Due to a police closure of Josefsplatz, the State Hall will open on Tuesday, October 21, starting 12 noon only.
The Augustinian Reading Room will not open until 12.30 p.m. on this day.
The reading room of the Map Collection will not open until 12 p.m. on that day.
Due to a police closure of Josefsplatz, the State Hall will open on Wednesday, October 22, starting 12 noon only.
The Augustinian Reading Room will be closed on this day. Reading activities will be relocated to the study reading room of the collection of manuscripts and old prints.
Due to an event, the State Hall will be closed on Friday, October 31, from 3 p.m.
Due to an event, the State Hall will be closed on Wednesday, November 19, from 12 p.m.
The reading rooms on Heldenplatz will be closed on Sunday, October 26 (National Holiday), Saturday, November 1 (All Saints' Day) and Sunday, November 2, 2025 (All Souls' Day).
The State Hall, Literature Museum, Papyrus Museum, Globe Museum and Esperanto Museum will be open during their regular opening hours.
The media revolution from analogue to digital taking place in the past decades has confronted libraries with completely new challenges. The Austrian National Library seeks to make use of the new opportunities offered by the digital media in the best possible way.
In the early 1990s, the first joint electronic library system was introduced. 1995 saw the beginning of the transformation of card catalogues into online databases. The retroconversion of the entire analogue catalogues of holdings was completed in 2011, and by 2015 all of the catalogues had been integrated into the QuickSearch search engine.
As early as 1995, the Austrian National Library also had its own website, which offers an ever increasing number of online services.
Since the Amendment to the Media Law was passed in 2000, electronic offline publications have been subject to legal deposit provisions, which since 2009 have also applied to online media; web archiving has become one of the Austrian National Library’s new tasks.
ANNO (AustriaN Newspapers Online), the Austrian National Library’s first mass digitisation project, went online in 2003. This virtual newspaper reading room will continue to grow by roughly one million pages per year.