Borrowing and Returning

Loans

The holdings of the Branch Library of Foreign Languages and Literatures and of the Library of the Centre for British Studies can be borrowed for 28 days at the self-checkout machines on the 1st floor. If there is no reservation on an item, the loan period can be renewed to a maximum of up to 84 days.

Periodicals and newspapers, the non-circulation collections in the reading rooms and items of particular value (published before 1921) are excluded from that service pursuant to the library regulations.

Book returns

Please return the items at the self-return machine during the opening hours of the Branch Library of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Beside the books of the Branch Library of Foreign Languages and Literatures and the Library of the Centre for British Studies, you can also return those of the Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum, the Branch Library Campus Nord and the Branch Library for Natural Sciences. Vice versa you can return books of the Branch Library of Foreign Languages and Literatures and the Library of the Centre for British Studies at the Grimm-Zentrum, the Branch Library Campus Nord and the Branch Library of Natural Sciences. It is not possible to return books of other Branch libraries.

Renewals

You can extend the loan period of borrowed items in your user account. Extending the loan period by phone is not possible in this Branch Library. At the self-return machine, you can also renew items of the libraries mentioned above after the maximum loan period, if they have not been reserved.