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Information
Address : 2 Domokou St, Larissa
railway station
Tel : 210-8847561,
210-8846021
Opening hours :
Monday, Thursday, Friday
9:00-15:00, Tuesday,
Wednesday 9:00-17:00
The City of Athens
Central Library was founded in 1835 by the first Mayor
of Athens, Anargyros Petrakis.
A century later, in 1936, when the great personal
collection of Yiorgos Vlachou was purchased, the library opened its doors to
the public at the Old
City Hall, on Athinas Street, at Loudovikos Square, as
it was known then.
Since December 2002, it has been housed in a traditional
building at 2 Domokou Street,
at the Larissa railway station.
The Municipal Library carries approximately 55,000
titles. After the National Library and Parliament Library, it ranks third in
terms of significance and size, but first as far as newspaper archives are
concerned.
The collection includes a section on Athens
(photographs, books, postcards), rare publications of the 18th and 19th centuries
(which are not available for borrowing), Government Gazettes dating from 1833, Athens newspaper archives
dating from 1862 until today and 900 magazine titles dating from 1834.
Title processing is conducted in accordance with international library
science standards. The DDC (Dewey Decimal Classification) system is used to
categorise materials and the AACR2 (Anglo-American cataloguing Rules, 2nd
edition) system for cataloguing purposes. In recent years, it has begun to
automate titles using National Documentation Centre AVEKT 5.5 programme.
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Borrowing
All residents of the City of Athens,
as well as other Attica municipalities, are
permitted to borrow books. All materials are loaned out except for reference
books, rare publications and large titles.
Readers can borrow up to two books for a period of 15 days, with the possibility
of a one-week extension, on the condition that they become a member of the
library.
