The Reading Room is a space intended for reading daily print and the newest issues of periodicals which are available in the library’s collection. Reading room’s collection is made of individual issues of the current year’s newspapers and magazines. The copies are regularly changed, so that users have access to the newest issues every morning. After the 2017 renovations, the reading room was moved closer to the study room, therefore it is under the Scientific Literature Department.
During the summer months, part of the collection is moved to the Summer Reading Room, which is located outside behind our building (Literary Park). Here, readers may sit in the fresh air and summer sun.
All scientific and specialized magazines, as well as the newest issues of magazines are for on-site loaning, therefore must be read inside the library.
However, older issues of periodicals which are in the reading room’s collection may be loaned off-site for two weeks. One may loan up to 15 periodicals.
The library subscribes to 49 popular, 112 specialized, 34 regional, 11 children periodicals, and 5 periodicals in English.
Periodicals in English:
- Bridge,
- Communications: scientific letters of the University of Žilina,
- Connection,
- National Geographic,
- The Slovak Spectator.