Services of PMU library

2. Using non-lending collection

Reading room

The reading room is PMU library department responsible for providing access to variety of library materials. All items located in the reading room are available for on site use only and are placed on bookshelves ordered by specific collections (Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, English Program) and further by subject.

Library materials kept on bookshelves located in reading room:

·         current issues of scientific journals

·         current issues of magazines and newspapers,

·         books,

·         teaching aids.

 

The library materials cannot be taken outside the reading room.

All library materials located in the reading room are protected against theft by an electronic book detection system.

The reading room is one and only library department accessible to not registered users interested in medical literature.

 

Materials held in the storeroom

The archival issues of scientific journals and a substantial part of the reading room collection are kept in the library storeroom and may be delivered to the reading room upon request. Orders for items held in storeroom made 30 minutes before closing of the reading room are completed at the next working day.

Library materials kept in the storeroom and available in the reading room upon request:

·         Ph.D theses,

·         books published before 1945,

·         archival journal issues,

·         valuable and rare library items.