Library

CAS Library

The Library of the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia is developing collections of printed and electronic resources in the area of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Balkan Studies in the modern and contemporary era. It aims to serve as a Balkan information center about major scientific forums in these fields which take place in Bulgaria, the region of Southeast Europe, and Western Europe. The library is an open-stack, lending facility, primarily designed for use by CAS fellows, but it is also open to the general public upon request. It provides library and reference services based on traditional and electronic information resources.

Collections

The CAS Library collections and services are mainly specialized in the sphere of the Humanities and Social Sciences with focus on the Balkan Studies area. CAS collections consist of: books and monographs; periodicals; reference collections; online academic databases; the offline database “The Balkan Bibliography 1985-2001″; special collections (monographs, articles, periodicals, bibliographical data, Internet resources) that were created for the purposes of individual CAS projects.

• List of the books available at the CAS Library
• NALIS Union Catalogue (CAS library catalogue is included in NALIS)