Humanities and Social Sciences Reading Room

The Humanities and Social Sciences Reading Room offers a wide and diverse collection of printed works and support in searching for information in the following fields: linguistics and literary studies, philosophy, ethics and religion, psychology, political science, sociology, social policy, social anthropology, media and communication, military science, educational science, human geography, history and archaeology, ethnography and folklore, digital humanities and environmental humanities.

The reading room's open-access collection includes more than 48,000 publications – current and popular industry literature, including encyclopedias, universal reference literature, and industry periodicals from the last three years. 

• Information services – reference and consultations
• E-resources and e-services
• Island of Personality – a collection of selected books from the private library of the outstanding Latvian poet and translator Knuts Skujenieks (1936-2022)
• Island of Personality – a collection of selected books from the private library donated by German literary scholar and librarian Paul Raabe (1927-2013)
• Training service in information search
• Overview of new benefits
• Thematic and new acquisitions selections
• Thematic developments
• Ukrainian Bookshelf – the collection consists of publications on Ukrainian history, culture and literature in the Ukrainian language

• Group work room (for 6–8 people)
• Group work room (for 12–20 people)