Opening hours
Opening hours
BUW is open 24 hours a day, partly in self-service mode.
From Monday to Saturday, from 9 am to 9 pm, the following service points are open: the Registration and Information Points, the Circulation Desk, the Reading Room, and the Information Desk.
On Sundays, only the Information Desk is open from 3 to 8 pm.
The staffed cloakroom (from the side of Lipowa Street) is open: Monday – Saturday 8 am – 10 pm, Sunday 3 pm – 8 pm
In the self-service mode:
- You can enter the Library only with a valid library card. UW students and staff can activate online their card as a library card at any time. If you are not a University member and do not have a valid library card, your first visit must be scheduled during the opening hours of the Registration Point.
- You can use our collections in the Open Stacks area, WiFi (BUW.Hotspot) and online resources.
- You can borrow books from the Open Stacks and the Textbook Collection, renew the return dates and pay fines at the Selfcheck stations.
- You can pick up books ordered from the Closed Stacks in the Pick-up Locker 24 hours a day.
- You can return borrowed books to the Return Box or via the Selfcheck stations.
Please note that on the days before the fixed closing dates, the Library is open until 10 p.m. The followingdays the Library opens at 8 a.m.
Fixed closing dates of BUW
Public and church holidays and other days announced by the Rector of the University of Warsaw and the Director of BUW in 2024:
- January 1st – New Year
- January 6th – Epiphany
- March 30th – April 1st – Easter
- May 1st – Labour Day
- May 3rd – Constitution Day
- May 19th – Whit Sunday
- May 30th – Corpus Christi
- August 15th – Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- November 1st – All Saints’ Day
- November 11th – National Independence Day
- December 25th – Christmas
- December 26th – Christmas (second day)
We will inform you in advance about any additional days of the Library closures on BUW website.
Library opening hours in self-service mode only
- January 7th
- March 29th
- May 2nd
- May 31st
- August 16th
Garden
Opening hours:
8 am – 8 pm – from May 1st – until September 30th
8 am – 6 pm – April and October
8 am – 3 pm – from November 1st – March 31st – only the Lower Garden
Opening hours of departments
Open Stacks
- Monday – Sunday – 24 hours a day
Information Desk
- Monday – Saturday 9 am – 9 pm,
- Sunday – 3 pm – 8 pm
Registration for trainings and one-to-one instruction and assistance
Contact us: +48 22 55 25 181, e-mail: askalibrary.buw@uw.edu.pl
Reading Room
- Monday – Saturday 9 am – 9 pm,
- Sunday – closed
Current Periodicals Reading Room
- Monday – Sunday- 24 hours a day
Circulation Desk
- Monday – Saturday 9 am – 9 pm,
- Sunday – closed
Registration (office located on the ground floor)
- Monday – Saturday 9 am – 9 pm,
- Sunday – closed
Requests and Complaints
e-mail: reklamacje.buw@uw.edu.pl, obiegowki.buw@uw.edu.pl
- Monday 2 pm – 9 pm
- Tuesday – Friday 9 am – 4 pm
Interlibrary Loans
- Monday 11 am – 6 pm
- Tuesday – Friday 9 am – 3 pm
Reprographic Office, room 204
phone 48 22 55 25 400, e-mail: reprobuw@uw.edu.pl
- Monday– Friday 10 am – 3 pm
University of Warsaw Library Archives, room 114
phone 48 22 55 25 261, e-mail: m.swiezewski@uw.edu.pl
Special Collections
Print Room
phone 22 55 25 830, e-mail: gabryc.buw@uw.edu.pl
- Monday – closed
- Tuesday 9 am – 6 pm
- Wednesday – closed
- Thursday 9 am – 6 pm
- Friday – closed
Early Printed Books Department
phone 22 55 25 761, -763, -772, e-mail: stdruk.buw@uw.edu.pl
- Monday 12 noon – 7 pm
- Tuesday – closed
- Wednesday 12 noon – 7 pm
- Thursday 9 am – 3 pm
- Friday 9 am – 3 pm
Manuscripts Department
phone 22 55 25 900, e-mail: rps.buw@uw.edu.pl
- Monday – closed
- Tuesday 9 am – 6 pm
- Wednesday 9 am – 3 pm
- Thursday 9 am – 3 pm
- Friday 9 am – 3 pm
Music Department
phone 22 55 25 745, -746, e-mail: muz.buw@uw.edu.pl
- Monday 9 am – 7 pm
- Tuesday 9 am – 3 pm
- Wednesday – closed
- Thursday 9 am – 7 pm
- Friday 9 am – 3 pm
Ephemera Department
phone 22 55 25 720, e-mail: dzs.buw@uw.edu.pl
- Monday 9 am – 4 pm
- Tuesday 9 am – 6 pm
- Wednesday 9 am – 4 pm
- Thursday 9 am – 4 pm
- Friday 9 am – 4 pm
Maps Department
phone 22 55 25 885, e-mail: gabkart.buw@uw.edu.pl
- Monday – closed
- Tuesday 2 pm – 6 pm
- Wednesday 10 am – 3 pm
- Thursday 10 am – 3 pm
- Friday – closed
Austrian Library
- Monday – Sunday – 24 hours a day
Registration and circulation:
- Monday 1 pm – 7 pm
- Tuesday – Thursday 11 am – 5 pm
- Friday 10 am – 4 pm
The staffed cloakroom (from Lipowa Street)
- Monday – Saturday 8 am – 10 pm,
- Sunday 3 pm – 8 pm
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