Practical information

• General Information
• Computers - Internet
• Plan of the Library

General Information

A reading room

Opening hours: Monday to Friday 9-19 (July and August 9-17) The Library may be used by members of the Institutes of Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, as well as by individuals related to the Institutes who need the services of the Library for their studies and postgraduate research. Members of other Archaeological Schools and Institutes may also use the Library as well as individuals doing postgraduate research. Bags etc. may not be taken into the Library and can be left temporarily in the lockers in the basement. The guests of the Library are kindly requested upon every visit to sign their name in the guestbook. Smoking, food and drink as well as loud talking are not allowed in the Library No book may leave the Library. No book should be removed from the shelves unless a sign-out card is properly filled out and put in place of the book. Boxes with sign-out cards are available in the reading room of the Library. The tables in the main reading room on the ground floor are available to the readers The readers are kindly requested to leave all books and periodicals on the book trolley in the reading room after use

Computers - Internet

A reading room

The Internet may be accessed by our resident scholars from the 2 PCs on the second floor. The computers are for scholarly use only. Also wireless networks norlib1, norlib2 and norlib3 (no printer connection) are available for our resident scholars.  Ask the Librarian for the password. The two PCs on the second floor are also available for word processing. (MS Office2007 is installed as well as OpenOffice). The computers in the reception are only for consulting our databases.

Plan of the Library

Kitchen balcony

• Basement:
  
  Hall:
  Aa       Archaeology, general                                             
  Ab       Greece, modern 
             (Abh "Greece, modern Literature" & AbI "Literature translated into Greek": 
  deposited in the Norwegian Institute)
  Ac       Nordic Countries
  Ad       Restoration
  Ae       Byzantinology

Compact-shelf rooms:
Periodicals, CVA, Offprints, Reprints, Dissertations
Ba Bibliography

• Ground floor:
  
  Reception:
  Bc       Dictionaries 
  C.P. Cavafy Collection    
  CDs/DVDs                    
  Reading room:
  Bb       Reference books
  Bd       History, general                               
  Be       History, Greek                                  
  Bf        History, Roman                               
  Bg       History of religion                            
  Bh       History of civilization                      
  Bi        Theatre                                             
  Bj        History of music
  Bk       Films and history
• First floor:
  
  Scholars’ reading room:
  Cb       Congresses                                     
  Cd       Archaeology, theory and method
  Ce       Archaeology, Greek                        
  Cf        Archaeology, localities                   
  Ch       Architecture                                                                           
  Ci        Art, general                                      
  Cj        Painting and ceramics                   
  Ck       Art, small objects
  Cka      Underwater Archaeology
  Scholars’ office 1:
  Cl        Inscriptions and papyri                                          
  Cn       Greek authors (Apart from Aristotle who is placed in the 1. Floor hall) 
  Scholars’ office 2:
  Cna     LOEB - Greek authors
  Cnb     OCT Oxford Classical Texts - Greek authors
  Co       Philosophy   
  Cp       History of literature
  Cm      Philology
  Cv       Festschriften                           
  Scholars’ office 3:                         
  Cr       Museums                                                     
  Hall:
  Cg      Topography, Greece                                   
  Cga    Topography, Athens
  Cgb    Topography, Geography and Maps
  Cn      Greek authors - Aristotle 
                             
• Second floor:
  
  Hall:
  Large foliants                                                                       
  Dk       Archaeology, oriental
  Dl        Egyptology
  Db       Latin authors I                       
  Scholars’ office 4:
  Df        Numismatics                       
  Dg       Natural science and medicine                                         
  Dh       Technology                                      
  Di        Geography   
  Scholars’ office 5:
  Db       Latin authors II        
  Scholars’ office 6:
  Dba     LOEB - Latin authors                                             
  Dc       Archaeology, Italian                                                           
  Dd       Topography, Italian                         
  De       Etruscology
                              
• A Toilet is on the 2nd floor and a kitchen/balcony on the top floor  
• New books and periodicals are exhibited in the 1. floor hall