NSK reading rooms collections

Apart from providing space for study and research, the reading rooms at the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) offer access to specially curated reading room collections and the collection which NSK compiles as the central library of the University of Zagreb.

Resources in NSK’s reading rooms collections, with the exception of material held by the Foreign Croatica Collection and Doctoral and Master’s Theses Collection, are available for browsing and consultation on open access shelves.

Items on open access shelves of which several copies are available may be borrowed. Titles in NSK’s reading rooms collections may be searched by using the NSK Catalogue.

NSK reading rooms collections by floor

• Ground Floor (0)
  • Reference Collection
• Mezzanine Floor (M)
  • LIS Collection
• Floor 1  
  • Doctoral and Master’s Theses Collection  
  • Foreign Croatica Collection
  • Homeland War Collection  
• Floor 3  
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Reading Room
• Floor 4  
  • Natural and Applied Sciences Reading Room (including resources on economics and management)
  • Official Publications Collection  
  • NSK European Documentation Centre

Reference Collection

Located on the Library’s Ground Floor, our Reference Collection holds a wide variety of reference works – encyclopaedias (general and specialised), dictionaries, biographical dictionaries, bibliographies (current, retrospective and special), almanacs, yearbooks and directories.

LIS Collection

Providing its services from Monday to Friday between 8.00 and 16.00 on the Library’s Mezzanine Floor, our LIS Collection includes over 4,000 titles covering a broad range of topics in the field of library and information science and of information and communication sciences.

The LIS Collection also operates as the reference collection of the Croatian Training Centre for Continuing Education of Librarians (CSSU).

Looking for titles for your research?

For assistance in finding resources for your research or the preparation of seminar reports, graduation, Master’s and doctoral theses, please send in your query using our Ask a Librarian service. You may also request assistance in finding material in person, at one of our help desks.

You may search our reading rooms collections titles in the NSK Catalogue and learn about the latest titles in our Social Sciences and Humanities Reading Room and Natural and Applied Sciences Reading Room by checking out the NSK Reading Rooms Collections Accessions Registry.