Opening hours
Opening hours
In September the Library is open:
| Monday – Saturday | 9 am – 9 pm (partly in self-service mode) |
| Sunday | 3 pm – 8 pm |
Self-service mode hours: Monday – Tuesday between 9 am and 2 pm, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday between 4 pm and 9 pm, Saturday between 3 pm and 9 pm (the Information Desk is open until 4 pm).
In the self-service mode:
- Only persons with a valid library card are allowed to use the library.
- Registration and Information (ground floor), Information Desk, Main Reading Room and Circulation Desk are closed.
- A library account cannot be set up or renewed.
- Keys to study booths cannot be collected.
- Books can be checked out and renewed only in SelfCheck kiosks.
- Payment of charged fines can be done only in SelfCheck kiosks.
- Books can be returned in the return box and SelfCheck kiosks.
- Readers are free to use the Open Stacks area, the wireless network (BUW.Hotspot) and electronic resources.
More information in News.
Garden
Opening hours:
8 am – 8 pm – from May 1st – until September 30th
8 am – 6 pm – April and October
8 am – 3 pm – from November 1st – March 31st – only the Lower Garden
Opening hours of departments
Open Stacks
- Monday – Saturday 9 am – 9 pm (partly in self-service mode)
- Sunday 3 pm – 8 pm
Information Desk
- Monday – Tuesday 2 pm – 9 pm
- Wednesday – Saturday 9 am – 4 pm
- Sunday 3 pm – 8 pm
Registration for trainings and one-to-one instruction and assistance
Contact us: +48 22 55 25 181, e-mail: askalibrary.buw@uw.edu.pl or informator.dziedzinowy@uw.edu.pl
Reading Room
- Monday – Tuesday 2 pm – 9 pm
- Wednesday – Friday 9 am – 4 pm
- Saturday 9 am – 3 pm
Current Periodicals Reading Room
- Monday – Saturday 9 am – 9 pm
- Sunday 3 pm – 8 pm
Circulation Desk
- Monday – Tuesday 2 pm – 9 pm
- Wednesday – Friday 9 am – 4 pm
- Saturday 9 am – 3 pm
Registration (office located on the ground floor)
- Monday – Tuesday 2 pm – 8 pm
- Wednesday – Saturday 9 am – 3 pm
Requests and Complaints
e-mail: reklamacje.buw@uw.edu.pl
Interlibrary Loans
- Monday – Tuesday 2 pm – 9 pm
- Wednesday – Friday 9 am – 4 pm
Reprographic Office, room 204
phone 48 22 55 25 400, e-mail: reprobuw@uw.edu.pl
Monday – Friday 10 am – 3 pm
University of Warsaw Library Archives, room 114
phone 48 22 55 25 261, e-mail: m.swiezewski@uw.edu.pl
Tuesday, Thursday 10 am – 2 pm
Print Room
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday – closed
- Tuesday 2 pm – 6 pm
- Thursday 9 am – 4 pm
Early Printed Books Department
- Monday 2 pm – 7 pm
- Tuesday – closed
- Wednesday 9 am – 3 pm
- Thursday 12 – 4 pm
- Friday 9 am – 3 pm
Manuscripts Department
- Monday 2 pm – 7 pm
- Tuesday – closed
- Wednesday – Thursday 9 am – 3 pm
- Friday – closed
Music Department
- Monday 2 pm – 7 pm
- Tuesday, Thursday – closed
- Wednesday, Friday 9 am – 3 pm
Ephemera Department
- Monday – 2 pm – 4 pm
- Tuesday 2 pm – 6 pm
- Wednesday – Friday 9 am – 4 pm
Maps Department
- Monday, Friday – closed
- Tuesday 2 pm – 5 pm
- Wednesday, Thursday 10 am – 3 pm
Austrian Library
- Monday – Saturday 9 am – 9 pm
- Sunday 3 pm – 8 pm
Registration and circulation:
- Monday, Tuesday 2 pm – 7 pm
- Wednesday – Friday 11 am – 4 pm
Fixed closing times of BUW
Public and church holidays and other days announced by the Rector of the University of Warsaw and the Director of BUW in 2021:
- January 1st (Friday) – New Year
- January 6th (Wednesday) – Epiphany
- April 4-5th (Sunday – Monday) – Easter
- May 1st (Saturday) – Labour Day
- May 3rd (Monday) – May 3rd Constitution Day
- May 23rd (Sunday) – Pentecost
- June 3rd (Thursday) – Corpus Christi Day
- August 15th (Sunday) – Assumption of Mary
- November 1st (Monday) – All Saints’ Day
- November 11th (Thursday) – Independence Day
- December 25th (Saturday) – Christmas
- December 26th (Sunday) – Christmas (second day)
- and every Saturday and Sunday in July & August.
We will inform you in advance about any additional days of the Library closures on BUW website.