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
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.
How to use the Library
Please familiarize yourself with the Collegium Civitas Library Rules and Regulations
Book your visit to the Library here to collect books reserved in the online catalog.
On-line catalogue of Library resources
Access to E-books – Ibuk Libra
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
The Open Textbook Library platform offers English-language academic textbooks under an open license. You can access it here: 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
- Warsaw University Reading Hall
- National Library Reading Hall
- 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 Science www.webofscience.com
Digital National Library POLONA www.polona.pl