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The Central University Library (BCUT) was founded in 1943, developing continuously along time. It now has 2,000,000 library documents.

The library has several rooms for loan and reading, the room 155 A (the main building, the 1^st floor) being destined exclusively to the Faculty of Letters and History (reading room).

The Central University Library helps students with a modern working methodology, offering a Mediatech Room (room 155 B, the main building, the 1^st floor) where audio and video tapes, CD-ROM's can be used and the Internet can be accessed.

Here, with the help of the librarians or the computer, the most representative books, magazines, multimedia materials can be consulted.

Visit:  www.bcut.ro

Other services:

1. Access, in the reading rooms, of all existing publications.

2. Lending home books from the library’s own collections, with the exception of unique copies, of patrimony books and the bibliophile ones, of elements belonging to special collections, of magazines, newspapers, CD-ROMs and tapes that can be consulted only in the rooms of the BCUT.

3. Producing publications from the country and abroad, through interlibrary loan.

4. Access to the Internet and all sources of scientific information on electronic support  (CD-ROMs, audio and video tapes etc.)

5. Photocopies of the Library’s publications, printed on paper and saved on disk for the electronic documents.

6. Bibliographic information and counselling for the use of information tools and reference books.

7. Bibliographies on request from the database of the BCUT.

8. Access to the LEGIS database with the legislation of Romania (the Multimedia Library). Printing the required information (1500 lei/page)

9. Consulting CD-ROMs (the Multimedia Library), saving on disk or printing (1500 lei/page)

10. Watching the video tapes from the Library collection (the Multimedia Library) – an appointment is necessary.

11. Consulting online the bibliographical databases with free access or the publications with subscription that offer BCUT free access in exchange of a special licence. A librarian will assist.

Extract from the regulations of the BCUT:

Using the library

-  a reader card is necessary, thus permitting the loan and the access to materials in the rooms of the Central Library

-  each reader has a special file containing the obligation to respect the patrimony and the regulation of the Library “Eugen Todoran” that all readers have to know and observe

- the cards are not interchangeable. Not respecting this rule implies suspending the reader’s card for one semester, after which a new card can be obtained , after a sum of money has been paid (no matter the status of the reader)

- if a stranger uses the card of a library member with his/her approval and damages the funds of the BCUT, both the user and the owner of the card will be held responsible

- if the card is lost, the owner has to announce the loss in the press after which he/she will require a duplicate at the evidence service of the BCUT.

Using the reading rooms and affiliated libraries

- access to the reading rooms is limited to members who have a reading room card and only if there are free places in the reading room

- upon entering, the reader presents the custodian the reading room card and the number given to him/her at the BCUT wardrobe.

- Both upon entering and upon leaving the reading rooms with free access to books, the readers must let the custodian check their bags. In the affiliated libraries, the readers are not allowed to enter the reading rooms with personal effects which have to be left at the BCUT wardrobe.

- In the reading rooms, readers can ask for any book of the BCUT collections. For this, they will have to fill in a loan form that will be handed to the custodian who, at his/her turn, will hand it to the book handler who will provide the book as soon as possible

- Upon leaving the room, readers must give all borrowed books back to the custodian

- Readers must keep order and silence in the library as well as keep the rooms clean

- Smoking is forbidden in the Central University Library

Book loan

The Collections of the “Eugen Todoran” Central University Library can be consulted

by:

- internal readers who can also borrow books home

- teachers, researchers, employees and PhD students of the University of the West: 6 copies for 30 days

- students (Romanian and foreign) studying at the University of the West: 3 copies for 15 days

- external readers who can consult the publications only in the reading rooms of the Library

- without tax: teachers, researchers, students, and PhD students of state universities in Timisoara, researchers from the institutes in Timisoara of the Romanian Academy and the highschool students who belong to national olympic groups

- with tax: specialists (postgraduates), teachers and students from private universities

The loan deadline can be changed only once for a certain publication unless it is

needed by other readers.

The following publications cannot be borrowed home: books printed before 1900,

elements from the special collections (manuscripts, patrimony and autographed books, first editions, bibliophile series, maps, stamps, postcards, albums, musical notes etc.), books that are unique copies in the BCUT deposits, periodicals, multimedia documents (CD-ROMs, tapes, etc.)

All readers must check carefully the condition of the borrowed publications or the copies they consult in the reading rooms and report all damages to the librarian (underlinings, spots, missing pages, damaged covers etc).

Upon return, books will be carefully checked by the librarian who will immediately charge any damages that had not been signalled on the loan application form. In the affiliated libraries, the readers can consult any existing book.

Students who are not doing day courses at the University of the West and external readers can borrow books from the BCUT via the institution where they work or the library in the residential town due to the interlibrary loan system.

The readers who lose or destroy the borrowed publications will face the following consequences:

- usual books: an identical copy or a later copy of the lost book or a recent book with a similar content has to be provided plus a fine of 50,000 lei.

- unique books (published abroad): an identical copy will be provided, a fine of 50,000 lei will be paid, plus a tax of USD 5; a professionally compacted photocopy of the lost book will be also provided or the countervalue of the book plus USD 5.

- the patrimony books, the bibliophile editions, first editions, autographed books: the current countervalue of the lost book multiplied by 5, a quality professionally compacted photocopy will be also provided

- a 5000 lei tax has to be paid for courses no longer in use

- for books superficially deteriorated by the reader that can be still read the countervalue of reconditioning the book will be paid (50,000 lei for a small format publication, 70,000 lei for a big format publication)

- for underlined or marked publications, a fine of 50,000 lei will be paid

- for a book kept overdue, a fine of 3000 per day per copy has to be paid

- for a book belonging to a reading room kept overdue, a fine of 30,000 lei has to be paid

The above-mentioned fines and taxes are periodically brought up to date.

The subscription taxes are established on a yearly basis.

All those who will lose, destroy or deteriorate more than 3 books lose the right to frequent the “Eugen Todoran” Central University Library.

Schedule (during the year and the sessions of exams):

During the holidays, the reading rooms are open Monday to Friday from 8 AM to 2 PM.