Due to an event, the State Hall will be closed on Friday, December 12, 2025 from 5 p.m.
The reading rooms on Heldenplatz will be open during the Christmas holidays, with the exception of December 24 and 31 as well as public holidays. The reading rooms of the collections will only be open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. between December 27, 2025 and January 5, 2026.
Please note the opening hours in December and around New Year's Eve.
Please note the revised opening hours for the Map Department reading room on Thursday, November 27, 2025: 12 p.m. – 5 p.m.
The site at Heldenplatz is the central service facility of the Austrian National Library. Here you can find printed material published from 1851.With five reading rooms and 420 individual places to read in a stimulating atmosphere, it provides the perfect place for students, researchers and interested individuals.
Our reading rooms are air-conditioned for comfortable stay at the library and have subject-specific open-shelves (encyclopaedias, general sources and reference works, handbooks, bibliographies, specialist encyclopedias, specialist dictionaries and language dictionaries).
Furthermore, by buying a day ticket or annual membership card, you have complete access to our wide range of library services, to the Internet and to subscribed databases, as well as electronic magazines. Use our catalogue Quicksearch to search, view and order items from our main catalogue. Our librarians will be happy to advise and provide support with scientific research.
For detailed information: How to use the library
In person at the info-counter at Heldenplatz or via Live-Chat
Monday – Friday: 9 a.m. – 9.p.m.
E-mail: cim[at]onb.ac.at
Tel.: +43 1 534 10-444
Signal-Messenger: onb_infoservices.50
(or scan the QR-code on the right)
