The Botany Library and the Botanical Garden in Cluj

The paper presents the history and activity of one of smallest branch libraries of the “Lucian Blaga” Central University Library in Cluj, the Botany Library. The history of this branch institution has been closely intertwined with the history of the Botanical Garden in Cluj, which after several attempts was finally arranged in its present location after 1919. The Botany Library – with its 15,500 volumes of books, 10,000 volumes of periodicals and a valuable collection of offprints, having only one librarian – is a useful research area for Romanian and foreign professors, students and researchers alike.

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