Central Library

BCLZ - The Main Reading Room

The Main Reading Room is in the first place a reference library, where you can consult encyclopedias, dictionaries, major handbooks, reference works and introductions to nearly all study fields. They are classified according to the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC).
According the same system you will find additional larger collections on the galleries.
At the loan desk you can call for registration and deliver your request slips for stack-room documents.

The Main Reading Room (photo's: Jan van Impe, December 2000)

Around the corner is the Special Reading Room. Here you will find - besides the photocopiers - the atlas collection, the European Studies, and on the gallery the UDC-9-class with reference works on genealogy and heraldry.
At the ILL-desk you can handle your inter-library lending requests. 

On the other side of the main reading room you can find the Room of Bibliographies. Here are collected the national bibliographies, all kinds of directories, library catalogues, in short the UDC 0-class, together with the biographies (UDC 929). 
The multifunctional Pc's offer the opportunity to consult the electronic equivalents as well.
Attention: special bibliographies are shelved with the respective study fields in the main reading room!

Stack-rooms (BIBC, BEXT)

In addition to the immediately accessible works in the reading-room, the Central Library maintains a considerable storage collection in its stack-rooms. You can consult these books and periodicals by handing in a request slip at the reading-room desk. This concerns the category of documents which in the LIBIS-catalogue have a call number preceded by the acronyms BIBC or BEXT.