Browse the catalogue

The catalogue is available online at http://katalog.muni.cz . Enter your search words into the search field.

To narrow your search, you can use the following:

• Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT
  foot AND anatomy - This search will return a list of documents whose description contains all the words you typed. The operator AND is included automatically so you do not have to type it out.
  organic NOT chemistry - This search will return a list of documents whose description contains “organic” but does not contain “chemistry”.
  map OR plan - This search will return a list of documents whose description contains one or both of the words you searched for.
• Wildcard character * can be used to search for all potential word endings (organ* = organic, organs) or to account for variant spellings (categori?e = categorise, categorize).

Locating a publication

You can refine your search by using the filtering options on the right. Once you have found the right publication, you can check its availability.

Now you can see a list of items (“Holdings”) of the required publication:

Status

• In-house loan: These publications can only be borrowed to review them in the library study room. Readers cannot take them home.
• Monthly loan: Can be loaned out for one month.
• Semester loan: Can be loaned out for 90 days.
• Long-term loan: Not available. These publications are on loan to PhD students, MU lecturers and other staff.
• Outside Central Library: The item is held in a department library. See the “Collection” column.

Library

This tells you which faculty or library holds the document in question.

Collection

This gives you the location of the document in the library or another department:

• KUK – free access: The item can be retrieved from a study room.
• KUK – reposit: The item is held in an MUCL storeroom and must first be requested. Click here for the reservation guide.
• Department library name (Biology, Department of Chemistry, etc.). Click on the link to find information about the location of the item and department contact details (or click here for a list of contacts).
• KUK – long-term loan: Click on the link to fill in a form and request a short-term loan through the Campus Library.

Call Number

Publication location on the shelf. The call number consists of numbers that stand for the discipline and the first four letters of the author’s surname (or publication name). For example, an item with call number 547-ANSL discusses organic chemistry and the author is Eric V. Anslyn. For information on the subject number and colour labelling (colour stripes under the call number), see the location of subjects in the study rooms.