Library and reading room work schedule
Monday: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Tuesday: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Wednesday: 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
Thursday: 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
Weekends of part-time studies:
Saturday: 8:00 am – 4:00 pm
Sunday: 8:00 am – 12:00 pm
Weekends of postgraduate studies:
Saturday: 8:00 am – 12:00 pm
Library service by e-mail and phone:
During the duty hours of the library and library reading room and:
Friday: 8:30 am-3:30 pm
Holiday Season – Changes in the library schedule
Changes to the library schedule:
December 17: 9:00-13:00 and 15:00-17:00
December 18-19: 9:00-16:00 (Attention! Last stationary shifts this year)
December 20-22 and 30 – remote service only:
December 20: 9:00-15:00
December 21: 8:00-16:00
December 22: 8:00-12:00
December 30: 9:00-15:00
Library and reading room closed, no remote service:
From December 23 to 29 (December 30 remote service only), from December 31 to January 6 and January 10
At Collegium Civitas Reading Hall and Library (the Palace of Culture and Science, XI floor, room 1106) the students have access to course books and obligatory readings for classes, seminars and exams. The university is subscribed to daily press as well as to multiple magazines in the Polish and English languages.
On-line catalogue of Library resources is available at:
https://civitas.lib.mol.pl/
For when – It enables easy and quick booking of visits to the library, e.g. in order to collect books reserved in the online catalog.
Collegium Civitas Library Rules and Regulations
Access to E-books – Ibuk Libra
In 2021, we provide readers with access to a special collection of e-books on the Libra Ibuk portal. Access will be possible without logging in from our university’s network and after logging in from readers’ home computers. In order to obtain an access pin code, please contact the library. Instructions available at: https://libra.ibuk.pl/#faq
On this occasion, we also invite you to use the Open Textbook Library platform, which offers English-language academic textbooks in an open license https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks
Contact:
Room 1106
library@civitas.edu.pl
Head of Library
Ms. Natalia Płońska
tel. +48 789 009 550
natalia.plonska@civitas.edu.pl
Junior librarian
Ms. Barbara Szustkiewicz
tel. +48 504 798 719
barbara.szustkiewicz@civitas.edu.pl
Collegium Civitas students are welcome to use the resources of:
- The Institute of Philosophy and Sociology Polish Academy of Sciences (also to take home)
- Central Library Of the Army
- Literature House Foundation and the Houses Of Creative Work resources
- Warsaw University Reading Hall
- National Library Reading Hall
- International Relations students of the specialization ”European Union” have access to resources of the College of Europe Library in Natolin.
- Digital National Library POLONA
If you are interested in getting access to EBSCO and JSTOR databases from home, please contact the library staff.
If you want to obtain materials from other scientific databases, please contact the library staff.
Each computer at Collegium Civitas provides a free access to the following data bases of scientific magazines and platforms with quoting statistics:
EBSCO www.search.ebscohost.com
JSTOR www.jstor.org
Springer www.springer.com
Elsevier www.elsevier.com
Wirtualna Biblioteka Nauki www.wbn.edu.pl
Scopus www.scopus.com
Wiley-Blackwell www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Web of Knowledge www.webofknowledge.com
e-publications of Polish Science www.epnp.pl
Digital National Library POLONA www.polona.pl