Library at the Institute of Zoology

ADDRESS:
1000 Sofia, Tzar Osvoboditel Blvd. 1, Fl. 2
Telephone: (+359 2) 988 51 15, ext. 700
Fax: (+359 2) 882 897
E-mail: marinska@zoology.bas.bg
Open hours: Monday - Friday 8:30-17:00 
 

Head of Library:

Margarita Marinska

Librarians:

Anelia Ilieva

Founded: 1947

COLLECTIONS

Subjects Covered: palaeozoology, zoology, parasitology, hydrobiology, ecology, zoogeography

Collections: 39445 

Books: 12792 

Periodical Publications: 26639 

Current Periodical Titles: 111  

Maps and Charts: 14 

Special Collections: atlases of ornithology, fauna, reprints, theses 

Private Collections: Cor. Mem. Prof. Aleksandar Valkanov, books from the library of the tzar family: Prince Alexander Battenberg,
Tsar Ferdinand I Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha, Tsar Boris III, Tsaritsa Ioanna, Princess Eudokia, Princess Nadezhda.

SERVICES

Catalogues: books (alphabetic and systematic UDC), periodicals (alphabetic),

Geographical card-index of fauna 

Reading-Room: 8 

Individual Loans; Interlibrary Loans; International Interlibrary Loans

Other Services: references