The reading-rooms

Kórnik Reading-room

Contacts:

The reading-room in Kórnik Castle is located on the first floor. The catalogue is in a separate room, opposite the entrance to the reading-room.

The reading-room provides access to:

reference library

Holds 465 works in 1,120 volumes.

The library has encyclopaedias, dictionaries, bibliographies, armorials, catalogues of manuscripts, old prints and microfilms of material from our library and other establishments. There is also a collection of manuals and monographs on literary criticism and linguistics.

In the reference library, the librarian on duty provides access to the resources; there is no need to complete call slips.

new works on stock

These are predominantly prints from the 19^th and 20^th centuries and journals.

Bookmarks are completed electronically after logging in to
the reader’s electronic account available in a bookmark in electronic catalogues.

Orders for stored collections are processed every hour, from 9:00 a.m. to 02:00 p.m., inclusive.
The call slips submitted after 2:00 p.m. will be processed on the following
day.

The books to be borrowed are ordered and collected in the reading-room.

microfilms

special collections

These collections include manuscripts, old prints, maps, hand-written newspapers, diplomas, graphics, photographs, plans, postcards and other very valuable artefacts. Rules of access to these collections is provided in the regulations of access to special collections.

In order to study them, a two-part bookmark is completed by providing the catalogue reference numbers. The orders are processed like for all the other works in store.

books and microfilms brought from other libraries

It is possible to make use of an interlending system in order to bring works from other libraries and gain access to them in the reading-room.

The Działyński Palace
reading-room

Contacts

+48 531 979 603
czytelnia@bk.pan.pl

The reading-room of the Poznań branch is located on the first floor of the Działyński Palace, in the historical White Room.

The paper catalogue is in
the reading-room.

The reading-room provides
access to:

the reference book collection

It contains 1,245 works in 4,394 volumes.

The collection consists of encyclopaedias, dictionaries, bibliographies, armorials, catalogues of manuscripts, old prints and microfilms of material from our library and other establishments. It also holds manuals, monographs and journals on history and literature, and a large collection of source materials.

new works in storage in Kórnik

These are mainly prints from the 19^th and 20^th centuries and journals, stored in Kórnik Library.

The bookmarks are completed electronically after logging in to the reader’s electronic account available in a bookmark in electronic catalogues.

Items ordered from storage are brought from Kórnik three times a week, on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays, at approximately 9:00 a.m.

The orders should be placed by 2:00 p.m. at the latest on Mondays, and by 08:00 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Up to 10 works (15 volumes) can be ordered on a single occasion.

The ordered books will wait for the reader for a month.

microfilms

The reading-room is equipped with microfilm readers.

Since the reading-room in Poznań does not provide access to the special collections, there is only a possibility of ordering the related microfilms or CDs with the reproductions.

The microfilms are ordered like the works in storage.