Botanical Library

Location

Benátská 2, the ground floor

Contact

Tel.: 221 951 605
e-mail: knihbot@natur.cuni.cz

Library Hours

Discovery service UKAŽ (catalogue)

Contact us

Phone: +420 221 951 605

E-mail: knihbot@natur.cuni.cz

The Botanical Library (ABD044) is currently the second largest unit of the Library of Biological Sciences. Its collection contains approximately 100,000 items relating to various botanical and pharmacobotanical disciplines (taxonomy of fungi, lichens, algae, mosses and vascular plants, flora of the world, phytogeography, geobotanics and paleobotanics, ecology, plant morphology and anatomy, forestry, crop and pharmaceutical plants, history of botany). The library is located on the ground floor of Benátská 2 building, on the right side of the corridor leading from the main entrance to the building. Students and teaching staff of the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, can freely access the Main Area of the library where most of monographs and journals are housed (organized by subject); other visitors have to ask a member of library staff for the item(s) they want to borrow. The Study Room with 5 seats and computers with an internet access can also be used by all visitors of the library