Course Reserves and Personal Reserves

Course Reserves

Information for Students

In the temporary reserve collection, lecturers have compiled the relevant books for their courses. To ensure that as many students as possible have access to this literature, the titles in the temporary reserve collection are not available for loan.

In the Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm Zentrum, temporary reserve collections are located opposite the information desk on second through fourth floors. Additional semester reading lists can be found in the corresponding branch libraries.

Information for Lecturers

If you, as an lecturers at Humboldt University of Berlin, would like your students to compile literature for your courses in a temporary reserve collection, please send this completed form (German only) with your literature requests to ub.semesterapparate@hu-berlin.de in a timely manner before the start of the semester.

Personal Reserves

The literature in the Personal Reserves Collection ("Handapparat") is not made available in the Grimm-Zentrum or at other branch libraries. This is kept for an extended period of time at the workplace of the specified professor or person in charge.

Their contact details (secretariats) can be found in the Central Information System (ZIS) of the HU or in the overview of all faculties and institutes. Please contact the secretariat or the responsible student assistant directly.

Background:

The books in the Personal Reserve are the property of the university and belong to the holdings of the university library. They are placed outside the library or in project rooms at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin for a longer period of time because they were acquired by chair holders from appointment, third-party funding or other project funds and are available in the respective department or institute for their research work.