The School library has a unique access to virtually all available scientific publications and periodicals when compared with other libraries in the country, which has been significantly facilitated by the possibility of searching through on-line records of National-Louis University, as well as regularly updated resources of maintained electronic library.


Traditional library
The library comprises approximately 56,000 volumes, out of which 8,000 are foreign language textbooks and 48,000 other volumes (textbooks, manuals, reference books, theses, and magazine annuals). The Library currently subscribes to over 2,000 magazines (on CD-ROMs and DVDs) and carries issues of 120 titles of magazines in print form. The library also has a wide collection of audio-visual materials (approximately 1,200 cassettes) including, among others series of videotaped lectures on management conducted by American professors from the General Motors Institute.


Electronic library
Students are able to browse the library's holdings using purpose-designed computer hardware, CD-ROM drives and other peripheral equipment with a possibility of selecting and bringing out desired full text articles or their abbreviated abstracts. The library's resources are stored on compact disks, DVDs and CD-ROMs.
The gathering of over 2850 CD-ROMs constitutes an electronic datastorage equivalent to nearly 100 000 volumes of textbooks and other print materials stored in a conventional way.

The library's resources encompass such databases as:

ABI/INFORM - bibliographic and excerpt database of over 1000 periodicals;

Business Periodicals Ondisc (BPO) - a database comprising full text articles and excerpts derived from a variety of highly regarded American journals - a collection represents a group of over 460 titles of journals specilizing in fields of Management and Business-related Studies;

General Periodicals Ondisc - a multi-topic database comprising excerpts and full text articles derived from over 560 journals in various fields of concentration;

The Wall Street Journal - a full text database covering the period since 1991;

Dissertation Abstracts - a multi-topic database gathering scientific dissertations supplemented with a broad collection of abstracts and excerpts spanning the period from January 1993 till September 1996;

Bibliographic Directory - 1981-1998 (CD-ROM available), updated on-line;

Legal Information System LEX - updated monthly;

TEMIDA - a collection of current laws with court enforcements updated quarterly;

TESOL Quarterly Digital - articles and didactic materials for tutors and teachers of the English language covering the period from 1967 till 1997;

Magazine Content Directory - 1996 - 1998 (CD-ROM available), updated on-line;

Bookstores - Wholesalers - Publishing houses - comprises essential information concerning the Polish publishing and bookretailing market (CD-ROM available);

A Guide to Polish Education and Science 2001 - (CD-ROM available);

The Almanac of Polish Companies listed on Stock Exchange - 1997/1998 (CD-ROM available);

Abridged Statistical Yearbook 1999 - (CD-ROM available);

Enterprises 2004 (CD-ROM available) - comprising over 22 000 key-notes and facts on currently operating companies on the Polish market (addresses, information on industry branching and conducted business operations), as well as 75 000 notes and facts on Polish managers and entrepreneurs.


The Library also offers access to on-line databases:

Economy - is a current, annotated bibliography of economic issues;

Social Science - is an annotated bibliography of economic issues with focus on theoretical aspects of business and social transformations;

Lex on line - updated laws and legal regulations;

The Archives of Gazeta Wyborcza;

PROQUEST - an extended version of the BPO database; contains full-text articles from English language journals on social science, business, and general studies.

NLU databases on-line:


As part of the cooperation with the National-Louis University, the library offers all enrolled students unrestricted access to the following Internet-based databases:

EBSCO - a database holding records of nearly 1600 different magazines providing students with full text international articles in the leading fields of Banking, Finance, Entrepreneurship, Economics, Management, Strategic Planning, as well as Human Resource Management and health-related studies;

ERIC FirstSearch Illinois - a comprehensive database incorporating records derived from such sources as: WorldCat (textbooks and other library holdings), Medline (all areas of interest in Applied Medicine), Agricola (materials pertaining to agriculture), Wilson SelectPlus (full text articles featuring topics on General Studies, Social and Business Studies), PerAbs (general thematic core and excerpts from televised and radioed broadcasts) and many others. A few of the aforementioned are full text collections;

Kraus Curriculum Development Library - a multi-subject database;

Horn Book Giude Online - the database that publishes short reviews of books published in the USA and addressed mainly to the youth;

Illinois Digital Library Databases (IDAL) - database encompassing resources of the EBSCO HOST including Academic Search Elite, Business Source Premier, Newspaper Sources, Health Source Plus and Harpers Weekly featuring full text articles in fields of General Studies, Business Studies, Economics, Sociology, as well as health-related studies and Applied Medicine;

ILLINET Online Book Catalog via Web - a browsing service permitting students to search for publications, audio-visual auxillary materials and other non-print records of the National-Louis University and other member libraries of ILSCO

Additional information
Library users can also benefit from an extensive on-line collection of non-print scientific and non-specialized publications. Moreover, the Library has created a user-friendly on-line Library Info Service available on http://biblioteka.wsb-nlu.edu.pl/, owing to which visitors may easily obtain essential information and data concerning the Library and its current affairs. Through this service students may perform precision searches for sought-after textbooks and publications employing On-line Library Catalog (based on the OPAC Module - System-wide On-line Public Access Catalog), which constitutes an integral part of the complex Library Management System - PROLIB.
The Library's resources are also available to institutions and members of local communities.

Opening hours

Check-out Desk

Weekdays - from 8.00a.m. to 7.00 p.m.
Saturdays - from 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.

Reading Rooms and Electronic Library

Weekdays - from 8.00 a.m. to 7.00 p.m.
Saturdays - from 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.