Loans, Returns, Renewals

Loans (off-site, home)

• literature for study and common book collections

In-house use (reading rooms only)

• books on open shelves in reading rooms
• archive collections
• journals and magazines
• theses
• technical standards (ČSN)
• encyclopedias
• terminological and explanatory dictionaries
• handbooks
• expensive foreign books
• sources on CD-ROMs
• mediating loans from other Czech and foreign libraries – see inter-library loans
• lending e-book readers

Returns 

Loans must be returned within their loan periods.

When the library is closed, loans can be returned using Biblioboxes (Book return box).

If the loan period expires, students and external users are obliged to pay overdue fines according to Library and Lending Rules of the VSB-TUO Central Library.

Loan renewals

Period of loans can be renewed according to Library rules (see loan periods). Renewals are allowed only if the document has not been reserved by another user.

Renewals can be performed:

• using My account in the online catalogue;
• by phone, see Key contacts;
• by sending a request to the e-mail address

Library Catalogue

• The VSB-TUO Central Library catalogue can be used for searching documents in library collections.
• My account in the online catalogue can be used for loan renewals.