A leaflet about our library is available to pick up at the circulation desk or here.

About us

  Opening hours

  • Monday – Thursday: 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
  • Friday: 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
  • There are different opening hours in the summer holiday and exam period!

  • Current opening hours are on the homepage of the library website in the column on the left (PC version of the website) / at the very bottom of the page (mobile version of the website)

    Basic info

  • We are on the ground floor (Poříčí 5): from the reception turn left, room A 120 at the end of the corridor
  • The library collection is focused on Architecture, Art, Urbanism, and Civil Engineering
  • The library serves students and employees of the faculty as well as staff from the whole Brno University of Technology
  • Here you can find the library catalog, Primo
  • Do you have a tip for a book that we should buy? Please fill out our form here. We need at least the title, author, ISBN or link to the book (e.g. from bookstore)

Library collection:

  • Located in the study rooms (on the ground floor and upstairs) and in the storages

  • Contains primarily book publications and periodicals

  • The books in the free selection are arranged according to the principles of the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC); within each class, the order is alphabetical

    Especially outside the UDC are placed:

  • Catalogues of cultural events and large-format publications
  • Architectural personalities
  • Encyclopaedias
  • Dissertations and habilitations
  • Journals

    Thank you for being quiet and considerate of other library users:

  • Loud using of mobile phones is prohibited: please make phone calls outside the library. 
  • Eating and drinking are not allowed in the reading room! 
  • And please, do not give your winter clothes on our couch!
PRIMO web-scale discovery (also OPAC)

  • Here you can find the library catalog, Primo

  • A leaflet about Primo is also available in English on the circulation desk

  • How to switch Primo to ENG? ↓

    Primo is searching in:

  • Electronic information resources

  • Books and magazines from the BUT libraries

  • Theses and publications from BUT Digital Library

  • Selected Open Access information resources

    You can also (after logging):

  • Request books and renew the loan

  • View account status, currently borrowed books and fines

Library services

  • Loan services

  • Reference services

  • Acquisition of new documents

  • Ordering articles and other research material (Document Delivery and Interlibrary Loan Services)

  • Reprographic services

Facts & Figures

  • Cca 14 000 volumes of monographs and periodicals

  • More than 70 titles of the journals (Czech and foreign)

  • Hundreds of e-books & thousands of articles in the online research databases

  • We also have documents from the late 19th century and early 20th century (tens of pieces)

Study places

  • 51 study places (more on the ground floor, but seats with plug-ins are on the first floor)

  • 6 study places with PC (2 PCs with access to the online catalogue on the ground floor, 4 PCs for printing on the first floor)

  • Couch
Wi-Fi networks

  • 2 WiFi networks are available to BUT students and staff: "vutbrno" (unsecured) and "eduroam"

  • "vutbrno": you need BUTlogin and BUTpassword to log in

  • "eduroam": you connect there using BUTmail and BUTpin

Reprographic services

    Basic info

  • Reprographic services are self-service

  • Konica Minolta C227 colour multifunction printer: printing and copying formats A4, A3

  • Each user of the FA BUT has own account for printing, which must be charged before printing: at our faculty, it is not possible to print with cash charged on the ISIC card (as in canteens or other BUT libraries)

  • Money from the printing account can also be used for printing in the Computer Centre in Building B

  • You can upload the money for printing at the circulation desk in the library

    You can charge to your printing account at:

  • Mon, Wed: 9:00-18:00

  • Tue, Thu: 9:00-15:00

  • Fri: 9:00-14:00

    Printing

  • Prices of printing in our library: A4 B&W: 2 CZK, A4 COL: 6 CZK, A3 B&W: 4 CZK, A3 COL: 12 CZK

  • "How to print on FA?": the most important information can be found here

  • We have prepared really detailed instruction sheet for printing (including tips for printing selected types of documents), online preview here

  • please prepare before the first printing on FA BUT the very first password (you received in the e-application / at the study department) – this is necassary for using a faculty profile

    Copying

  • Copies are paid for separately at the circulation desk

  • Or we can take price of copies from your print account

  • Prices of copying in our library: A4 B&W: 2 CZK, A4 COL: 6 CZK, A3 B&W: 4 CZK, A3 COL: 12 CZK

    Scanning

  • 3 scanners: scanners are available for scanning (scanning on the photocopier is not possible)

  • 2 scanners are upstairs (classical A4, A3)

  • 1 book scaner is near the circulation desk downstairs (max A2), you need your own flash disc

  • Scanning is free of charge

E-resources (EIRs; on our social sites known as #EIZ)

EIRs (databases) contain a large amount of up-to-date verified information

    The EIRs are available through online access:

  • From computers on the university network

  • Using remote access via a proxy server or the Shibboleth system

  • Are also searched by the PRIMO search engine (but not 100%)

List of databases and all information: website Central Library BUT

    Relevant databases for FA BUT:

  • Avant-Garde and Architecture in Czechoslovakia 1909-1938 

  • Building Types Online

  • Le Corbusier Online

  • Art & Architecture Archive, collection Architecture & Design

  • ProQuest

  • JSTOR

  • Bookport (Czech database: small number of titles in English)

Leaflet E-resources FA VUT (BUT): a brief overview (about prepaid, commercial databases)

Useful documents

 

CATALOGUE BUT:

Didn't find the document you need?

Moravská zemská knihovna / Moravian Library in Brno is a library with the right of mandatory deposit copy (czech production). You are more likely to find the document here (catalogue).

Pre-register online here. Registration fee: Students (full-time study) 21-25 years: 100 CZK/year, 50 CZK/ half year

Contacts

Knihovna Fakulty architektury VUT v Brně
Poříčí 273/5
639 00 Brno

tel. +420 541 146 641
fa-knihovna@vut.cz

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