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Opening hours

Opening hours during the academic year 2025/2026

In the academic year 2025/2026 the Library is open as follows:

• Monday – Sunday 7.00 am – 1.00 am,
• in a 24-hour mode during the exam sessions:
  • 12.01-27.02.2026,
  • 11.05 – 26.06.2026,
  • 24.08 – 11.09.2026.

BUW for Owls – the Library open 24/7 from 11 May to 26 June 2026

From 11 May to 26 June 2026, the Library will be open as follows:

*Opening hours of all BUW departments and offices can be found on this site below.

** If you plan to stay in the Library after 10.00 pm, please use the self-service lockers.

Please note! The library will be open on a different schedule on the following days:

• 24 May 2026 (Sunday) – the Library is open in self-service mode;
• 4 June 2026 (Corpus Christi) – closed;
• 5 June 2026 (Friday) – the Library open from 7.00 am to 12 midnight. Registration Point, Information Desk, Circulation Desk open from 11.00 am to 7.00 pm;

Opening hours of departments

 Registration (office located on the ground floor)

• Monday – Saturday 9.00 am – 8.30 pm,
• Sunday – closed

Open Stacks

• Monday – Sunday – 7.00 am – 1.00 am

Check the BUW plans.

Information Desk

• Monday – Saturday 9.00 am – 9.00 pm,
• Sunday – 3.00 pm – 8.00 pm

 Registration for trainings and one-to-one instruction and assistance

Contact us: +48 22 55 25 181, show e-mail

BUW Playroom

A reading room for parents with children is available during the Information Desk opening hours.

Reading Room, phone: +48 22 55 25 191

• Monday – Friday 9.00 am – 9.00 pm,
• Saturday 11.00 am – 6.00 pm,
• Sunday – closed

Current Periodicals Reading Room

• Monday – Sunday – 7.00 am – 1.00 am

Circulation Desk

• Monday – Friday 9.00 am – 9.00 pm,
• Saturday 11.00 am – 6.00 pm,
• Sunday – closed

Requests and Complaints

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• Monday  2.00 pm – 9.00 pm
• Tuesday – Friday 9.00 am – 4.00 pm

Interlibrary Loans

• Monday – Friday 9.00 am – 3.00 pm
• Saturday, Sunday – closed

Reprographic Office, room 204

phone 48 22 55 25 400, show e-mail

• Monday – Friday 10.00 am – 3.00 pm

University of Warsaw Library Archives, room 114

phone +48 22 55 25 261, show e-mail

• Monday – closed,
• Tuesday – 10.00 am – 3.00 pm (Attention! On this day, visits are possible until 5.00 pm, but they must be arranged at least two days in advance),
• Wednesday – 10.00 am – 3.00 pm,
• Thursday  – 10.00 am – 3.00 pm (Attention! On this day, visits are possible until 5.00 pm, but they must be arranged at least two days in advance),
• Friday – closed.

Special Collections

Print Room

Early Printed Books Department

Manuscripts Department

Music Department

Ephemera Department

Maps Department

19th Century Publications Department

Austrian Library

• Monday – Sunday – 7.00 am – 1.00 am

Registration and circulation:

• Monday  – Thursday 11.00 am – 6.00 pm (brak 2.00 pm – 3.00 pm)
• Friday 11.00 am – 4.00 pm (brak 2.00 pm – 3.00 pm)

The staffed cloakrooms

• Monday – Sunday 7.00 am – 10.00 pm

Filia BUW – Biblioteka Medyczna

Pasteura 5, 02-093 Warsaw (in the Library of the Faculty of Physics)
phone: +48 22 55 32 441, +48 22 55 32 438, show e-mail
website in Polish: https://medycyna.uw.edu.pl/biblioteka-medyczna/

Opening hours:

• Monday – Friday 9 am – 6 pm,
• Saturday, Sunday – closed.

Garden

The garden is open 7 days a week (excuding days when special events are organised) in the following hours:

• 1 – 30 April: 8.00 am – 6.00 pm
• 1 May – 30 September: 8.00 am – 8.00 pm
• 1 – 31 October: 8.00 am – 6.00 pm
• 1 November – 31 March: 8.00 am – 3.00 pm (without access to the roof)

The entrance to the garden is from Dobra Street, at the junction with Gęsta Street.

Admission is free.

Fixed closing dates of the garden due to special events:

• 23 May 2026
• 11, 12, 13 June 2026
• 3 July 2026