Main Library: Smart Return Shelf

Since the beginning of November, there is a smart return shelf in the Main Library. You can place borrowed media on the return shelf, to have them automatically returned. It is possible to return multiple items at once. It is, of course, still possible to return items at the circulation desk.

The shelf registers the items placed on it using their RFID-tags, reads the media numbers and transmits them to the library system in order to process the return. The returns are displayed on the shelf’s screen. It may take a moment for all returns to be listed.

Tips and further information:

• Please ensure that all the items are complete (including any inserts, such as CDs or DVDs) before returning them.
• There is no receipt when returning items through the return shelf. If you require a receipt, please return the items at the circulation desk and ask for a receipt. It is not possible to issue a return receipt retrospectively.
• You can loan items that have been returned through the return shelf immediately, if they are not reserved for somebody else, or an interlibrary loan item.
• Items without RFID-tags cannot be returned through the return shelf. Please return these at the circulation desk.
• Please return damaged items at the circulation desk.
• The return shelf is not a cloakroom. Therefore, jackets and bags must not be left there – also because any media inside the bags will otherwise be immediately recorded as returned by the device as well.

Please do not hesitate to contact us at the circulation desk, if you have any further questions!