The activities of the Section include:

• Substantial care of the functioning of the branch libraries making up a uniform library information system, including tracking any changes in legal regulations regarding these libraries, training, the organization of meetings, and periodic inspections.
• Cooperations with polish and foreign libraries.
• Participation in creative work connected with the accomplishment of the branch library model in the scope of merging collections, the organization, and coordination of library processes based on VTLS/VIRTUA system.
• Formal verification of documentation regarding the selection and inventorying of the branch libraries' collections.
• Cooperation with all departments or divisions of the Main Library within the scope of activities for branch libraries, the regular update of information on the collections and activities of the branch libraries.
• Ongoing financial and quantitative inventorying of the Main Library collections, including the clarification of all inconsistencies in the register as compared to the real state of collections, preparing the drafts of annual plans and reports from the inspection of the Main Library collections.
• Verification of documents regarding the selection of the Main Library collections.

	Independent Section for Interlibrary Cooperation and Collection Inventory AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Main Library ground floor, room 4 2nd floor, rooms 207, 208 30 A. Mickiewicza Av, 30-059 Kraków phone: +48 12 617 32 16, + 48 12 617 32 14,  e-mail: zofia.pawlowska[at]bg.agh.edu[dot]pl
	www.bg.agh.edu.pl

The library network consists of 17 libraries including 12 faculty libraries, 2 institute libraries and 3 libraries of non-faculty units.

The collections comprise (status on 2022/12/31) :                  

The total number of current journals titles: 170 titles.

Branch libraries are open from Monday to Friday, some also on Saturday. According to the regulations they have the right to be closed to their users (especially students) on one day of the week (usually Wednesday) for internal work. The rules for collection circulation are laid down in the faculty regulations and based on the rules of the Main Library and branch libraries collections, approved by the Deans or the Managers of administrative units.

The source of information about the library collections is AGH University - Catalogue of library collections. It contains information about publications which were received by the libraries after 1998 (cooperating libraries are marked with *). The catalogue also includes earlier collections to fit the libraries' potentials or needs. 

Currently, the libraries of the Faculty of Drilling, Oil, and Gas and the Faculty of Humanities are being reorganized.

Branch Libraries - brochure 2022_2023

For more information click on the library name.

• Interlibrary Loans

Interlibrary Loans provides access to library collections that are not accessible in any of Cracow’s libraries. This service is available for the employees, doctoral students, full-time and extramural students of AGH-UST.

opening hours

Interlibrary loans request form