The Library lends materials primarily for the needs of the University community, but we also offer our services to the wider academically interested public.
Interlibrary loan is a document delivery service that can be divided into two main variants:
Passive (receiving) interlibrary loan offers members and institutions of Ulm University as well as other authorized persons the possibility to order literature that is not available in the local stock of the kiz for delivery from the stock of another library.
In return, the active (lending) interlibrary loan service delivers literature from the kiz collection to other libraries, either in the form of a loan of the original medium or as a scan or copy for retention. The external library passes on the literature supplied to its own users.
With a reference collection, professors and academic staff in particular have the opportunity to place literature from the library collection that is important for their research at their workplace in the institute. However, reference collections can also be set up for non-academic institutions.
On request (order in the library catalogue), borrowing of media that are on a reference collection in an institute is also possible for other customers.
In course reserves (Semesterapparate), literature is presented that is recommended by lecturers as supporting reading for their courses (bzw. genau angeben: lecture tutorial etc.) and communicated to the kiz. In addition to literature in printed and electronic form, links for multimedia content (such as videos) can also be integrated.
Library materials are on open access in the readings rooms and stacks in the central library building (Bibliothekszentrale: BZ) and departmental library Helmholtzstraße (HH).
Workspaces are provided in all publicly accessible areas at both library locations. You can choose to study either in the open reading room area or in the stack aisles, and a limited number of personal study carrels are provided for quite study. In addition to these conventional work spaces, we provide a modern study environment with multimedia group work rooms and a lounge area.
