University Library

Level 4, room 4.11
tel. 68 328 2166
e-mail: ZS@bu.uz.zgora.pl

Open:
Monday - Friday 8 a.m. 3 p.m.

Special collections are available to the employees, doctoral students and students of the University of Zielona Góra, as well as institutions and individuals from outside the University for research, teaching, publishing and exhibition purposes.

The collections are available in the laboratories of the Special Collections Department or in the Reading Room for Special Collections.
The head of the Special Collections Department may grant consent to the loan of a given document (e.g. books, maps, graphics, manuscripts or posters) to University employees and scientific or cultural institutions for scientific, educational or popularizing purposes.
Special materials can be scanned for teaching, research, and popularizing purposes, in accordance with the Act on Copyright and Related Rights, with the prior consent of the head of the department. Each item requires individual consideration.

For long-term loans, the signature and stamp of the authorized person representing the institution that borrows the library materials are required. The list of borrowed materials is prepared in the form of a protocol, which is signed by the director of the Library and the head of the Special Collections Department on the part of the Library of the University of Zielona Góra.

Responsibility for the damage or loss of the borrowed item is fully borne by the borrowing person or institution. If the item has been lost or damage the Library shall claim payment based on the antiquarian price of a given item.

Access to doctoral dissertations
The original copies of doctoral dissertations defended at the University or defended at other universities donated by their authors are kept in the University Library in the Special Collections Department.
Doctoral dissertations written as part of the proceedings initiated by April 30, 2019 shall be available to interested persons in the Reading Room for Special Collections for 10 days before the planned defence. Doctoral dissertations prepared as part of the doctoral proceedings initiated after 1 October 2019, will be available before the defence in the Public Information Bulletin of the University.
Doctoral dissertations are registered in the library database and can be searched in the Integro catalogue.

With the consent of the authors, doctoral dissertations defended at the University of Zielona Góra or at other universities are presented at the Repository of the University of Zielona Góra (see item types: doctoral dissertations).
Doctoral dissertations are available to the staff, students and doctoral students of the University as well as other persons from outside the

University for research and teaching purposes.
In order to access doctoral dissertations a valid student card or library card must be presented.
The reader gets access to a doctoral dissertation only for reading in the Reading Room for Special Collections, upon prior request.
Requests for doctoral dissertations are carried out during the working hours of the Special Collections Department.
The use of doctoral dissertations is subject to the Act on Copyright and Related Rights.

The reader is obliged to fill in the reverse and the form in which the purpose and date of using the dissertation shall be described.
After using the dissertation, the reader hands it over to the librarian on duty.

Interlibrary loans of doctoral dissertations are possible only in special cases if the head of the Special Collections Department gives a consent.