users with special needs (12 Joliot-Curie St., Wrocław)

Parking space:
Separated and marked parking places for people with special needs are located in front of the Library building near the employee entrance, which can also be used by people with special needs, moving on crutches or on wheelchairs. Security personnel is available to help you reach a comfortable elevator that will take you to Level 0, which you can be used to reach the selected circulation department's agenda via the next lift route.

Amenities in the Library building:
Spacious library lobbies, doors without thresholds and comfortable elevators marked in the Braille alphabet make movement in the building easier for people with special needs, on wheelchairs and visually impaired. At the Library's Information Point, at level 0, the librarian will help and answer all your questions.
The toilets have also been adapted for use by people with special needs, are marked in Braille alphabet and are on every level. In the circulation departments (reading rooms, informatory, free access to the collections area) workstations with raised table tops have been prepared and wide spaces between shelves have been provided, which facilitate access to the person on the wheelchair.

Use of collections – facilities:
Users with users with special needs in the circulation departments (Main Reading Room, Current and Archive Periodicals Reading Room, Silesian Collection Reading Room, Special Collections' Reading Room and Informatory) have access to computer workstations adapted for use by people with visual impairments (magnifying software displayed on the monitor, a lector reading selected text, keyboard with enlarged characters and Braille one) as well as stationary and portable Explore 5 electronic magnifiers with display. In the Informatory and Main Reading Room, users can use a device for reading printed texts with a synthetic voice (Auto-Lektor). Selected computer workstations are equipped with a specialized trackball computer mouse.
Students of the University of Wrocław special needs have the option to use licensed electronic resources outside the UoW network (via a proxy server)

Lending of collections:
Users with special needs have the right to appoint a representative who will lend and prolonge library materials on their behalf (in accordance with the Rules of Collection Circulation in the Wroclaw University Library, §36.1). Users with special needs also have the right to borrow a larger number of publications and for a longer time (§43.1-3 of the Rules of Collection Circulation in the Wroclaw University Library).