Readers may seek information on the library’s collections via the online catalogue and the tradition card files.

Online databases:

- The NMK Library online catalogue: the umbrella database for books, electronic documents, printed music and audio materials (post-1992 acquisitions plus recatalogued older holdings) :

• Articles from collective publications, above all materials from sessions of the Association of Art Historians (Stowarzyszenie Historyków Sztuki);
• Biographies and bibliographies of art historians, museum professionals, etc.;
• Bibliography of works by employees of the National Museum in Krakow.

Acquisitions from before 1992 are profiled in the following card catalogues:

• alphabetical – joint for books (up to 2006) and periodicals (ongoing)
• systematic for books (according to the Universal Decimal Classification)
• topographical for exhibitions, collections and auctions.

We recommend:

Online catalogues of Polish libraries

• KARO - Dispersed Catalogue of Polish Libraries
• NUKAT – Central Catalogue of Polish Academic Libraries

Online catalogues of foreign libraries:

• The European Library
• Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog KVK (worldwide libraries)
• Art Discovery Group Catalogue