Library Mission

The mission of the Library is to support the teaching and learning process, as well as research activities at Wyższa Szkoła Lingwistyczna, by providing information sources and access to communication technologies. To this end, the Library develops its collections, catalogs, preserves and makes them available, while also creating conditions for their use. In order to improve teaching, create a research and scholarly base, and meet users’ needs, the Library uses the latest information technologies in its work.

General provisions

WSL Library is an organizational unit of the University with service, teaching and research responsibilities. It operates under the Law on Higher Education, the Libraries Act and the University Statutes, and is a research library. It is managed by the Director, who is supervised by the Rector. WSL employees and students may use the Library; other persons may use the reading room with the permission of the manager.

Library responsibilities

• Collecting, cataloging and making collections available
• Information, bibliographic and documentation services
• Teaching and research activities
• Cooperation with other libraries

Structure

1. Reading Room
2. Lending Library

Making collections available

Silence is required in the reading room, and eating, using phones and listening to music are prohibited. Admission to the reading room requires presenting an identity document and signing the visitors’ book; borrowing requires registration and a valid student ID.

Registration: students must present a valid student ID or index, while employees must present an identity card; everyone must complete a registration form and undertake to comply with the regulations.

Borrowing:

• up to 10 items (students) / 30 (employees)
• loan period: 14 days (books, cassettes, discs)
• periodicals, newspapers and the reference collection — for use on site only
• renewals are possible upon request before the due date

Fines: for exceeding the return deadline — 1 zł for each day of delay per item. Library services may not be used until outstanding obligations have been settled.

Final provisions

Readers bear full responsibility for borrowed materials and must return them in unchanged condition. Disputes are settled by the Director of the Library. These regulations have been in force since 1 October 2008.

The Library of Wyższa Szkoła Lingwistyczna collects academic materials in the fields represented at the university.

Books

Encyclopedias, dictionaries, anthologies, textbooks, grammar tests and fiction.

Serials (current subscriptions)

The Teacher, Poliglota, Fremdsprache Deutsch, Deutsch als Fremdsprache, Języki Obce w Szkole, Rocznik Pedagogiczny, Przekładaniec, Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny, Linguistica Silesiana, Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, Lingua Legis, Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, Glottodidactica, English Teaching Professional, Modern English Teacher, Rocznik Przekładoznawczy and many others.

Back issues

Oxford Today, English Teaching Forum, National Geographic, Spotlight, BBC English, The World of English, ELT Journal, The Economist and others.

Other resources

• Diploma theses
• Maps
• Audio and video cassettes
• Multimedia programs on CD-ROM
• Films on DVD
• Databases on CD-ROM and DVD

Polish digital libraries

• AMUR — repository of Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza (doctoral dissertations, publications, teaching materials)
• Biblioteka Cyfrowa ORE — resources of Ośrodka Rozwoju Edukacji
• Biblioteka Cyfrowa Katedry Lingwistyki Formalnej UW
• Biblioteka Cyfrowa UMCS — textbooks, monographs, doctoral dissertations
• Biblioteka Cyfrowa Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
• CEON — repository of Centrum Otwartej Nauki (Open Access)
• Polona — Cyfrowa Biblioteka Narodowa
• Pedagogiczna Biblioteka Cyfrowa
• Repozytorium Cyfrowe Instytutów Naukowych (RCIN)
• Federacja Bibliotek Cyfrowych

International digital libraries

• Google Book Search
• IntraText — religious, philosophical and academic texts in 30 languages
• OpenDOAR — academic Open Access repositories
• The European Library — resources from 43 European national libraries
• World Digital Library — manuscripts, maps and materials from around the world
• The British Library Collections
• American Memory — USA’s National Digital Library
• DigiZeitschriften / Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek — German periodical portals

Online journals

More than 30 academic journals available online in the fields of education, pedagogy, speech therapy and related disciplines — including e-mentor, Studia Edukacyjne, Rocznik Andragogiczny.

Wyższa Szkoła Lingwistyczna — Biblioteka
ul. Nadrzeczna 7, 42-200 Częstochowa

• Telephone: +48 34 365 58 02 ext. 118 or 115
• Fax: +48 34 324 59 12
• E-mail: library@wsl.edu.pl

Opening hours

• Tuesday – Friday: 09:00 – 14:00
• Saturday: during weekend sessions, at the times provided in the virtual dean’s office