Unless otherwise agreed, the loan period is four weeks. This can be extended 5 times by a further four weeks.

However, you cannot extend the loan period if

• the loan period has already expired,
• the loan period has already been extended five times or
• the title has been pre-ordered by someone else.

Extensions can be made via your user account or at the lending desk - also by telephone or e-mail!

Borrowed media can be returned to the lending desk during opening hours.

Outside opening hours, borrowed media can be deposited in the blue book return boxes. The return date is the day of posting. The book boxes are emptied every working day.

Locations of the book return boxes:

• in front of the main entrance of the university library (Hg/A, 1st floor)
• outside the main building (inner courtyard, library lift).

Reservations

Books that are still on loan can be reserved online via the library catalogue (OPAC). To do this, you will need the access data for your library account. We will notify you immediately when the book you have ordered has been returned and is ready for you to collect from the circulation desk.

Books from the stacks

Some books are housed in the stacks, which are not accessible to you. You can order these books via the catalogue and then collect them from the circulation desk the next day. (Example signature: FH 2001:3942<11>/1)

Journals from the stacks

Older, archived volumes of journals can be ordered at the circulation desk or by e-mail. The ordered volumes can be viewed one day after ordering, during our opening hours. Borrowing is not possible! Order journal articles

The University Archive archives valuable materials from all areas of the university. For example, we catalogue, store and secure matriculation records, student files, personnel files, staff and lecture directories, files and documents from the Rectorate, the departments and the university's central facilities.

In addition, materials from organisations and associations associated with the university as well as the estates of academics are also stored.

As soon as your files have been catalogued, they can be viewed and used by prior arrangement. The files can be viewed in the archive or at your workplace. To do this, you must complete the form for file retrieval. We will then organise the further procedure.

Only the office making the transfer is authorised to work with its own files. All information on the regulations can be found in Amtlichen Bekanntmachung 2012/01

Your duties:

• Determination and consideration of the retention periods of your documents, see download retention periods
• Contact the university archive to arrange an appointment for a preliminary discussion (46-2255)

In a preliminary discussion, we then check the archival value of your files together on site. If this is the case, the next steps are as follows:

• Compiling the files to be handed in (books are not archive material)
• Sorting out documents that have been filed more than once
• De-ironing files (removing paper clips and staples)
• Filling out the delivery list (download)

You can then arrange the transport with Department 3 and us and your files will be delivered to the university archive.
After checking the delivery list, you will receive immediate confirmation that your files have been accepted.