The Reading Room and Interlibrary Loans
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The reading room is located on the first floor of the Main Library building.
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Reading room is silent-study area. In the reading room there are 130 seats for readers and three air-conditioned group study rooms for up to 12 persons each. Free wi-fi is available throughout the library building, including reading room. The reading room is admittable to the general public. The reading room provides access to Polish and foreign books and periodicals in print. This collection is available for on site use only. There is access to more than 9.000 books and subscribed journals in print from current year. All collections are systematically supplemented. Books and journals in the reading room are presented on the shelves accordingly to the subject and then organized in an alphabetical order by title. There is a separate section for English program literature: both medicine and dentistry. All library materials are protected against theft. In the reading room the user can also use library materials currently kept in the storeroom. In order to do so the user has to order the materials via electronic catalogue or ask the librarian. Materials kept in the storeroom are intended for on site use or borrowing accordingly to the item status. Library storeroom is the part of the library not accessible to the users. The items kept in the storeroom are intended both for lending and on site use, according to the item status and location. Copies of the library materials can be ordered by the users at the desk. Users are obliged to present their own materials (books or journals) to the librarian while entering and leaving the reading room. |
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Reading room is friendly for disabled patrons. |
Airconditioned group-study rooms... |
... are located on antresol. |
Magnetic board available for readers. |
Users are able to connect with free PUM wi-fi to get an access to all the databases, e-periodicals and e-books provided by the Main Library through the university network. Patrons may also use their electronic devices like laptops, scanners, digital cameras etc. Side tables are equipped with electric sockets.
Reading room is friendly for disabled users.
One computer in the reading room provides access to the electronic catalogue.
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Specially designed workstation is located next to the circulation desk. Big, electrically adjustable table and profiled chair provide disabled patrons with a comfortable workplace. |
The workstation is equipped with touch-sensitive monitor, keyboard for visually impaired persons, Big Track mouse, headphones with microphone, magnifying glasses (including electronic one), scanner and screen magnification software with speech. |
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Reading room provides access to the aids for learning anatomy such as:
- two models of human skeleton
- seven models of skull
- one human torso
Life size human skeleton - especially useful for explanations and comprehension. Faithful to detail medical model, true to nature bones. Skull can be opened to view its inner structures. Lower jaw, arms, legs and the most important joints are movable.
Life size human skull - high quality classic skull is medically detailed in structure. It can be disassembled into 3-parts: calvaria, base of skull, and mandible. The calvaria is removable to show the internal structure of the skull. The mandible is articulated and removable. The teeth are separated, same as real ones, in ceramic white color. All of the joints, sutures, fissures, foramen, and styloid processes are highly accurate.
Human torso model - classic, unisex torso model has the feature of an open neck and back section going from the cerebellum to the coccyx. Vertebrae, intervertebral discs, spinal cord, spinal nerves, vertebral arteries, and many other features are represented in detail in this colorful replica of the human body.
The human torso model includes the following removable parts and organs:
- 7th thoracic vertebra removable
- 6-part head 2 lungs
- 2-part heart stomach liver and gall bladder
- 2-part intestinal tract front half of kidney front half of urinary bladder
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In the reading room you will find:
- Skeleton, unassembled (bone collection)
- Ligamented female pelvis
- Lumbar spine with pelvis, for demonstration of malpositions
- Human Kidney Section Model with Nephrons, Blood Vessels & Renal Corpuscle
- Classic Human Heart Model with Bypass, 2 part
- Classic Human Brain Model, 5 part
- Human Larynx Model, 2 times Full-Size, 7 part
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If book or journal is also available in online version - appropriate information is displayed on the shelve together with QR code directing to the full-text.
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Interlibrary loans Every registered user may use the interlibrary loans to acquire literature not available in the PMU Library and in the other libraries in Szczecin. The interlibrary loan service may bring documents that are not available within the Main Library collection (as well as in other libraries of Szczecin) from other Polish and foreign libraries. Requests, payments and receipt of documents are provided in the reading room within the operating hours. More details about interlibrary loans are included in services tab on library’s website. |
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Separate shelf with dictionaries, encyclopedias etc. |
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The journals are presented by subject and then in an alphabetical order by title. In the reading room only current year issues are available, archives issues are kept in the store room and are provided to users by ordering. |
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The users should leave any books they've used on the trolleys (do not put them back onto the shelves, please!). |
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In the reading room users are obliged to:
- take off their coats or jackets and deposit them together with the hand-luggage in the lockers on the ground floor
- refrain from phone call
- in case of using teaching aids like skulls, skeletons etc or taking library materials outside the reading room - leave the library card or student ID to the librarian on duty
- refrain from eating and drinking
- keep silence
Last update - 22.12.2020
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Photos by Anna Cymbor