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Training concerning Library Use - CINIBA

Scientific Information Centre and Academic Library(CINiBA) is a joint scientific resource of two Katowice universities: The University of Silesia and the University of Economics. It was launched in 2012 and it is based in the premises of the university campus. CSIAL invites students, doctoral students, scientific employees as well as inhabitants of Silesia who may use the resources of the library (at present the Centre holds almost 2 million of publications), as well as provides consultations regarding scientific information. The library functions also as an institute of culture: conferences, trainings, exhibitions or trips are organized in it.

The building of the Centre is an example of modern architectural structure in which all amenities that allow the readers to use the necessary materials freely are located. The library is adjusted also to the needs of the disabled persons. The readers may use: the computer equipment, scanners, individual work cabins as well as devices for self-check and self-return of books. The readers may also obtain assistance from the personnel who will inform them about the functioning of the Centre in person at the library building as well as by phone or electronically.

In response to the needs of the users related to the changing reality, the library realizes many services remotely. The readers may thus register online, use a broad offer of electronic sources from home or order a digital copy of the necessary material. CSIAL provides access to such databases as the Repository of the University of Silesia that gathers publications of academic employees, Didactic Digital Library of US containing materials necessary for students to attend classes as well as other platforms containing, among others, books in an electronic format. On the CSIAL channel in the YouTube service, movie database manuals are available.

The library updates the data concerning its functioning on an ongoing basis – we invite you to visit the website (ciniba.edu.pl) and the profiles in social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn).

If you have any questions, contact us at: zapytaj@ciniba.edu.pl.

HOW TO SUBSCRIBE?

You can subscribe online by filling out and sending us the form „Register of new readers”.

Then, a request for remote access to the account should be additionally sent to bgwyp@ciniba.edu.pl.

After verification of authorization for the newly registered reader to the email address specified in the form a message about account activation will be sent.

During the first visit in the library, you should appear at the library with your student ID card and your student record book.

 

ELECTRONIC SOURCES

CSIAL offers access to numerous electronic sources, such as, among others:

 

CONTACTS

Centre for Scientific Information and Academic Library
Bankowa 12, 40-007 Katowice

Opening time:
Monday-Saturday: 8:00–20:00

Informatorium: tel. 32 786 5130

The informatoriums located on three levels of the library assist in using the CSIAL resources and searching for scientific information in the library catalogue, in the printed and electronic sources.

We also invite everyone to contact us by email.

Contact form: ask a librarian

Library: Tel. 32 786 5100, 32 786 5121

Employees of the library provide information concerning setting up and activating library accounts.

General reading room: tel. 32 786 5151

You may book an individual work cabin here.

Branches of the Specialist Library of the University of Silesia in Katowice:

Library American Corner: 32 359 1702, 32 359 2135
German Library: 32 359 1667
Law Library: 32 359 1264
Social Sciences Library: Rental: 32 359 9807, Reading room: 32 359 9708
Theology Library: 32 257 2073, 32 257 2059
Film Arts Library: 32 359 2402
Philological Reading Room: 32 200 9207
Earth Sciences Library: Rental: 32 368 9262, Reading room: 32 368 9661
Modern Languages Library:  Rental: 32 269 1888, Main Reading Room: 32 269 1893
Branch of US Library in Cieszyn: Rental: 33 854 6444, Reading Room: 33 854 6442, Journal Reading Room: 33 854 6443

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