Loan Services

Outside loans and loans for in-house use:

• books, cartographic documents, music scores - outside loans and loans for in-house use (lending room)
• hard-covered magazines, newspapers and other continuing information resources - outside loans and loans for in-house use (study room)
• unbound magazines, newspapers and collections of laws - loans for in-house use (study room)
• documents published in the Moravian-Silesian Region (deposit copies) - loans for in-house use (department of special collections)
• standards - loans for in-house use (department of special collections)
• patents - outside loans and loans for in-house use (department of special collections)
• company documents, company journals - outside loans and loans for in-house use (department of special collections)
• sound records (language teaching recordings with textbooks, music CDs) - outside loans (department of special collections)
• audiovisual documents - mostly loans for in-house use (department of special collections)
• special collection for the visually and hearing impaired - outside loans and loans for in-house use (department of special collections)

Interlibrary loan service - mediation of loans of documents which our library (or another library in Ostrava) does not have in its collections (reference service)

Routing services - regular outside loans of new accessions in library collections according to user's needs and requests - especially loans of separate current issues of specialised foreign journals (lending room)