Main Library of Warsaw University of Technology - Artykuł

Online ordering

Most of the ML WTU collections can be ordered via the Internet after logging into your library account. These items have Hold option in our online catalogue. If you want to request them, click on Hold in the Request Option.

The ordering is impossible when you have reached the limit of possible loans or your library account is blocked. If the item is placed in the ML Open Stacks section, you will have to get it by yourself for it can’t be requested.

Time to collect the items

You can collect the requested item(s) when you see the date displayed on your library account.

Note that you must collect the item(s) from the library within 4 days from realizing the order for full-time students and 14 days for part-time students. The 4 / 14 days are counted from the day, when the information about realization of the order appears on your library account.

Place to collect the items

As WUT printed resources are stored in different localizations, you can collect the requested item(s) in the place where the item is stored.

It is very important to check the localization and the status of the item. In our online catalogue in Locations/Request tab you can find information about the localization of the books.

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Loan period

The loan period of books is indicated for each item in the library catalogue under the tab Locations/Hold under Due date/Status.

Once a book has been loaned, the due date will appear in your library account under Loans and also in the catalogue under the tab Locations/Hold under Due date/Status.

The library may ask for a book to be returned before the deadline in justified cases.

Loans limit

The status of the different user groups, the limit of borrowing outside WUT and the maximum single period of validity of the library account are listed in the table on the User authorization levels page.

The limit applies to all loans on the user's library account, regardless of their location (Main Library, its branches, faculty and institute libraries).

Other WUT libraries (faculty and institute libraries) may apply additional restrictions to the lending of their resources.

BiblioWawa Warsaw Reciprocal Borrowing Programme

Main Library of Warsaw University of Technology participates in the BiblioWawa Warsaw Reciprocal Borrowing Programme (SWW), under which registered WUT users can borrow library materials from affiliated libraries.

You can register to the system at the Students Lending Room (Main Building, ground floor, room 71)

More information about BiblioWawa

• Loan period is determined by the regulations of participating libraries
• Loan limit: 3 books per user in each participating library

PhD and other degree theses

Engineering, bachelor and master theses that are not classified, have been defended after 1st July 2021 and for which the author has granted Warsaw University of Technology a licence to make them available in a closed library circuit, are made available electronically on terminals in Open Stacks (2nd floor, room 242a), Library of the Warsaw University of Technology in Plock and in faculty libraries (Architecture; Chemical and Process Engineering; Electronics and Information Technology; Physics; Building Services, Hydro and Environmental Engineering; Civil Engineering; Mechatronics; Power and Aeronautical Engineering; Automotive and Construction Machinery Engineering; Transport).

PhD theses since 1990, contained in the WUT Base of Knowledge, are made available electronically on terminals in Open Stacks (2nd floor, room 242a) and in faculty libraries (Architecture; Chemical and Process Engineering; Electronics and Information Technology;  Physics;  Building Services, Hydro and Environmental Engineering; Civil Engineering; Mechatronics; Power and Aeronautical Engineering; Transport). The chronological range of PhD theses made available in WUT BK will be gradually expanded.

Journals and  newspapers

Journals are not lent outside the library. Journals can be used only on site in the Journals Reading Room, room 242, Level 2. The latest issues of journals are available on the shelves. If you need an issue more than 3 years old, you need to order it from the storehouse, at the Circulation Desk.

Standards

The collection of standards is available in the WUT Library Reference Centre, room 161 b. According to the regulations of the Polish Committee for Standardization, you are not allowed to make a copy of standards.

Special collection

These are maps, manuscript-type documents, old or fragile items, e.t.c. The special collection is available in the National Heritage Library Collection, room 70, Level 0.