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About the Libraries
The Weizmann Institute Library System consists of the Central Library (which serves mainly as headquarters providing administrative and professional services to all Institute Libraries as well as scientific information services to institute personnel), and four Faculty library branches:
The Goldschleger Library hosting the Life Sciences & Chemistry Library
The Benoziyo Physics Library
The Frankel Mathematics Library
It also includes several departmental collections.The Libraries are responsible for acquiring, collecting, processing, distributing, and storing all printed and multimedia material needed by the Institute's faculty and staff as well as licensing, implementing, managing and ensuring online access to digital sources such as electronic journals, series, e-books, databases, etc.
The librarians and information specialists assist library users in finding various types of information by using printed and digital resources, and using the material provided sophisticatedly.
The collections include books, bound volumes, current periodical subscriptions in printed form and an ever growing collection of online databases, several thousand current and archived electronic journals, series and e-books. The library also holds special collections.
Access to full text electronic journals can be made by using either the Library Catalog or the Journal/Series Manager(TDNet). In addition to full text access, the latter also enables searching the table of contents and abstracts of e-journals, defining personal profiles and current awareness.
Access to full text electronic books can be made by using the Library Catalog or the E-Books Manager.
The Libraries home page is the backbone of the Library's Intranet, which reaches out to library patrons enabling them sophisticated use of the library services.
Information resources, electronic ordering, and delivery of documents are embedded services.
It also provides computerized access to bibliographical information and holdings of books, theses and periodicals at the Institute and university libraries in Israel by using the Library Catalog.
WIS-Find, can be found on the homepage and allows users to simultaneously search different information sources using only one query.
Most library electronic resources are also accessible to Weizmann users from outside the campus using EZproxy or Secure ID facility.
The Weizmann Library System is part of MALMAD (Inter-University Center for Digital Information Services), which serves as the Israeli University Libraries' Consortium, and assists enriching Weizmann's electronic collections.
Library Hours
Central Library
Life Sciences and Chemistry
8.00 - 16.30 (Sunday - Thursday)
8.00 - 16.30 (Sunday - Thursday)
Mathematics 8.00 - 15.30 (Sunday - Thursday) Physics 8.00 - 15.30 (Sunday - Thursday) Entrance after hours, weekends and holidays to our Faculty Libraries ( Life Sciences & Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics) is permitted to Weizmann Institute scientists and students only by means of their Scientist/student employee card (serving as a proximity card). The card is also used to exit the library.
For Physics Library, a permission for entering the Physics Faculty building should be arranged as well.
Special Interest Collections
The Special Collections at the Central Library
Reference Books - The general collection of encyclopedias, directories, dictionaries etc. at the institute.The History of Science Collection - Mainly from Prof. Fritz Haber's Library donated to the Weizmann Institute in the mid 1930's by his family.
The Rare Books CollectionEinstein's Reprints Collection - Reprints collected by Prof. Einstein.
Many of them were written by well known scientists, some are Nobel laureates. The collection was donated to the Weizmann Institute on the occasion of the Applied Mathematics Department establishment in 1948. It was transferred to the Wix Library by Prof. C.L.Pekeris, first head of the Applied Mathematics Department.
Land of Israel collection - Books and journals in archaeology, history, geography, fauna and flora of the Land of Israel. The books were purchased from a donation by George Steiner and his sister Lilian Herzberg in memory of their parents.All the books and theses collections have been entered in the Library Catalog.
Most of the books from the above collections are not for loan but may be browsed through at the Central Library.
For details please contact the Central Library Desk/Tel. 3297/anna.ilionski@weizmann.ac.il
General Collections
Historical Jewish Press
The National Library of Israel and Tel-Aviv UniversityThe Historical Jewish Press site contains a digital collection of Jewish newspapers published in various countries, languages, and time periods, in their original layout. Full-text search is also available for all content published over the course of each newspaper’s publication.
Included are the following newspapers and more:
Ha-Yom (St. Petersburg), Maariv, Habazeleth, Hashkafa, Ha-Melitz, Ha-Magid, Ha-Zvi, Palestine Post, Ha-Zefira, Davar...For more information check at About the Site.