Reading room

The reading room is provided with 33 seats all of which have  connection to the Internet. Manual files, arranged according to their previous location until the conversion process currently taking place is finished, can also be found in this room. Roundabout 30% of the Rare Book holdings can be found on the Online catalogue Cisne.

The reference collection as well as José Simón Diaz Library, both located in the reading room, are free access.

Signatures are codes that reflect the book’s collection and establish the book’s location. Therefore MSS FLL 35 is a manuscript belonging to the Philology collection; the currens numbers indicate its location in the book stack.

Manuscripts: BH MSS
Incunabula: BH INC
Engravings: BH GRA, GRL

Rare books(General): FOA
Rare books(Law): BH DER
Rare books (Philology): BH FIL
Rare books (Medicine): BH MED

Simón Díaz: BH SD
Reference: BH R (Free access; organized by UDC)
Offprint: BH R Separatas
Facsimiles: BH R FAC