Reading Room

Reading Room

The Reading Room forms the centrepiece of the library. Across its three floors you will find 200,000 documents covering the main fields of knowledge. You can remove these documents from the shelves yourself, view them and borrow them.

Floor plan

  1. Ground floor

    • Loans and information desks
    • Work desks and armchairs
    • Soundproofed telephone booths
    • Discovery Area
    • Photocopying facilities in the basement

  2. First floor

    • Rare Books Reading Room
    • Work desks
    • Carrels

  3. Second floor

    • Information desk
    • Media Centre
    • Work desks and armchairs
    • Carrels, audio booths and Music Room
    • Soundproofed telephone booths
    • Photocopying facilities

  4. Third floor

    • Information desk
    • Work desks and armchairs
    • Carrels
    • Family room
    • Soundproofed telephone booths
    • Photocopying facilities
    • Toilets
    • Water fountain

For everyone’s comfort

Silence appreciated

Let us be respectful of each other and limit the noise we make.

Bulky items

To protect our collections, bags and coats are not allowed in the Reading Room. Free lockers are available for your use.

Food and drink

Food and drinks are not permitted in the Reading Room. Only small transparent water bottles are allowed.

Subject classification

The Reading Room is arranged according to the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), which is used by many libraries around the world today. It subdivides all knowledge into ten main classes, represented by numbers.

000 Computer science and book science

In sector 000 on the 3rd floor, you will find books on the following disciplines: computer science, information science, media, library science and general encyclopaedias.

100 Philosophy

Sector 100 on the 3rd floor contains works on philosophy from antiquity to the present day. Here you will find, among other things, metaphysics, logic and ethics. It should be noted that psychology is also included in Dewey class 100. On the other hand, psychiatry, which is related to the field of medicine, is referenced in sector 600.

200 Religion

In sector 200 on the 3rd floor, you will find books on religions, textbooks on the theory and history of religion.

300 Social sciences

On the 3rd floor, social sciences are listed according to the different disciplines such as sociology and anthropology, political science, statistics, economics and law. Pedagogy is also part of this section.

400 Language

Sector 400 is located on the 3rd floor. It contains books and journals on languages and linguistics.

500 Science

On the 3rd floor, the sciences are listed according to different disciplines such as mathematics, astronomy, physics, chemistry, earth sciences, biology and zoology. It should be noted that works on psychiatry, surgery or pathology are to be found in the 600 Technology sector.

600 Technology

Sector 600 on the 3rd floor refers to applied sciences. It includes medicine, engineering, agriculture, management, chemical engineering including metallurgy and biotechnology, construction and also home economics with culinary arts as a sub-category.

700 Arts and recreation

This sector is located on the 2nd floor and contains documentation on painting, music, performing arts, photography, graphic and decorative arts as well as architecture and urban planning. On the ground floor, you will also find documents from the Dewey class 700 Sports and Leisure.

800 Literature

This area is located on the 3rd floor next to section 400 Language. It contains, among others, works of English, French, Luxembourgish and German literature.

900 History and geography

This area is located on the 3rd floor. The geography area is referenced by continents and then by countries, including Luxembourg in category 914.9. In the history sector, you will find genealogy and general biographies, history of the ancient world and history from the Middle Ages to the present day.

Books on the history of Luxembourg can be found in category 949.

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