Open Access Zone
Open Access Zone in the main hall of the Silesian Library is a place of comfort and relax Informatorium is also a place for individual study, providing access to computers with Internet connection.. You do not need a library card to read inside books and magazines displayed on the shelves and to listen to audiobooks. The library members can additionally watch a movie or borrow books. In the Open Access Zone there is an open access to the new releases (fiction and non-fiction books, guides, comics, regional and historical literature, film and music publications, children’s books, audiobooks).
For the youngest readers there was prepared a corner with educational or colouring books.
Location symbol in the OPAC electronic catalogue: HOL
Informatorium
Reading room provides reference collection of informational-bibliographic character (encyclopaedias, dictionaries, bibliographies, information materials).
In the reading room you can find traditional catalogues: alphabetic and systematic one. Informatorium is also a place for individual study, providing access to computers with Internet connection.
Location symbol in the OPAC electronic catalogue: IN
Available for readers:
- 3 computers with access to Internet,
- 1 computer with access to interlibrary digital loan system Academica,
- 1 microfilm reader.
Open Access Zone and Informatorium
plac Rady Europy 1, 40-021 Katowice
tel.: (+48) 32 20 83 740, (+48) 32 20 83 863
Monday: 12.00–20.00
Tuesday–Friday: 8.00–20.00
Saturday: 8.00–15.00