OUR CATALOGS

In the Lending Library of the Institute of English studies there are no traditional, card catalogues. All the information concerning the library collections, arranged in a venerable though easy-to-use program MAK, is available solely via the computer system, and can be accessed either from the Library computers or the Internet.

The Institute of English Studies Lending Library catalogues:

• The Book Catalogue - contains all the library books (over 53,000 volumes). The book needed can be found by entering author's name, book's title, its subject, personal subject, or keyword (a fragment of subject). The catalogue can also be accessed on the Internet.
• The Journal Content Catalogue - the material needed can be located by entering the title of the periodical, the year of its publication, its author's name, its title or a word taken from it. It contains materials from the most often read periodicals in our collections, published after 1990.
• The Journal Catalogue - also accessible via the Internet.
• The POLANKA Catalogue - the central catalogue of various English Studies libraries, which gives access to the materials of nine Polish libraries that boast our largest book collections. In order to make searches for the particular localizations of all the books included there easier, here is the list of the abbreviations used in POLANKA:
• • WAI - Warszawa, Instytut Anglistyki UW (Institute of English Studies, Warsaw University),
  • WAO - Warszawa, Ośrodek Studiów Brytyjskich UW, (British Studies Centre, Warsaw University),
  • NKJA (UKKNJA) - Nauczycielskie Kolegium Języka Angielskiego (Teacher's Training College, Warsaw University),
  • KR - Kraków, Instytut Anglistyki Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego (Institute of English Philology, Jaggielonian University),
  • KA - Sosnowiec, Instytut Kultury i Literatury Brytyjskiej i Amerykańskiej Uniwersytetu Śląskiego (Institute of British and American Culture and Literature, University of Silesia),
  • TOK - Toruń, Centrum Badań Kanadyjskich Uniwersytetu im. Mikołaja Kopernika (Canadian Studies Centre, Nicolaus Copernicus University),
  • TOB - Toruń, Katedra Filologii Angielskiej Uniwersytetu im. Mikołaja Kopernika (English Philology Department, Nicolaus Copernicus University),
  • PO - Poznań, Instytut Filologii Angielskiej Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza (Institute of English Philology, Poznan),
  • OP - Opole, Instytut Filologii Angielskiej Uniwersytetu Opolskiego (Institute of English Philology, Opole),
  • LLUBL - Lublin, Instytut Anglistyki Uniwersytetu im. Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej (Institute of English Studies, Maria Sklodowska-Curie University)
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• Note: Not every library mentioned above must have a complete computerized catalogue available.
  
• The Reading Room Catalogue - includes only those books which are stored in the Reading Room. Available only there.
• The M.A. Thesis Catalogue - includes M. A. dissertations of the Institute of English Studies' graduates written after 1990. Likewise, available only in the Reading Room.

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