Monday – Thursday 8.00–18.00
Friday 8.00–15.00

Our library offers free registration for students, teachers and employees of Masaryk University. External users are charged a registration fee of CZK 300 (first year) and CZK 200 (each additional year).

Active students and employees need not visit the library for registration, the only condition is to conclude to the MU Library Service Agreement at https://inet.muni.cz/app/knihovny/prihlaska and hold a valid ISIC card/MU card/employee card.

External users get registered at the circulation desk on the ground floor with their ID card and/or Alumni card.

Ground floor (1. NP) – Relax zone, kitchenette, team study, cloakroom
First floor (2. NP) – Maths, Anthropology, Physics, Astrophysics and General collection
Second floor (3. NP) – Earth Sciences (Geology, Geography)

Chemistry, Biochemistry and Biology are covered in the collection of Library of the University Campus in Bohunice.

The remaining collections of Anthropology, Botany and Zoology are available in the sublibraries of the MU Faculty of Science.

Book spines are marked with call numbers. These consist of a code (indicating a particular subject) and the first four letters of the author’s surname, corporation or title itself, e.g. 558.11-BRÁZ. Call numbers of closed stacks items are different, e.g. I-5400, K-286. You can find the call number by seeing details of a particular title in the library catalogue. For more information see the Search Guides section.

Red spot 🔴 books are in-house loans. These cannot be used but inside the library. It is however possible to borrow them overnight at closing time, or for the weekend if borrowed on Friday.
Green spot 🟢 books are Semester (3 months) loans. Further renewal is possible.
Non-labeled books are standard (1 month) loans. Further renewal is possible.

Standard – no label, for a month, possible to renew twice
Semester – green label, for 3 months, possible to renew once
Week – no label, for 1 week, cannot be renewed
In-house – red label, possible to borrow overnight or for weekend
Long-term – primarily for teachers, staff and doctoral students; request via "Ask for a Loan" button in the catalogue

All users can recall a book that is currently borrowed by another user by signing in to their account on the library catalogue website. Remember you cannot make a reservation of a book that is available in open stacks. Learn more...

Books and journals can be requested via Library Catalogue. If signed in, you can see “Place a Hold“ at items from the “ÚK Sklad“ collection. Click on “Place a Hold“, fill in a simple form and submit your request. Document will be ready for you within 90 minutes at the circulation desk on the ground floor. You will receive an email when the document is ready.

If your books are overdue, you need to pay a fine. Standard and semester loans are charged CZK 5 per day and item. In-house loans are charged CZK 10 per hour and item.

Library Catalogue comprises records of all MU faculties’ collections, including ours. Search the catalogue here: https://katalog.muni.cz/.
For more information on login, account, searching or requesting documents, see the section Borrow, Renew and Return.
Check our guides for searching documents in the library or see search tips directly on the catalogue site.

Long term loans are intended for teachers. If you desire a long term loan, ask a librarian at the circulation desk for details.

ILL = Interlibrary Loan Service
IILL = International Interlibrary Loan Service
If you cannot find your desired document in the Library Catalogue or in any of the catalogues of libraries in Brno, we can supply it from elsewhere. The only condition is that you need to be a registered user of our library.

Preferably via an electronic form, or via an e-mail to mvs@sci.muni.cz,or in person while in the library. It is possible to order books, copies of chapters from books or copies of articles from magazines or contributions from proceedings.

Within 14 days from the Czech Republic.
Within a month from abroad.
Request status is reported by e-mail. Documents are delivered by means chosen in the order form. Pick-up point is at the circulation desk on the ground floor.

Loans from within the Czech Republic are usually free of charge, loans from abroad are CZK 300,-. A copy from within the CR is CZK 2,- a page + postal fee.
A copy from abroad (journal article, proceedings contribution, chapter from book) is CZK 100–200,- depending on volume.
Payments are accepted in cash or through cashless rebilling (employees only).

In order to print you need to have an active SUPO account with a minimum deposit of CZK 50,-. Log in to a PC with your UČO and secondary password. Choose the “PRINT MU“ printer and submit your document to print. Attach your ISIC card to the printer reader, choose the document for print and push the “print“ button. Use printer on the first floor. More about printing here.

Black and white
A4 – CZK 1.50, double-sided CZK 2.80
A3 – CZK 3.00, double-sided CZK 5.80
Colour
A4 – CZK 8.00, double-sided CZK 15.80
A3 – CZK 16.00, double-sided CZK 31.80

Common causes:

If the printer reports "Neznámý uživatel, neplatná karta" (“User unknown, non-valid card“), your SUPO account has not been activated or your ISIC balance is too low (a minimum of CZK 50 is required). You may top up your balance with the top-up machine on the ground floor.
You might have sent your print job to other than PRINT MU printer.
It may take some time to write large files to the printer queue. Wait a few moments or check your print jobs.

External users may ask a librarian at the circulation desk downstairs to print for them. Users are then charged according to the standard price list.

1. Check whether your K Drive (K:) is not full
2. Reboot the PC
3. Try any other PC
4. Seek help from a librarian

You may cancel your print job right at the printer. Click on the print job and then press the “Bin“ icon. You may as well cancel your print job at https://print.ucn.muni.cz/. Use your UCO and secondary password to log in.

If you do not have your ISIC on you, you can print using your PIN code. Generate your PIN at https://print.ucn.muni.cz/. The PIN is valid for 24 hours.

EIR are information resources for science, research and education at MU. They are generally licensed resources for which MU pays the access fees. EIR are accessible only to the MU students and employees and are intended exclusively for academic purposes. Access EIR from computers connected to the MU computer network or via remote access.

Find complete overview of MU EIR on Portal of electronic information resources. Browse EIR based on alphabetical order, faculties or subjects. Free-trials are a special offer (restricted access time – usually for 2–3 months).

EIR are basically accessible only from the MU computer network. For connection from outside the university network (from home etc.), there are three types of remote access: VPN, EZ proxy, Shibboleth.

Details and instructions.

To look up a certain journal, use Electronic journals portal (A-to-Z), accessible through EBSCO Discovery Service. Find more information on searching options on Electronic resources portal.

EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) allows a quick search of MU electronic information resources. The service works on basis of browsing Central Index which focuses on technical content – both metadata (including keywords) and full texts are indexed. A great variety of publishers’ productions is also comprised. The service offers tools that finds full texts to the search results. It also browses the library catalogue MU.

The Full Text Finder service finds full texts within the MU electronic resources (especially bibliographic databases). The service currently runs in various databases, including EBSCO Discovery Service.

For any queries concerning EIR, please reach us at eiz@sci.muni.cz or contact a responsible person listed in a resource’s Additional information section on EIR Portal.