A library card is issued in the Lending Unit after the user has completed the required formalities to sign up. The library card is free of charge and cannot be given away to other people.
A student, who is holding a MUG student ID, does not receive a library card, because their students ID is their library card as well.

All MUG students are automatically enroled to the Library and the electronic student ID is the MUG Library card as well, so there are no obstacles to borrow books.

Lost library cards should be reported to the Lending Unit as soon as possible. There is the possibility to get a duplicate card upon payment of the applicable fee according to the price list.

To request a book use the online Library catalogue.
In case of resources that were acquired by the Library before 1992 and are not yet available in the online catalogue, use the traditional paper Request Form, which should be completed with the necessary data found in the Library's card catalogue.

>> more information – see borrowing services

You can renew the borrowed items online using your account. The books may be renewed:

• each item twice, each time for 30 days,

• no sooner than 5 days before the return date, but still before it expires,

• exceptions are items that are reserved.

Renewal starts the day it is applied for.

If you fail to return the borrowed items by the due date your library account will be suspended and fees will be applied, according to the price list.

Yes, you can reserve:

• up to 4 books (over the borrowing limit),

• no sooner than 30 days before the return date.

When the reserved item is available, the user receives an e-mail stating that it can be picked up (within 5 days) and indicating the request expiration date.

Make sure you pick your books up within 5 days (including Sundays and holidays) from requesting them. Otherwise, they will be returned to the storeroom.

Before you pick your books up, you are advised to check in your library account whether their statuses are set to: available for picking up.

If you happen to lose a borrowed item, please inform the Lending Unit about the incident as soon as possible. You will be asked to replace the item at your own cost. This could either be the same or a newer edition of the lost item. In some cases the head of the Circulation Division will indicate what you should buy.

Outside the Library opening hours the borrowed items may be returned to the book return box, located in the Main Library building side entrance (accessible from
the Dębinki St.), which is available:

• on Monday from 6:00 am until 10:00 am,

• from Tuesday to Friday from 6:00 am until 8:00 am.

Materials that are not available in any of the Tricity libraries' collections can be ordered from other Polish or foreign libraries by the Interlibrary Loans Unit. For this, you must fill in the Interlibrary Loan Request Form. All necessary costs are covered by the person submitting the request. The due date for returning the ordered items is set by the lending library. Original materials acquired in this way are only available to be used on site in the Reading Rooms.

Yes, all MUG students, MUG PhD students, University research and teaching staff, who have an active Library account and no arrears to the Library, automatically have access to the Library e-resources via HAN server. For more information, see remote access.

After the end of the academic year, you are required to return the books which cannot be renewed and also pay any fees (e.g. for overdue books). If you are required to obtain a student leaving card confirming no books outstanding or loan arrears, you will receive it after checking your library account by the librarian in the Lending Unit.

Yes, there are computers with Internet access located in the Scientific Information Reading Room. You can use them for scientific or educational purposes only.

Yes, on the Library premises there are Internet services available as follows:

• Library network called biblioteka (choose it and write the password: biblioteka); than type the following address to the browser: bgwifi.gumed.edu.pl and log in as to your MUG email account,
   
• eduroam (education roaming) – see more information about eduroam in MUG.

In the Main Library there are several places equipped with electricity sockets.

Yes, MUG Main Library has an Online Catalogue, where you can find information of items systematically acquired by the Library since 1992. Of course, it is continually updated with new entries and the bibliographical descriptions of materials acquired by the Library before 1992 are also gradually added.

You can make copies by using one of the two photocopying machines, which are located in the Reading Room 1. Photocopiers are self-service and coin-operable.
The cost is 0.15 zł per A4 page. Keep in mind that the photocopiers do not give change.

Yes, you can make black & white printouts in the Reading Room 1
(2 self-service terminals; the cost is 0.15 zł per A4 page).

There is 1 self-service scanner (free of charge) in the Reading Room 1, available for all the users of the Library. One should bring one's own USB memory or CD-Rom
to save the file.