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)