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View of the building from Dobra Street (39,3 KB)
View of the building from the East (33,5 KB)
Entrance at the corner of Dobra and Lipowa Street (28 KB)
Approaching the main entrance through the arcade (39,9 KB)
The main entrance (27,3 KB)
Copper book with the inscription Hinc Omnia
Catalogue hall (37,6 KB)
Catalogue hall (64 KB)
Catalogue Hall
Catalogue Hall
Catalogue Hall
Catalogue Hall
Catalogue Hall - North wall
Card catalogue
View of the Catalogue Hall from the Reading Room
Banners with subject areas (39,8 KB)
Banner showing subject area
Reference Desk - Informatorium (26,5)
Reference Librarian information desk
Reading chairs in the open stacks (39,1 KB)
Reference librarian desk (31,9 KB)
In the subject area (31,9 KB)
Shelves in open stacks (43,8 KB)
Computer stands (43 KB)
Computer stands
Computer stands
Computer stands
Circulation Desk (31 KB)
Circulation Desk
In front of the Reading Room (56,1 KB)
In front of the Reading Room
In front of the Reading Room
In the Reading Room (41 KB)
In the Reading Room (43,9 KB)
In the Reading Room (39 KB)
In the Reading Room
In the Reading Room
Computer stands in the Reading Room (34,4 KB)
Current Periodicals and Microforms Reading Room (50,1 KB)
Glass bridges over the main entrance (43,2 KB)
Columns with statues of eminent Polish philosophers (48,3 KB)
Print Room - reading room
Patrons at the well of knowledge (a glass-covered well reaching the treasury)
In the treasury

Façade with the copper panels:
Plato (427-347 a. C.) : Phaedrus 247 e7 - 275 a6 (Greek inscription) (61 KB)
Mathematical and scientific formulas (41,6 KB)
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) : Etude in B minor op. 4 No. 3 (score from the Library's Music Collection) (41,3 KB)
Old Testament, Ezekiel 3, 1-3 (original Hebrew text) (60,1 KB)
Povest Vremennykh Let, a fragment of a Kiev chronicle from the beginning of the 12th century (manuscript in Old Church Slavonic) (67,3 KB)
Jan Kochanowski (1530-1584) : Lecture on virtue (Gothic font typical for Polish publications of the 16th century) (61,2 KB)
Al-Jahiz (d. 869), Book on Animals (calligraphic Arabic) (58 KB)
Rigveda 3.62.10; Mundaka Upanishada 1.1.4-6; Bhagavadgita 13.7-11 (Sanskrit, Devanagari printing) (67,7 KB)