To become a reader of the University of Łódź Libraries, you must actively express your desire to do so. You can do this:
•    in person at any Faculty Library,
•    in person at the University of Łódź Main Library;
•    online, by sending an email requesting an account to: bul.wm@lib.uni.lodz.pl from your student or work email address registered with the University of Łódź domain.

People from outside the University of Łódź can use the collections on site.

To find the books you are looking for, use the online catalogue, available on the BUŁ homepage (https://elibrary.lib.uni.lodz.pl). The catalogue allows you to search for items by author, title, subject, and also offers an advanced search option, combining, for example, the author's name with the specific title of their book. The search results can be narrowed down to items of interest, e.g. books published only in Polish before 2009.

To borrow a book to take home, you need to place an order electronically – after logging into your account in the online catalogue (https://www.lib.uni.lodz.pl/), click on the ‘Request from Closed Stacks’ button. Ordered books can be collected when their status in the reader's account changes to ‘Ready for collection’. Please make sure that the book you are ordering has the status ‘available for borrowing’ (zbiory do wypożyczeń). Do not order books that are ‘for use on site’ (zbiory do korzystania na miejscu).

Free Access is a space at BWES that is directly accessible to readers. In other words, it is an open reading room for books and periodicals with workspaces. Free Access books are marked with different coloured stickers. The colours indicate the sections in which the book is located. For example, a red stripe means finance, three blue stripes mean sociology. A list of sections (and colours) is displayed in a visible place in the reading room. Each free access book has its own call number (an alphanumeric classification containing information about the subject area and additional data about the author, edition, etc.). Free access books cannot be reserved. Simply take the selected item from the shelf. After using materials on site in the Library, please return them to the trolleys standing next to the shelves.

Yes. Log in to your account in the online catalogue and click on the ‘Place hold’ button next to the specific book. When the book is returned by the previous reader and prepared for you, you will receive an email with this information. The status of the book in your account will change to ‘Ready for collection’. The book must be collected from the lending desk within 3 working days.

No, because each reader borrows books in person, presenting their library card – encoded on their student ID card, which must not be shared with third parties – to the librarian. However, any person can return a book (no ID is required for returns), or you can use the drop box on the ground floor of building E.

Orders are processed from Tuesday to Friday during the circulation desk's opening hours or from the book machine between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. Orders placed the previous day can be collected from 10 a.m. Orders placed after 3 p.m. can be collected the following day.
Ordered books can be collected when their status in the reader's account changes to ‘Ready for collection’. Ordered and reserved materials are available for collection for three days.

To collect a book, you need a student/doctoral student ID card or an electronic library card. Books must be collected in person. In exceptional cases (illness), you may use the help of another person, who must present authorisation.

Ordered books are available within 3 days of ordering, after which time they return to the closed stacks and must be reordered.

For books ordered to the lending room, the processing time is 2 hours. The book must be collected within three working days (including the day of placing the order).

Extensions of the book loan period, can be made independently after logging into your reader account in the online catalogue or at the Library (in person, by telephone: 42 635 52 66 or by e-mail: bibliotekaeksoc@uni.lodz.pl). 
Extensions will not be possible if:
the book return date has passed,
the book has been reserved by another reader,
the reader has outstanding financial obligations to the BUŁ or the faculty library.

Each book can be extended twice, books from other faculties can be extended once.

If the return date is exceeded, the reader's account will be blocked. In this situation, it is best to return the book as soon as possible.

Anyone can return books on behalf of a reader. In addition, there is a drop box on the ground floor of building E where you can return books outside of library hours.

All publications in our library can be searched for in the main catalogue at https://elibrary.lib.uni.lodz.pl, where you can also place your order.

The most frequently used, most interesting or most important periodicals are located in the reading room. They are arranged by title. Other periodicals (archival) are located in the storage room – they must be ordered to the reading room by filling out a paper request form. 

We do not collect master's and doctoral theses – they can be found in the digital Archive of Theses (APD - Archiwum Prac Dyplomowych) of the University of Łódź at usosweb.

Yes, you can take photos. Of course, you must respect the rules of social life and the GDPR ;)

The website https://www.lib.uni.lodz.pl/katalogi-i-zbiory/e-zasoby contains subscribed databases and open resources.

Please notify the Library Manager, Barbara Adamiak-Kuśmierek (barbara.adamiak@uni.lodz.pl), if you would like to donate books. We will determine whether we can accept specific titles.

In such a situation, please contact the library. The librarians will draw up a report and inform you about further steps. Usually, you will need to repurchase the book (not necessarily a new copy – preferably one from the same year as the damaged copy) or bring another book suggested by the librarian.