There are 12 state scientific libraries, 473 libraries affiliated to universities and institutions of higher education, and 2600 public libraries. Websites of the libraries are mostly in Slovak only.

 

Scientific Libraries

• Slovak National Library (“Slovenská národná knižnica“), Martin (www.snk.sk)
• University Library (“Univerzitná knižnica“), Bratislava (www.ulib.sk)
• The Slovak Library for the Blind of Matej Hrebenda (“Slovenská knižnica pre nevidiacich Mateja Hrebendu“), Levoča (www.skn.sk)
• The State Scientific Library (“Štátna vedecká knižnica“), Banská Bystrica (www.svkbb.sk)
• The State Scientific Library (“Štátna vedecká knižnica“), Košice (www.svkk.sk)
• The State Scientific Library (“Štátna vedecká knižnica), Prešov (http://www.ds.psg.sk/prezenta/kvk-po)
• The Central Library of Slovak Academy of Sciences (“Ústredná knižnica Slovenskej Akadémie vied“), Bratislava (www.uk.sav.sk)
• The Slovak Medical Library (Slovenská lekárska knižnica), Bratislava (www.sllk.gov.sk)
• Slovac Pedagogical Library (“Slovenská pedagogická knižnica“), Bratislava (www.spgk.sk)
• Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information (“Centrum vedecko-technických informácií SR“), Bratislava (www.cvtisr.sk)

 

Some Academic Libraries

• Univesity Library of Matej Bel University (“Univerzitná knižnica Univerzity Mateja Bela, Banská Bystrica“), Banská Bystrica (www.library.umb.sk)
• Library of the Academy of Arts (“Knižnica Akadémie umení“), Banská Bystrica (http://www.aku.sk/en/kniznica.htm)
• Virtual Library and Comenius University Academic Library (“Virtuálna knižnica a Akademická knižnica Univerzity Komenského“) Bratislava, (http://vili.uniba.sk, http://vili.uniba.sk/AK/index_ak_e.html)

·         Library of the Faculty of Law of Comenius University (“Knižnica právnickej fakulty Univerzity Komenského“), Bratislava, (www.flaw.uniba.sk/kniznica/)

·         Central Library of the Faculty of Philosophy of Comenius University (“Ústredná knižnica filozofickej fakulty UK“), Bratislava, (http://vili.uniba.sk/FIF/ukfif.html)

·         Central Library of the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Comeius University (“Ústredná knižnica prírodovedeckej fakulty UK“), Bratislava, (www.fns.uniba.sk/prifuk/kniznice/)

·         Faculty Library of the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics of Comenius University (“Fakultná knižnica Matematicko-fyzikálnej fakulty UK“), Bratislava, (www.fmph.uniba.sk/mffuk/kniznica)

·         Academic Library of the Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University (“Akademická knižnica Lekárskej fakulty Univerzity Komenského“), Bratislava, (www.fmed.uniba.sk/kniznica/)

·         Library, Study and Information Centre of the Jessenius Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University (“Knižnica a študijno-informačné stredisko Jesseniovej lek.fakulty UK“), Martin, (www.jfmed.uniba.sk/novyweb/pracoviska/ksis.htm)

·         Central Library of the Faculty of Pharmacy of Comenius University (“Ústredná knižnica Farmaceutickej fakulty UK“), Bratislava, (www.fpharm.uniba.sk/kniznica)

·         Academic Library of the Faculty of Education of Comenius University (“Akademická knižnica Pedagogickej fakulty UK“), Bratislava, (www.fedu.uniba.sk/kniznica)

·         Library of the Faculty of Managment

·         Library of the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports of Comenius University (“Knižnica Fakulty telesnej výchovy a športu UK“), Bratislava (www.fsport.uniba.sk/a_kniznica)

·         Faculty Library of Evangelical Theological Faculty of Comenius University (“Fakultná knižnica evanjelickej bohosloveckej fakulty UK“), Bratislava
(www.fevth.uniba.sk/Kniznica/Kniznica.htm)

·         Library of the Roman Catholic Faculty of Theology of Comenius University (“Knižnica rímsko-katolíckej cyrilometodskej bohosloveckej fakulty UK“), Bratislava (www.frcth.uniba.sk/new/library/library.html)

·         Library of the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences of Comenius University (“Knižnica Fakulty sociálnych a ekonomických vied UK“), Bratislava, (www.fses.uniba.sk/kniznica/bookstore.htm)

• University Library System of the Slovak University of Technology (“Celouniverzitný knižničný systém Slovenskej technickej univerzity“), Bratislava (http://olib.cvt.stuba.sk)

·         Library of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the Slovak University of Technology (“Knižnica Fakulty elektrotechniky a informatiky  STU“), Bratislava (www.fei.stuba.sk)

·         Study and Information Centre of the Faculty of Architecture of the Slovak University of Technology (“Študijné a informačné stredisko Fakulty Architektúry STU“), Bratislava (http://web.fa.stuba.sk/kniznica)

• Slovak Economic Library of the University of Economics (“Slovenská ekonomická knižnica Ekonomickej univerzity“), Bratislava (www.sek.euba.sk)
• Central Library, Study and Information Centre of the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Bratislava (“Ústredná knižnica a študijnoinformačné stredisko Vysokej školy múzických umení“), Bratislava (www.vsmu.sk/Rektorat/kniznica.html)
• Library of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (“Univerzitná knižnica Vysokej školy výtvarných umení“), Bratislava (www.afad.sk)
• Library of Police Academy (“Knižnica Akadémie policajného zboru“), Bratislava (www.minv.sk/apz/)
• University Library of Slovak Medical University (“Univerzitná knižnica Slovenskej zdravotníckej univerzity“), Bratislava (www.szu.sk)
• University Library of Technical University (“Univerzitná knižnica Technickej univerzity“), Košice (www.lib.tuke.sk)
• Institute of scientific information and Library of the University of Veterinary Medicine (“Ústav vedeckých informácií a knižnica Univerzity veterinárneho lekárstva“), Košice (www.uvm.sk/kniznica)
• University Library of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University (“Univerzitná knižnica Univerzity Pavla Jozefa Šafárika“), Košice (http://library.upjs.sk/)
• Academic Library of  Gen. Milan Rastislav Štefánik Academy of Military Forces (“Akademická knižnica Akadémie ozbrojených síl gen. Milana Rastislava Štefánika“), Liptovský Mikuláš (http://aos.valm.sk/kniznica)
• University Library of Constantine the Philosopher University (“Univerzitná knižnica Univerzity Konštantína Filozofa“), Nitra (www.lib.ukf.sk)
• Slovak Library of Agriculture at Slovak University of Agriculture (“Slovenská poľnohospodárska knižnica pri Slovenskej poľnohospodárskej univerzite“), Nitra (www.slpk.sk)
• Institute for Science and Technology Information in Agriculture (“Ústav vedecko-technických informácií pre poľnohospodárstvo“), Nitra (www.uvtip.sk)
• University Library of Prešov University, (“Univerzitná knižnica Prešovskej univerzity“), Prešov (www.pulib.sk)
• Library of Catholic University (“Knižnica Katolíckej univerzity“), Ružomberok (http://kniznica.ku.sk)
• University Library of Alexander Dubček University (“Univerzitná knižnica Univerzity Alexandra Dubčeka“), Trenčín (www.kniznica.tnuni.sk)
• Library of City University (“Knižnica City University“), Trenčín, Bratislava (http://library.cutn.sk)
• University Library of the University of Trnava (“Univerzitná knižnica Trnavskej univerzity“), Trnava (www.truni.sk)
• University Library of University of Sts. Cyril and Methodius (“Univerzitná knižnica Univerzity sv. Cyrila a Metoda“), Trnava (www.ucm.sk/?stred=kniznica)
• Slovak Library of Forestry and Wood Science at Technical University (“Slovenská lesnícka a drevárska knižnica pri Technickej univerzite“), Zvolen (http://sldk.tuzvo.sk)
• University Library of University of Žilina (“Univerzitná knižnica Žilinskej Univerzity“), Žilina (http://ukzu.utc.sk)

·         Study and Scientific Library of the Faculty of Special Engineering of University of Žilina (“Študijná a vedecká knižnica Fakulty špeciálneho inžinierstva Žilinskej univerzity“), Žilina (http://fsi.utc.sk)

 

 

The University Library in Bratislava contains more than 2 million volumes and is the country’s most important library. The Slovak National Library, located in Martin, includes a collection of materials related to Slovak culture and history.

 

Some librarires are associated in Slovak Library Association (SLA) (www.sakba.sk) on independent, and voluntary bases. SLA among others aims to support development of libraries and their professional co-operation, raise a program of technical and technological development of libraries, support  modernising of library holdings, and a progress in the construction of library buildings.

Nowadays SLA comprises 30 scientific and academic libraries, 42 county, regional, municipal libraries and 11 special libraries.