Opening hours
Opening hours from 23th December 2024 to 6th January 2025
From 23rd December 2024 to 6th January 2025:
- the reading rooms of the Special Collections and Austrian Library will be closed,
- the Library will operate in the following mode:
| Opening hours of the Library | Operating hours of departments: Registration, Information Desk, Circulation Desk, Reading Room |
Opening hours of cloakroom with staff | |
| 23rd December (Monday) | 0-24 (partially in self-service mode) |
9-16 | 0-22 |
| 24th December 2024 (Christmas Eve) | 0-16 (in self-service mode) | closed | closed
(Please, use the self-service lockers on level -1 and the hangers which will be set up at the main entrance) |
| 25th-26th December 2024 (Christmas) | closed | ||
| 27th December 2024 (Friday) | 8-24 (in self-service mode) |
closed | 8-24 |
| 28th December 2024 (Saturday) | 0-24 (in self-service mode) |
only Information Desk is open 9-21 | 0-24 |
| 29th December 2024 (Sunday) | 0-24 (in self-service mode) |
only Information Desk is open 15-20 | 0-24 |
| 30th December 2024 (Monday) | 0-24 (in self-service mode) |
only is open: Information Desk 9-21 and Circulation Desk 9-16 | 0-24 |
| 31st December 2024 (Tuesday) | 0-24 (in self-service mode) |
only is open: Information Desk and Circulation Desk 9-16 | closed
(Please, use the self-service lockers on level -1 and the hangers which will be set up at the main entrance) |
| 1st January 2025 (New Year) | closed | ||
| 2nd January 2025 (Thursday) | 8-24 (in self-service mode) |
only is open: Information Desk 9-21 and Circulation Desk 9-16 | 8-24 |
| 3rd January 2025 (Friday) | 0-24 (in self-service mode) |
only is open: Information Desk 9-21 and Circulation Desk 9-16 | 0-24 |
| 4th January 2025 (Saturday) | 0-24 (in self-service mode) |
only Information Desk is open 9-21 | 0-24 |
| 5th January 2025 (Sunday) | 0-22 (in self-service mode) |
only Information Desk is open 15-20 | 0-22 |
| 6th January 2025 (Epiphany) | closed | ||
In the self-service mode:
- You can enter the Library only with a valid library card. UW students and staff can activate online their card as a library card at any time. If you are not a University member and do not have a valid library card, your first visit must be scheduled during the opening hours of the Registration Point.
- You can use our collections in the Open Stacks area, WiFi (BUW.Hotspot) and online resources.
- You can borrow books from the Open Stacks and the Textbook Collection, renew the return dates and pay fines in Circulation Desk (on December 30-31, 2024 and on January 2-3, 2025 from 9 am to 4 pm).
- You can pick up books ordered from the Closed Stacks in the Pick-up Locker 24 hours a day.
- You can return borrowed books to the Return Box or Circulation Desk (on 30 and 31 December 2024, 9-16).
Opening hours
BUW is open 24 hours a day, partly in self-service mode.
From Monday to Saturday, from 9 am to 9 pm, the following service points are open: the Registration and Information Points, the Circulation Desk, the Reading Room, and the Information Desk.
On Sundays, only the Information Desk is open from 3 to 8 pm.
The staffed cloakroom is open 24/7.
In the self-service mode:
- You can enter the Library only with a valid library card. UW students and staff can activate online their card as a library card at any time. If you are not a University member and do not have a valid library card, your first visit must be scheduled during the opening hours of the Registration Point.
- You can use our collections in the Open Stacks area, WiFi (BUW.Hotspot) and online resources.
- You can borrow books from the Open Stacks and the Textbook Collection, renew the return dates and pay fines at the Selfcheck stations.
- You can pick up books ordered from the Closed Stacks in the Pick-up Locker 24 hours a day.
- You can return borrowed books to the Return Box or via the Selfcheck stations.
Please note that on the days before the fixed closing dates, the Library is open until 10 p.m. The following days the Library opens at 8 a.m.
Fixed closing dates of BUW
Public and church holidays and other days announced by the Rector of the University of Warsaw and the Director of BUW in 2024:
- January 1st – New Year
- January 6th – Epiphany
- March 30th – April 1st – Easter
- May 1st – Labour Day
- May 3rd – Constitution Day
- May 19th – Whit Sunday
- May 30th – Corpus Christi
- August 15th – Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- November 1st – All Saints’ Day
- November 11th – National Independence Day
- December 25th – Christmas
- December 26th – Christmas (second day)
We will inform you in advance about any additional days of the Library closures on BUW website.
Library opening hours in self-service mode only
- January 7th
- March 29th
- May 2nd
- May 31st
- August 16th
- December 24th
- December 27th
- December 31st
Garden
Opening hours:
8 am – 8 pm – from May 1st – until September 30th
8 am – 6 pm – April and October
8 am – 3 pm – from November 1st – March 31st – only the Lower Garden
Opening hours of departments
Open Stacks
- Monday – Sunday – 24 hours a day
Information Desk
- Monday – Saturday 9 am – 9 pm,
- Sunday – 3 pm – 8 pm
Registration for trainings and one-to-one instruction and assistance
Contact us: +48 22 55 25 181, e-mail: askalibrary.buw@uw.edu.pl
Reading Room
- Monday – Saturday 9 am – 9 pm,
- Sunday – closed
Attention! Reading Room will be open:
- on 23rd December 2024 – 9 am – 4 pm
- from 24th December 2024 to 6th January 2025 – closed
Current Periodicals Reading Room
- Monday – Sunday- 24 hours a day
Circulation Desk
- Monday – Saturday 9 am – 9 pm,
- Sunday – closed
Attention! Circulation Desk will be open:
- on 23rd December 2024 – 9 am – 4 pm
- from 24th to 29 December 2024 – closed
- on 30th and 31st December 2024 – 9 am – 4 pm
- on 1st January 2025 – closed
- on 2nd and 3rd January 2025 – 9 am – 4 pm
- from 4th to 6th January 2025 – closed
Registration (office located on the ground floor)
- Monday – Saturday 9 am – 9 pm,
- Sunday – closed
Attention! Registration will be open:
- on 23rd December 2024 – 9 am – 4 pm
- from 24th December 2024 to 6th January 2025 – closed
Requests and Complaints
e-mail: reklamacje.buw@uw.edu.pl, obiegowki.buw@uw.edu.pl
- Monday 2 pm – 9 pm
- Tuesday – Friday 9 am – 4 pm
Attention! Requests and Complaints will be open:
- on 23rd December 2024 – 9 am – 4 pm
- from 24th December 2024 to 6th January 2025 – closed
Interlibrary Loans
- Monday 11 am – 6 pm
- Tuesday – Friday 9 am – 3 pm
Attention! Interlibrary Loan will be open:
- on 23rd December 2024 – 9 am – 4 pm
- from 24th December 2024 to 6th January 2025 – closed
Reprographic Office, room 204
phone 48 22 55 25 400, e-mail: reprobuw@uw.edu.pl
- Monday – Friday 10 am – 3 pm
University of Warsaw Library Archives, room 114
phone 48 22 55 25 261, e-mail: maciej.malinowski@uw.edu.pl
Special Collections
Attention! From 23rd December 2024 to 6th January 2025 the reading rooms of the Special Collections will be closed.
Print Room
phone 22 55 25 830, e-mail: gabryc.buw@uw.edu.pl
- Monday – closed
- Tuesday 9 am – 6 pm
- Wednesday – closed
- Thursday 9 am – 6 pm
- Friday – closed
Early Printed Books Department
phone 22 55 25 761, -763, -772, e-mail: stdruk.buw@uw.edu.pl
- Monday 12 noon – 7 pm
- Tuesday – closed
- Wednesday 12 noon – 7 pm
- Thursday 9 am – 3 pm
- Friday 9 am – 3 pm
Manuscripts Department
phone 22 55 25 900, e-mail: rps.buw@uw.edu.pl
- Monday – closed
- Tuesday 9 am – 6 pm
- Wednesday 9 am – 3 pm
- Thursday 9 am – 3 pm
- Friday 9 am – 3 pm
Music Department
phone 22 55 25 745, -746, e-mail: muz.buw@uw.edu.pl
- Monday 9 am – 7 pm
- Tuesday 9 am – 3 pm
- Wednesday – closed
- Thursday 9 am – 7 pm
- Friday 9 am – 3 pm
Ephemera Department
phone 22 55 25 720, e-mail: dzs.buw@uw.edu.pl
- Monday 9 am – 4 pm
- Tuesday 9 am – 6 pm
- Wednesday 9 am – 4 pm
- Thursday 9 am – 4 pm
- Friday 9 am – 4 pm
Maps Department
phone 22 55 25 885, e-mail: gabkart.buw@uw.edu.pl
- Monday – closed
- Tuesday 2 pm – 6 pm
- Wednesday 10 am – 3 pm
- Thursday 10 am – 3 pm
- Friday – closed
19th Century Publications Department
phone 22 55 25 345, -746, e-mail: gabxix.buw@uw.edu.pl
- Monday, Tuesday 11.30 am – 7:30 pm
- Wednesday – Friday 9 am – 5 pm
- Saturday (one in each month) 10 am – 4 pm
Saturday dates for the 2024/2025 academic year:
- 5 October 2024,
- 30 November 2024,
- 7 December 2024,
- 11 January 2025,
- 8 February 2025,
- 8 March 2025,
- 5 April 2025,
- 10 May 2025,
- 7 June 2025,
- 6 September 2025.
Austrian Library
- Monday – Sunday – 24 hours a day
Registration and circulation:
- Monday 1 pm – 7 pm
- Tuesday – Thursday 11 am – 5 pm
- Friday 10 am – 4 pm
Attention! From 23rd December 2024 to 7th January 2025 registration and circulation Austrian Library will be closed.
The staffed cloakrooms
Cloakroom on the side of Lipowa Street
Opening hours:
- Monday – Sunday 0 – 24
Cloakroom behind the coffee shop
Opening hours:
- Monday – Sunday 8 am – 10 pm