Head of the Library: Simoneta Sokolova-Shopska
Address: 1043 Sofia, 15 Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd., Sofia University, Rectorate, 6th floor, office 191
Phone: (02) 9308 494
E-mail: libphil@libsu.uni-sofia.bg
Working hours: Monday – Friday 8:30 AM – 6:00 PM
The Philologies Library is the largest within the structure of the University Library. It was established as a faculty library in 1954 by merging the collections of several of the oldest seminar libraries at the university: the Slavic Seminar library (one of the richest and best-stocked, exceeding 1,900 volumes as early as 1905), the Seminar on Comparative Literary History (founded in 1911), the Seminar on Classical Philology (founded in 1909), the Institute of German, French, and English Philology (founded in 1924), and the Department of Linguistics.
In 1969, a large student reading room with 175 seats was opened as part of the library. After renovation and specialized equipment, it was relocated to its current space in 1980. In 2012, the reading room was fully renovated under the Regional Development Operational Programme. The reading room has open access and offers a vast collection of textbooks, reference books, and periodicals in various languages. Some notable editions include: Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics, Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, Linguistic Encyclopedic Dictionary, and more.
The library also houses donated personal collections by Prof. Mosko Moskov, Albert Koshelev, and Petar Uvaliev.
General Information
The majority of the collection is stored in the library archive and can be accessed upon request at the lending service.
- Reading room seats: 65 (open access).
- Catalogs available: Alphabetical, Systematic, Topographic, and the Electronic Catalog of the University Library.
Card indexes:
- Periodicals (без запетаии и точки накрая)
- Reference books
- Donations from the Swiss Embassy
- Donations from the Yugoslav Embassy
Collection – 200,000 volumes:
- Books
- Periodicals
- Bibliographic publications
- CD-ROMs
Library Services
- Publishing of successfully defended dissertations in the ProQuest Dissertation and Theses database. This database is fully integrated with the Web of Science and contains nearly six million dissertations from over 4,000 universities worldwide.
- Access to academic literature / Remote access to academic literature (Submit a registration request).
- Scientific publications of professors of the Faculty of Slavic Studies in the library repository.
- Archive of defended theses at the Faculty of Slavic Studies.
- Abstracts of dissertations defended at the Faculty of Slavic Studies.
“I have always imagined Paradise will be a kind of library.” — Jorge Luis Borges