Loan Periods
The loan period for most of our media/books is four weeks. The loan period is automatically renewed for two additional weeks with each renewal, provided that no reservation has been placed on the item. Students and staff of Bayreuth University may renew items up to a maximum of twenty times, while external users may renew items up to a maximum of four times.
Not all items have the same loan periods. If you are unsure, please check your library account in the UB Catalogue. There you will find an overview of checked out, ordered and reserved items. The loan periods for interlibrary loan items can usually only be renewed twice.
Renewals cannot be carried out independently via your library account.
Exceptions:
Textbook Collection
Students may borrow all items from the textbook collection for four weeks. The loan period can be renewed up to twenty times, provided that no reservation has been placed on the item by another student.
The shortened loan period for staff of the University of Bayreuth and external users is two weeks. The loan period can automatically be renewed up to four times if there is no reservation. It is not possible for staff of the University of Bayreuth and external users to reserve media from the textbook collection.
The following locations label the textbook collection:
- 17 (Departmental Library NW I)
- 32 (Departmental Library RW)
- 54 (Departmental Library GEO)
- 82 (Departmental Library NW II)
- 107 (Main Library)
- 36 (Departmental Library LEG, location Kulmbach)
Departmental Library Law and Economics
Location 31
Items of this location may only be borrowed by academic staff of the University of Bayreuth, a short term loan for other user groups is not possible.
Course Reserve Collection "Ausleihtheke"
Users of all groups may borrow up to a maximum of 5 items for 2 hours for usage in the Departmental Library Law and Economics.Reference Collection
The main part of our collection is freely accessible in the reading rooms and may be borrowed according to the regular conditions. Still there are certain items, which are labeled for reference use only and have to remain in the library. These include e.g:.
- items from course reserve collections
- items which are labeled with the locations 104/105/106/109 (Main Library), 84 (NW II), 86 (NW I) and 37 (LEG)
- current issues of journals (partly also bound periodicals, please ask the circulation desk in question)
- items in the Departmental Library RW with location 31 (exception for employees)
- encyclopedias and dictionaries
- loose-leaf editions
The library staff may grant an exception in justified cases. Current issues of journals and loose-leaf editions are excluded.
When granted a special loan period for these items, please ensure to return the items on time, as in this case a reminder fee will be issued immediately. Please return the items to the departmental library, in which they belong.