Opening hours
From October to June the Library operates during the following hours:
- Monday – Friday 8-22
- Saturday 9-21
- Sunday 15-20 (the Circulation Desk and the Closed Stacks are closed)
In July and August and before the finals as well as on class-free days the opening hours are changed.
Opening hours of each department
Open Stacks
Monday – Friday 8-22
Saturday 9-21
Sunday 15-20
Information Desk
Monday – Friday 8-22
Saturday 9-21
Sunday 15-20
Registration for trainings and one-to-one instruction and assistance
Contact us: +48 22 55 25 181, e-mail: askalibrary.buw@uw.edu.pl
Visit us: Room 141 (next to Information Desk, level 1)
Monday – Friday 9-15
Hours of Subject Librarians
P – language, literature
Contact: Alina Cywińska, e-mail: informator.dziedzinowy@uw.edu.pl, phone +48 22 55 25 381
Monday – Thusday 11-13
Friday 15-17
B, L – psychology, philosophy, religion, education
Contact: The Subject Librarian is unavailable, please contact the main Information Desk.
e-mail: informacja.buw@uw.edu.pl, phone +48 22 55 25 178, +48 22 55 25 179
AM C D-F GN700-875 – history
Contact: Lilianna Nalewajska, e-mail: informator.dziedzinowy@uw.edu.pl, phone +48 22 55 25 160
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 11-13
Wednesday 13-15
GF Q R-V – geography, mathematical, natural and applied sciences
Contact: Maja Bogajczyk , e-mail: informator.dziedzinowy@uw.edu.pl, phone +48 22 55 25 163
Monday – Wednesday, Friday 10-12
Thursday 16-18
K, J – law, political science
Contact: Dorota Bocian, e-mail: informator.dziedzinowy@uw.edu.pl phone +48 22 55 25 202
Monday 18-20
Tuesday 16-18
Wednesday – Friday 11-13
H GN1-673 GR-GV – social science, anthropology
Contact: Anna Białanowicz, e-mail: informator.dziedzinowy@uw.edu.pl, phone +48 22 55-25-193
Monday 18-20
Tuesday 14-16
Wednesday – Friday 10-12
A, Z – general works, library science
Contact: Anna Gimlewicz, e-mail: informator.dziedzinowy@uw.edu.pl, phone +48 22 55 25 189
Monday – Friday 9- 11
M, N – music, architecture, fine arts
Contact: Magdalena Fedorczyk-Falis, e-mail: informator.dziedzinowy@uw.edu.pl, phone +48 22 55 25 196
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 11-13
Wednesday 14-16
Main Reading Room
Monday – Friday 9-22
Saturday 9-21
Sunday 15-20 (the Closed Stacks are closed)
Current Periodicals Reading Room
Monday – Friday 8-22
Saturday 9-21
Sunday 15-20
19th Century Publications Reading Room
Monday – Friday 9-19
Circulation Desk
Monday – Friday 9-22
Saturday 9-21
Sunday – closed
Registration
Monday – Friday 9-21
Saturday 9-20
Sunday – closed
Requests and Complaints
Monday – Friday 9-20 (breaks: 11.30-12, 16-16.30)
Interlibrary Loans
Monday – Thursday 9-15
Friday 11-18
Reprographic Office, room 204
phone 48 22 55 25 400, e-mail: reprobuw@uw.edu.pl
Monday – Friday 10-15
University of Warsaw Library Archives, room 114
phone 48 22 55 25 261, e-mail: m.swiezewski@uw.edu.pl
Tuesday, Thursday 10-14
Print Room
Tuesday, Thursday 9-18
Early Printed Books Department
Monday – Friday 9-19
Manuscripts Department
Tuesday 9-18
Wednesday-Friday 9-15
Music Department
Monday, Thursday 9-19
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 9-15
Ephemera Department
Tuesday 9-18
Wednesday – Friday 9-15
Maps Department
Tuesday – Friday 10-15
Austrian Library
Monday – Friday 8-22
Saturday 9-21
Sunday 15-20
Registration and circulation:
Monday 13-19
Tuesday – Friday 11-17
Opening hours during summer holidays
From 1st July to 31st August 2018 the Library will be open:
- Monday – Tuesday 14-21
- Wednesday – Friday 9-16
- Saturday, Sunday – closed
Opening hours of each department from 1st July to 31st August 2018
Information Desk, Circulation Desk, Main Reading Room, Current Periodicals Reading Room, Open Stacks
- Monday – Tuesday 14-21
- Wednesday – Friday 9-16
- Saturday, Sunday – closed
Registration
phone: 48 22 55 25 382
- Monday – Tuesday 14-20
- Wednesday – Friday 9-15
- Saturday, Sunday – closed
Registration for trainings and one-to-one instruction and assistance
Phone: 48 22 55 25 181, e-mail: askalibrary.buw@uw.edu.pl, visit us: Room 141 (next to Information Desk, level 1)
Requests and Complaints
Phone: 48 22 55 25 182, 55 25 384, e-mail: wypoz.buw@uw.edu.pl
- Monday – Tuesday 14-20
- Wednesday – Friday 9-16
- Saturday, Sunday – closed
Interlibrary Loans
Phone: 48 22 55 25 209, e-mail: wyp.buw@uw.edu.pl
- Monday – Tuesday 14-21
- Wednesday – Friday 9-15
- Saturday, Sunday – closed
Reprographic Office
Room 204, phone 48 22 55 25 400, e-mail: reprobuw@uw.edu.pl
- Monday – Tuesday 14-15
- Wednesday – Friday 10-15
- Saturday, Sunday – closed
University of Warsaw Library Archives
Room 114, phone: 48 22 55 25 261, e-mail: m.swiezewski@uw.edu.pl
- Wednesday, Thursday 9-13
19th Century Publications Reading Room
Phone: 48 22 55 25 025, e-mail: gabxix.buw@uw.edu.pl
- Monday – Tuesday 14-19
- Wednesday – Friday 9-16
- Saturday, Sunday – closed
Attention! From 1st to 31st August – closed.
Print Room
Phone: 48 22 55 25 830, e-mail: gabryc.buw@uw.edu.pl
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday: closed
- Tuesday 14-18
- Thursday 9-15
- Saturday, Sunday – closed
Attention! From 1st to 31st August – closed.
Early Printed Books Department
Phone: 48 22 55 25 772, 55 25 767, e-mail: stdruk.buw@uw.edu.pl
- Monday – Tuesday 14-19
- Wednesday – Friday 9-15
- Saturday, Sunday – closed
Attention! From 1st to 31st August – closed.
Manuscripts Department
Phone: 48 22 55 25 900, 55 25 902, e-mail: rps.buw@uw.edu.pl
- Monday – Tuesday – closed
- Wednesday – Friday 9-15
- Saturday, Sunday – closed
Attention! From 1st to 31st August – closed.
Music Department
Phone: 48 22 55 25 740, e-mail: muz.buw@uw.edu.pl
- Monday – Tuesday 14-19
- Wednesday – Friday 9-15
- Saturday, Sunday – closed
Attention! From 1st to 31st August – closed.
Ephemera Department
Phone: 48 22 55 25 720, 55 25 722, e-mail: dzs.buw@uw.edu.pl
- Monday – closed
- Tuesday 14-18
- Wednesday – Friday 9-15
- Saturday, Sunday – closed
Attention! From 1st to 31st August – closed.
Maps Department
Phone: 48 22 55 25 885, e-mail: gabkart.buw@uw.edu.pl
- Monday – Tuesday – closed
- Wednesday – Friday 10-15
- Saturday, Sunday – closed
Attention! From 1st to 31st August – closed.
Austrian Library
Phone: 48 22 55 25 211, e-mail: biblioteka-austriacka.buw@uw.edu.pl
- Monday – Tuesday 14-21
- Wednesday – Friday 9-16
- Saturday, Sunday – closed
Registration and circulation:
- Monday – Tuesday 14-20
- Wednesday – Friday 10-16
- Saturday, Sunday – closed
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 2018:
- January 1st (Monday) – New Year
- January 6th (Saturday) – Epiphany
- April 1st (Sunday) – Easter
- April 2nd (Monday) – Easter Monday
- May 1st (Tuesday) – Labour Day
- May 3rd (Thursday) – May 3rd Constitution Day
- May 20th (Sunday) – Pentecost
- May 31st (Thursday) – Corpus Christi Day
- August 15th (Wednesday) – Assumption of Mary
- November 1st (Thursday) – All Saints’ Day
- November 11th (Sunday) – Independence Day
- December 24th (Monday) – Christmas Eve
- December 25th (Tuesday) – Christmas
- December 26th (Wednesday) – Christmas (second day)
- December 31 st (Monday)
- 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.