Loan Services

Home borrowing

Home borrowing (absentee) is only available to registered users. You can borrow up to 40 documents in total (but only 7 e-books/e-audiobooks, 4 standards and 3 board games at a time). All documents must be ordered through the online catalogue. Search for a document and click on the All Units box. Availability information will be displayed, then select Request and click OK to confirm your order. If the book is borrowed (the Request box is orange), you will be placed in the reservation queue for that document.

The length of the loan period may vary:

• books - 30 calendar days
• bound magazines, standards, music CDs, audiobooks - 7 calendar days
• board games - 14 calendar days

If the document is not reserved, the loan period can be extended a maximum of 11 times (online, in person, by phone). In case of late return, the user is obliged to pay a fine (see price list).

Home delivery

Readers with a valid registration are offered the possibility of sending up to 3 books to their home or to a selected branch of Zásilkovna. The service is subject to a fee. The price of the shipment depends on the chosen delivery method and is payable by cash on delivery (often payable by card): 

• 100 CZK on pick-up at your chosen delivery point of the Postal Service
• 150 CZK on delivery to your chosen address

If you are interested, please fill in this form. Your order is binding. In the event of non-collection, the price will be charged to the reader's account as a debt, which you must pay on your next visit or through a payment gateway.

Library-only status documents

Documents with a library-only status cannot be borrowed home (due to protection or legislative restrictions). However, you can study them in the study room, we prepare them on demand. A scanner and photocopiers are available in the study room to make copies for personal use.  These are mainly:

• books published before 1925
• books obtained by the so-called compulsory copying
• unbound magazines
• audiovisual documents

Interlibrary Loan Service

If you need a book or a copy of an article that our library does not have, we can order it for you. 

The request for the interlibrary loan service is entered through the library's online catalogue (top menu - ILL). Please let us know if you are interested in a copy and by when your request is up to date.

Interlibrary loan service is charged. Fee 70, - CZK includes postage and packing. If the lending library requires additional costs, the user is obliged to pay them in full. When a hard copy of the text is delivered, the sending library will determine the price.

In case the required document is not owned by any library in the Czech Republic, it is possible to mediate the International Interlibrary Loan Service (IILS). Information about the estimated price of this service will be provided to the user by an infopoint worker or an ILS staff.

For further questions, please, contact poradna@msvk.cz