Biblioteca Centrala Universitara Lucian Blaga, Cluj-Napoca

OPENING HOURS for the main building :

Monday - Friday: 8, 00 - 20, 00
Saturday: 8, 00 - 15, 00 (Reading Rooms I, II, III)
CLOSED on Sundays and public holidays.
1872 Establishment of the library.
1909 Inauguration of the new library location.

1920 19th of May - marks the inauguration of the Library and of the University, in the presence of the royal family and of the Romanian Government. The Library would be known from now on as the "King Ferdinand" University Library in Cluj. After 1920, the library collections were enriched by the donations of over 125 institutions and private individuals. One can mention the contribution of the Romanian Academy, the State Archives, the House of Schools, the Museum of the Romanian Language, etc.

1922 The most important and valuable donation is the one of the Moldavian scholar Gheorghe Sion. Between 1922 and 1923, he donated a large number (about 4500 volumes) of valuable books, reviews, manuscripts, engravings, paintings, photographies, maps, coins and medals, etc. The Gheorghe Sion' donation represents the golden archive of the Special Collections Department.

1934 The construction of the actual library building came to an end.

1961 Because of the continuous increase in the library collections and the lack of space to store them, a new and modern closed stack was built in 1961, with a storage capacity of 2 million volumes. The building of the new closed stacks is connected to the reading rooms and the old closed stacks.
2001 The first electronic review of the library was edited: Bibliorev.
2002 The total number of publications in the entire network (central building and the branch libraries) has reached approximately 3, 600, 000 volumes.
2004 - 2006 "Lucian Blaga" Central University, as member of a university libraries consortium, bought several scientific databases.
In the same period, there have been created CD-ROMs of our own bibliographical databases.