Library
- The University WSB Merito Bydgoszcz Library offers a rich collection tailored to the university’s profile.
- Our library is open to everyone, including external visitors.
Online resources and databases
- We offer free access to books and journals.
- Want to use the library’s electronic resources? Click the name of the database you are interested in and log in.
Library catalogue
- In the catalog you can search for print books, e‑books and journal articles.
- The catalog is available 24/7.
- It allows for quick collection searching and book reservations.
Contact us
Opening hours:
- Monday–Friday 9:00–16:00
- Saturday 9:00–15:00
Contact details:
- phone number: 52 58 29 114
- e-mail: [email protected]
Library in numbers
Library lending departments
Search for, borrow or order books via the online library catalog.
- You can borrow 10 books for 4 weeks, with the option to extend (by phone, e‑mail or in the catalog).
- Some books are available only on site in the reading room.
- To use the collection, log in to the catalog with the details received when your library account was registered.
Library – where to start?
- Familiarize yourself with the library training.
- Fill in the form in the online catalog by clicking “Account” (the icon in the top right corner of the screen) and then “Register”.
- Activate your account within 21 days of registration by contacting us in person, by phone or by e‑mail ([email protected]). Please provide your student ID number and field of study.
Library catalogue
How to order/reserve a book?
Step 1: Go to the Merito library electronic catalog page and log in using your library card number and password.
Step 2: Use the search tool to find the book you want to borrow.
Step 3: Check availability. If the book is available, click the “Borrow” option. If it is unavailable, you can reserve it.
Step 4: After ordering the book, you will receive a confirmation and will be able to collect it from the university library.
Extension (renewal) of a loan
- You have full control over your loans and can extend due dates without needing to visit the library.
- You can renew the due date of a borrowed book yourself by logging in to your library account.
- A renewal can be made up to 5 times, provided there are no other reservations for that book.
Book reservations
- Thanks to the online reservation system, you can track book availability and reserve copies that are currently unavailable (on loan).
- When the book is returned, you will receive an e‑mail notification and will be able to collect it from the university library.
- You can cancel a reservation at any time. If a book you have borrowed is reserved by another user, you will no longer be able to extend its due date.
Pickup and return
- You can collect books in person during library opening hours or via the book locker located by the reception desk.
- You can also return books outside library opening hours by putting them into the book drop located at the main entrance to the university.
Fee for overdue book return
If you return your books late, remember that there is an overdue fee of 0.60 PLN per day for each book.
You can pay this amount in cash at the library or by bank transfer to the account: BANK PEKAO SA O/TORUŃ 56 1240 6478 1111 0000 4949 2785 (in the transfer title, enter: library card number, first name, surname, student ID number).
Photo galery
See in the photos what our university library looks like!
Reading room
The reading room offers:
- computer workstations with Internet access,
- open access to books and journals arranged by subject,
- scanning facilities for readers,
- a relaxation zone and a bookcrossing shelf,
- the possibility to use chargers and headphones.
Journals
- the reading room holds specialist print journals from various fields,
- you can also use electronic journals available in database collections,
- online journals are also available to you – check them out!
Digiteka – Digital Teaching Materials
It is a collection of over 2,000 materials for students and lecturers (including case studies, manuals, videos, and books) from various fields such as philology, computer science, law, psychology, and management.
Library databases
LEX
It is a constantly updated legal database that provides access to the full body of court and administrative case law, legal literature, and Polish legal sources. It also includes the Legal and Economic Information Guide and the Polish Legal Bibliography of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
IBUK Libra
It is an e‑book platform with titles from major academic publishers (e.g. PWN, Wolters Kluwer, Helion) covering fields such as economics, humanities, social sciences, law, medicine and sport.
digital library
It is a comprehensive Polish law database with legal acts, court rulings, official explanations, letter templates and thematic modules such as Civil Law, Criminal Law, Taxes, Labour Law and Public Procurement.
ACADEMICA
It is a nationwide digital interlibrary loan service. Academica provides access to the National Library’s digital resources, including contemporary scholarly books and journals from all fields of knowledge, and for more details you are invited to ask at the library.
Infor Lex
It is a full‑text database containing legal acts, case law, commentaries and articles from specialist press published by INFOR, covering finance, taxes, accounting and HR.
BIBLIO ebookpoint
It is an e‑book lending service that works similarly to a traditional library. It includes academic titles as well as fiction, self‑help books and specialist publications. The database requires additional registration – click to open the registration instructions.
EBSCO
It is the largest (mainly English‑language) full‑text database covering exact sciences, humanities, social sciences, psychology, education, economics, business, computer science, engineering, biology, chemistry, physics, medical and biomedical sciences, and many other fields.
Springer Link
It is a full‑text Springer database that allows you to search and browse electronic journals from many fields, providing access to tables of contents, abstracts and full articles (archive available from 1996).
Wiley-Blackwell
The Wiley‑Blackwell collection includes journals, books and articles published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd (Wiley) and Blackwell Publishers, covering the sciences, humanities and social sciences.
Scopus
It is a database of abstracts and citations created by Elsevier, covering peer‑reviewed journals, scholarly books and conference proceedings, and providing a broad overview of global research outputs across many disciplines.
Web of Science
It is a database created by Thomson Reuters that indexes several thousand journals, monographs and conference materials, and, besides standard bibliographic data, includes reference lists comprising over one billion citations.
Nature
It is one of the oldest and most prestigious scientific journals, published by Nature Publishing Group, presenting discoveries from all areas of natural, engineering, exact and economic sciences, and since 2010 it has been available in Poland under a national academic licence.
Science
It is a scientific journal published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. It has been available under a national academic licence since 2010, which provides access to the current volume and archives from 1997 onwards.
National Library in Warsaw
It contains information about the Library itself and the National Library’s catalog, which gives access to the National Bibliography, including the Bibliographic Guide, the Contents of Periodicals Bibliography, the Bibliography of Electronic Documents and various specialist bibliographies.
NUKAT
It is the National Universal Central Catalogue, the largest union catalog in Poland, covering records from all participating libraries, including books, journals, sound recordings, music scores, films, and cartographic and iconographic documents.
KaRo
It is the Union Catalog of Polish Libraries that provides access to information on the holdings of Polish and foreign libraries, helping you find publications or bibliographic records and complementing the NUKAT central catalog.
BazEkon
It is a database co‑created by the Main Libraries of the Universities of Economics in Kraków, Wrocław, Poznań and Katowice, the SGH Library in Warsaw and the Faculty Libraries of the University of Szczecin, containing abstracts or full‑text scholarly articles in economics.
CEON
It is the repository of the Centre for Open Science that contains various scholarly materials such as articles, books, conference papers, reports and doctoral theses, and all materials in the repository are openly accessible.
CEJSH
It is an electronic, open‑access journal that maintains an online database of English abstracts of articles and papers published mainly in national languages in social sciences and humanities journals issued in Central Europe.
BazTech
It is a bibliographic and abstract database of the contents of Polish technical journals, indexing since 1998 articles from Polish periodicals in the fields of technical sciences, exact sciences and environmental protection.
CBOS
Fundacja Centrum Badania Opinii Społecznej is a specialized center that conducts opinion polls representative of Polish society on all major social, political, and economic issues.
Eurostat
The European Statistical Office produces statistical forecasts and analyses for the European Union area, covering topics from regional development and the natural environment to the economy and foreign trade.
GUS
It is the information portal of Statistics Poland (GUS), offering a wide range of statistical data on various aspects of Poland’s socio‑economic life, with indicators available at both regional and national levels and in long time series for trend analysis.
KNF
The Polish Financial Supervision Authority oversees the banking sector, capital market, insurance and pension sectors, as well as payment institutions, payment service offices, electronic money institutions and the cooperative savings and credit union sector.
Sejm of the Republic of Poland
The website provides information about the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, its structure and activities, committee meetings, etc. The Internet System of Legal Acts database contains bibliographic records and full texts of legal acts published in the Journal of Laws and the Polish Monitor.
NBP
The website provides access to legal acts and documents related to the activities of Narodowy Bank Polski, as well as its publications such as bulletins, guides, reports and analytical studies.
Google Scholar
It is an online search engine used to search databases containing various scholarly publications (articles, books, conference papers, etc.) across many fields of knowledge, allowing you to find full‑text PDF articles as well as citations.
FAQ
Books can be borrowed directly at the library or ordered online via the library catalog. For online orders, books are ready for pickup within 48 hours and will be kept for you for up to 7 days.
If you are a student or a postgraduate/MBA participant at our university, you can borrow up to 10 books at the same time. Students and participants from other Merito universities can borrow up to 5 items.
You can extend the due date by logging in to your account in the library system, provided the book has not been reserved by another user.
Books can be returned in person at the library or by placing them in the library book drop.
Yes. Books that are currently on loan can be reserved online, and when the book is returned, you will be notified by email.
People from outside the university can use the library resources on site in the reading room, but borrowing is reserved for students and staff. For details, you can ask directly at the library.
The password for your library account can be reset by contacting the library staff or by using the password recovery option on the login page of the library system.
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