This library is situated
in the new building of the Central University Library, fourth floor (BIV).
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0800 -1600 |
Special Collections are organized in all libraries that hold
patrimonial values.
The collections consist of: old manuscripts of religious and administrative
texts, manuscripts of writers’ works, Romanian old books (up to 1830), foreign
old books in Latin, German, Magyar, French, Italian, English etc. (up to 1800),
Romanian modern books (1831-1918), foreign modern books (1801-1850),
autographed books, bibliophile books, editiones principes, Romanian and
foreign old periodicals (up to 1918), Romanian inter-war periodicals up to 1947
and foreign inter-war periodicals up to 1945, picture postcards, records,
microfilms, engravings, maps, photographs, orders and medals.
Consultation
conditions: No item of the Special Collections can be borrowed. It is allowed
to consult them only in the reading room of this library.
Access to documents of the
Special Collections is allowed to all users having a reader’s card and a
consultation request signed by the General Manager of the Library.
Autographed books can be
consulted at Special Collections only if the titles requested are the single
copies in the Library.
Both when readers get and return
documents, the librarian will carefully check, in their presence, each item and
will issue the fine papers at once if she sees damages caused to documents by
readers.
Readers’ access to the Special
Collections documents is limited, as they must be properly stacked as well as
handled, to prolong their life as much as possible, after most of them had
crossed centuries.
Special Collections, as well as
Legal Deposit, are aimed at preserving representative documents of every period
of time of the cultural and spiritual human evolution.
Services offered: consultation of collections in the
reading room, specialized assistance in using instruments of retrieving
information, specialized references, assistance in identifying documents that
belong to the Special Collections.