Services & conditions

Our services for all users

6 branch libraries

Bags

  • Take your bag with you to the library or use our lockers.
  • You have borrowed a lot of books?
    Buy a carrier bag.

Water

  • Bring yourself some water.
  • Fill your bottle at our refill stations in the Humanities and Social Sciences Library or the LK library.

Study places

Individually, in a group, on the PC :
We have the right study place for everyone.

  • WLAN available everywhere
  • often with power connections
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Relaxation

  • Newspaper corner in the Humanities and Social Sciences Library
  • Armchairs in the LK Library
  • Snack corner in the Humanities and Social Sciences Library

Our services for different user groups

UDE members

Students

Library card:
UDE student ID

Loan period:
28 days

Campus delivery service (CaLD):
yes

Interlibrary loan:
reduced flat-rate charge: 0.50 € per order

Internal article delivery service:
yes

Personal locker:
yes, personal locker for four weeks, if available

Students in exams*

Library card:
UDE student ID

Loan period:
28 days

Campus delivery service (CaLD):
yes

Interlibrary loan:
reduced flat-rate charge: 0.50 € per order

Internal article delivery service:
yes

Personal locker:
yes, personal locker for four weeks or for 6 months, if available

Use of a reserved study place,
including locker or movable container:

yes, for 3 months, only in the LK Library, if available

* The status of use will be assigned on application exclusively to students of the UDE and is at first limited to 6 months.

To the application form

Doctoral and postdoctoral students*

Library card:
Library card or UDE employee ID

Loan period:
1 year, if there is no reservation

Campus delivery service (CaLD):
yes

Interlibrary loan:
reduced flat-rate charge: 0.00 € per order

Internal article delivery service:
yes

Personal locker:
yes, personal locker for four weeks or for 6 months, if available

Use of a reserved study place,
including locker or movable container:

yes, for 3 months, only in the LK Library, if available

* The status of use will be assigned on application exclusively to doctoral candidates and assistant professors of the UDE and is at first limited to 2 years.

To the application form

Employees and part-time lecturers

Library card:
Library card or UDE employee ID

Loan period:
1 year, if there is no reservation

Campus delivery service (CaLD):
yes

Interlibrary loan:
reduced flat-rate charge: 0.00 € per order

Internal article delivery service:
yes

Personal locker:
no

Students and employees of other universities

UA Ruhr Universities

(RU Bochum, TU Dortmund)

Library card:
Free library card;
registration required

Loan period:
28 days

Campus delivery service (CaLD):
yes

Interlibrary loan:
flat-rate charge: 1.50 € per order

Internal article delivery service:
no

Personal locker:
yes, personal locker for four weeks, just for students of the RUB or TU Dortmund, if available

Folkwang University

and the University of Applied Science Ruhr West

Library card:
Student ID or employee ID of the Folkwang University or the University of Applied Science Ruhr West; registration required

Loan period:
28 days

Campus delivery service (CaLD):
yes

Interlibrary loan:
flat-rate charge: 1.50 € per order

Internal article delivery service:
no

Personal locker:
no

Other universities

under the responsible body of the federal land of NRW

Library card:
Free library card;
registration required

Loan period:
28 days

Campus delivery service (CaLD):
yes

Interlibrary loan:
flat-rate charge: 1.50 € per order

Internal article delivery service:
no

Personal locker:
no

External users

Library card:
Free library card; registration required

Loan period:
28 days

Campus delivery service (CaLD):
yes

Interlibrary loan:
flat-rate charge: 1.50 € per order

Internal article delivery service:
no

Personal locker:
no
 

School students

Library card:
Free library card; registration required
Please note: information for minors

Loan period:
28 days

Campus delivery service (CaLD):
yes

Interlibrary loan:
flat-rate charge: 1.50 € per order

Internal article delivery service:
no

Personal locker:
no