Moravskoslezská vědecká knihovna v Ostravě, Scientific library in Ostrava, Czech Republic

Moravskoslezská vědecká knihovna v Ostravě is the regional library of the Moravian-Silesian Region, founded in 1951 and publicly accessible. Its collection exceeds 1,200,000 volumes, covering all fields of knowledge including fiction, with a special focus on regional literature. Since 2007 it has also built a fund for visually and hearing impaired readers, with audiobooks, Braille books, tactile maps and subtitled films.

The institution was founded in 1951 and grew to become the primary scientific research center in the Moravian-Silesian Region. Over the following decades it expanded and modernized continuously to meet the growing needs of researchers and students.

The library's name since 2001 reflects its role as the regional library of the Moravian-Silesian Region, founded in 1951 as the State Study Library. It builds the Digital Library of the Moravian-Silesian Region and runs a web portal devoted to the writer and journalist Vojtěch Martínek. It also publishes regional e-books and audiobooks.

The library offers free internet access, including Wi-Fi, and lends both printed documents and Czech e-books; interlibrary loan and reference services are also available. Visitors with visual or hearing impairments can use a camera magnifier, a Braille printer and a postal loan service. The building is in Ostrava, and the library serves the whole Moravian-Silesian Region.

From 1962 the library ran a star-shaped circulation of medical journals between hospitals, later extended to technical periodicals and company literature. It has held the legal deposit right for all Czech periodicals since 1996, when its entitlement narrowed from full nationwide deposit to regional non-periodical publications.