Guide for New and Visiting Faculty

Manuscripts and Archives Sunday-Thursday 09:00 -15:30
Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts
Newspapers and Periodicals
(current)
Edelstein Collection
Sunday & Wednesday
Monday, Tuesday &
Thursday
Sunday-Thursday
Monday, Tuesday and
Thursday
09:00 -17:00
09:00 -15:30
09:00 -16:00
10:00 -16:00
Laor Cartographic Collection Sunday-Thursday 09:00 -15:00
Music Reading Room
Photocopy Service:
Sunday-Thursday
Friday
09:00 -15:00
09:00 -12:45
Regular copies and orders Sunday-Thursday 09:00 -16:00
Microfilm copies (immediate) Sunday-Thursday 09:00 -15:00
The Library for Humanities and Social Sciences
Housed in the Bernard M. and Louis M. Bloomfield Library Building on the Mount Scopus
campus, the Library contains the combined collections of all departments in the Faculties of
Humanities and Social Sciences and the School of Business Administration. It numbers more
than 800,000 volumes and 9,000 periodicals.
Borrowing privileges and access to on-line databases are extended to students, faculty
and employees of the Hebrew University. Visiting faculty may use the circulation services
upon presentation of their identification cards to the Circulation Librarian.
Library hours during the academic year: S-W 9:00-21:45, Th 9:00-19:00. (Library hours
are subject to change.) Tel. Circulation: 5882124/5; Library Director: 5882139; Reference:
5882133. Web site: www.mslib.huji.ac.il
The Bernard G. Segal Law Library
The oldest and largest of the law libraries in Israel, the Segal Library is housed in the
Wolffsohn Building on Mount Scopus. This historic landmark was the pre-1948 home of the
Jewish National and University Library, and was dedicated as the Law Library when the
Mount Scopus campus was reopened after the 1967 Six-Day War. The Library collection
includes some 300,000 volumes, 1,500 periodicals and serial publications, and access to
numerous legal databases, both foreign and Israeli.
Library hours: S-W 9:00-20:00, Th 9:00-18:00. Tel. 5882587 (Circulation Desk); Library
administration: 5882543; E-mail: lawlib@mscc.huji.ac.il; Web site:
http://micro5.mscc.huji.ac.il/~lawlib/
The Zalman Aranne Education Library, The Moses Leavitt Library of Social Work, and
The Melton Library and Pedagogic Centre for Jewish Education
The three libraries, Education, Jewish Education and Social Work, amalgamated in July,
2003, to form a unified library at the Mount Scopus campus, as part of the Libraries Authority.
The multi-disciplinary collections include education, social work, and related fields such as
psychology psychotherapy, sociology and anthropology, connected to different age groups
and population types. The unified library holds some 200,000 books and an extensive
collection of multimedia resources, such as videocassettes and educational games. The
Jewish Education Library houses one of the most comprehensive collections of publications
and audiovisual materials in the field of Jewish education. It includes textbooks for Hebrew
language instruction and Jewish studies in Israel and the Diaspora. As an aid to the
student, academic staff and researcher, the library holds some 800 current journals. Many of