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, and creates conditions for their use. In order to improve teaching, establish a research base and meet users’ needs, the Library uses the latest information technologies in its work.

General provisions

The WSL Library is an organizational unit of the university with service, teaching and research responsibilities. It operates pursuant to the Higher Education Act, the Libraries Act and the University Statute, and is an academic library. It is headed by the Director, supervised by the Rector. The Library may be used by WSL employees and students; other persons may use the reading room with the manager’s permission.

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 desk

Access to collections

Silence must be maintained in the reading room, and eating, using phones and listening to music are prohibited. Entry to the reading room requires showing an identity document and signing the visitors’ book; borrowing requires registration and a valid student ID card.

Registration: students must present a valid student ID card or academic record book, while employees must present an identity card; everyone must complete a registration card 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 overdue 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. The regulations have been in force since 1 October 2008.

The Library of Wyższa Szkoła Lingwistyczna collects scholarly 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

• 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 Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza (doctoral dissertations, publications, teaching materials)
• Biblioteka Cyfrowa ORE — resources of Ośrodek 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 scholarly texts in 30 languages
• OpenDOAR — academic Open Access repositories
• The European Library — resources of 43 European national libraries
• World Digital Library — manuscripts, maps and materials from around the world
• The British Library Collections
• American Memory — USA National Digital Library
• DigiZeitschriften / Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek — German periodical portals

Online journals

Over 30 scholarly journals available online covering education, pedagogy, speech therapy and related fields — including e-mentor, Studia Edukacyjne, Rocznik Andragogiczny.

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

• Phone: +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 sessions, at the hours provided in the virtual dean’s office