Petržalka Local Library, Vavilovova 24

The libraries in Jarovce, Rusovce and Čuňov were also part of the then organizational structure of this district library. The current name of the Petržalka Local Library was adopted by a resolution of the Petržalka Local Council in 1991. At the same time, its basic documents, the Charter and the Statute, were approved. Organizationally, the Petržalka Local Library is divided into ten branches serving children, youth and adults. One of the branches has a special scientific and professional focus.

As a universal public library with a local scope, it primarily satisfies the cultural, educational and leisure needs of the inhabitants of the city district, offers a safe environment for obtaining information and creates conditions for obtaining and making information available to the general public in all areas of life. The branches are located evenly throughout Petržalka and are available to the public in each of its locations. Today, the library fund consists of over 230,000 titles and is supplemented and updated annually by an average of 6,000 titles. Every year, the library provides its readers and visitors with an average of 60 types of periodicals. In addition to books, we offer rental of e-books and electronic readers. Rental services are fully automated, public internet and wifi zones are available at all branches. The Petržalka Library does not forget to revitalize and modernize the premises so that they meet the conditions for a modern and high-quality environment with rest areas.

In addition to building and making the library collection accessible, library activity is an important part of the work. Dozens of events, discussions, lectures and exhibitions take place in the library's branches throughout the year. The largest and most important library projects include "Petrekal's Consonations of Ferk Urbánek", a literary competition of beginning authors, a competition of school magazines entitled "Life through our eyes - journalists of the third millennium" or the project "Such was Petržalka", presenting the history of Petržalka from the first mention to the present through exhibitions and accompanying events (presentations, discussions, meetings). In March, we are implementing a successful reading festival Awake (s) with a book, intended for families with children, preschool and school youth and teenagers, in which we offer a number of activities, theater performances and readings in the background of working with a book. During the summer, we operate a successful summer Open air library on Tyršovo nábreží in Petržalka, which consists of a self-service library, programs for children and author meetings for adults.

The Petržalka Local Library is a budgetary organization of the city district. It has ten branches, five of which focus on children's readers and youth, four branches for adults and one specialized branch with professional, art and foreign language literature.

Library fund:

• fiction for children, young people and adults,
• professional and popular-scientific literature from all social and scientific fields (politics, science, art, sports, business, management, social work, etc.),
• books about Bratislava and the Bratislava region,
• foreign language literature,
• daily press, social and cultural magazines and professional periodicals,
• music

Library - information services:

a) basic services:

• lending services full-time (in the library),
• absentee lending services (outside the library),
• extension of the loan period of borrowed documents,
• oral factual and bibliographic information,

b) special services:

• reservation of required documents,
• preparation of ordered titles,
• interlibrary loan service,
• written processing of bibliographies and searches from the library collection,
• consulting services in the selection of literature, library services, services of other libraries in Bratislava,
• internet, Wi-Fi zone - providing access to external electronic resources,
• printing documents from a computer, the Internet,
• copying and scanning documents from the library collection, bibliobox,
• electronic magnifier,
• online catalog,
• discussions about books,
• author's discussions,
• information education of children and youth,
• reading support programs,
• literary competitions,
• fun afternoons and creative workshops for children,
• exhibitions and presentations,
• basics of working with a computer for seniors,
• book exchange, book carousels.

The branch of the Petržalka Local Library on Vavilovová 24 is intended for children, youth and adults. The book collection is arranged according to the age groups of the readers and thematically in these groups. In addition to traditional loans, readers have the opportunity to use additional services: Orders or reservations via the Internet - the reader logs on the library website and places an order if the book is available immediately or a reservation when the book is borrowed. Notification of the availability of the book will come to the reader by e-mail or in writing. As additional services, we provide information discussions and discussions on selected topics for primary and secondary schools.

WI-FI FREE zone.