We will provide resources for your work and study

Departments have at their disposal an amount allocated by the faculty that they can use to purchase resources to become part of the Central Library’s collections.

The list of required information resources is created for each department only by an authorized person via an acquisition form. The list of required information resources is then sent to the library. This is followed by a check for duplicates and availability. If the library does not have the resource and is able to acquire it, the process continues with a demand or tender procedure and the required resources are ordered. The library will then take care of library processing of the items and will make them available to users.

The library monitors the drawing of institutional support funds allocated to individual departments and when necessary assists the departments in adjusting their orders to meet the financial requirements. 

If you want to purchase new information resources for your branch library, contact the assigned person at your department. The collections of departmental libraries are supplemented exclusively from the funds of individual departments; orders and the subsequent accounting agenda are handled by the department itself according to the public procurement procedure (projects, grants). The library supervises the process from a methodological point of view and, after the purchase, ensures library processing.

All items obtained in this way must be registered in the library catalogue and confirmed on the accounting documents by the acquisition department before these documents are handed over to the economic department.

Faculty staff can borrow for their scholarly work publications purchased from department or project funds for a longer than usual loan period, known as long-term loan.

After purchase, the information resource becomes part of the library’s collection and must be properly recorded in the catalogue. It is therefore necessary to bring the physical copy to the library, where the cataloguing will take place and the loan rules will be set. The loan period ends on the set date, but no later than as of the date of termination of the employment contract. If you no longer need the loan or the project under which the publication was purchased has ended, it can be returned at the Circulation and Registration Desk. You can find an overview of your loans in your account after logging in to the catalogue.

Long-term loans can also be transferred between employees with the written consent of both parties. If you are interested in this option, write to knihovna@phil.muni.cz.

Students can contact the library to request a temporary in-house use of publications with a long-term loan status, unless another access to them is provided (E-loans).

Employees drawing funds from projects and grants can also allocate part of the funds to the purchase of new literature.

The purchase and accounting processing are the responsibility of the given department in accordance with the project documentation with possible methodological assistance of the Central Library. All information resources obtained in this way must be registered in the library catalogue and confirmed on the accounting documents by the acquisition department before the documents are handed over to the economic department. The library will subsequently take care of library processing.

Information resources obtained from project and grant funds are most often transferred to long-term loans and departmental libraries, but can also be placed in the Central Library.

If you need to buy or subscribe to a new electronic information resource for your students or research, we will arrange the entire acquisition process. From negotiating with the supplier, through demand/tender procedure, to its purchase and making it available. First of all, however, it is necessary to consult the purchase and check for possible duplicates within the entire university. Therefore, please use the contact form below. We will contact you and arrange the details.

In addition to making the resource available within the MU network, including remote access, we also offer methodological support, promotion and training in working with electronic information resources. 

We offer the possibility of purchasing e-books on request (DDA, Demand Driven Acquisition). You can choose from the ProQuest Ebook Central collection, which contains almost 700,000 items. You have five minutes to view the selected e-book without any obligation. After this time, the system will prompt you to send a purchase request.