FAQ

How can I access the library? 

How do I find the publications I need? 

How can I loan publications? 

How can I access publications not owned by the library? 

What types of reading rooms exist in the library? 

What type of information do I find in open-shelf reading rooms and in the specialized reading rooms 

What other types of services are provided to me? 

 

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How can I access the library? 

The library can be accessed using the unique, intransmittable library card.

It is issued by the Registration Office (main building, ground floor) or by the branch libraries. 

 

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How do I find the publications I need?

• By accessing:
  • The online catalogue
  • The digitized traditional catalogues
  • The digital library
• If you encounter difficulties, please ask a librarian here

 

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How do I loan publications? 

The Library Loan service offers the possibility to loan the publications held by this department for a period of 10 days. 

 

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How can I access publications not owned by the library?

Through the Internal and international inter-library loan service, you can request publications not owned by the library.

 

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• Reading rooms I, II and III, designed for students and other categories of users

Access though the “Emil Racoviță” Catalogue Room

Ground floor – 220 seats

• The “Alexandru Lapedatu” Room is resigned for university professors

Ground floor, left wing – 20 seats

• The “Mikó Imre” Room is designed for researchers

​First floor, left wing – 30 seats

• The "Adrian Marino" Room is designed for PhD candidates and young researchers

Second floor, right wing – 32 seats

• The “Raițu-Tilea” Room" is designed for all user categories to consult periodicals (newspapers and magazines) published the previous year.

Access through the “Adrian Marino” Room

Second floor, right wing – 30 seats

2. Open-shelf

• The “Lucian Blaga” Roomis designed for all user categories. It contains an open-shelf collection of publications on social and judiciary sciences. 

Second floor – 60 seats

• The Psychology and Education Sciences Library is designed especially for the students and professors of the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences

Second floor – 46 seats

• The “Gheorghe Barițiu” Current Periodicals Room is designed for all user categories who wish to consult current periodicals. 

First floor, right wing – 36 seats

3. Specialized reading rooms

• The “Gheorghe Sion” Room – Special Collections is designed for all user categories who wish to consult the patrimony collections (old books, manuscripts etc.) 

First floor, left wing – 32 seats

• The Reference Room is designed for all user categories. It contains dictionaries, encyclopedias and other works of reference. 

Ground floor – 24 seats

• The Multimedia Room is designed for all user categories. It offers access to the internet and to scientific resources. 

First floor – 20 seats

 

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What type of information do I find in open-shelf reading rooms and in the specialized reading rooms?

• The “Lucian Blaga” Room contains scientific publications in the contemporary social sciences field. For judiciary information, you can access the LEX legislative database.
• The Psychology and Education Sciences Library contains an important collection of specialized publications, monographs, periodicals, reference works (dictionaries and encyclopedias).
• The Reference Room offers access to dictionaries, encyclopedias and other types of reference documents.
• The “Gheorghe Barițiu” Room contains subscribed Romanian and foreign periodicals.
• The “Gheorghe Sion” Room – Special Collections contains old books, manuscripts, engravings, albums, maps etc.
• The “Adrian Marino” Rooms contains publications from the “Adrian Marino” collection.
• The “Rațiu-Tilea” Room contains publications from the “Ion-Rațiu – Viorel V. Tilea” collection.
• The Multimedia Room offers internet access and specialized aid in using online scientific resources.

 

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What other types of services are provided to me?

• Online request for publications from the deposit or for the reading rooms:
  • From the online catalogue
  • From the digitized traditional catalogues – books
  • From the digitized traditional catalogues – periodicals
• Online extension of the loaning period for the publications the user had taken home
• Online reservation for home loans
• Alerts and RSS
• Document shipping
• Internet access
• Access to scientific resources
• Bibliographies on request (from the all library resources) 
  Where? Documentation Office, main building, first floor.
• E-mail references
• Scanning
  Where? The Multiplication, Micrographs and Digitization Lab, main building, semi-basement. 
• Photocopying (Xerox) - with a card acquired from the Registration Office or from the “Emil Racoviță” Catalogue Room, on the ground floor.
• Photocopying with payment on the spot (Monday-Friday 11.00-14.00) 
  Where? The “Emil Racoviță” Catalogue Room, on the ground floor.

• Using a personal camera 
  Where? The “Adrian Marino” Room, main building, second floor