Borrowing and Reserving

• lendable holdings and holdings from the textbook collection (for students of the UP). It is not possible to order a book to the check out desk of the actual location of the media. Please take these media off the shelf yourself.
• holdings from the University Library stacks

What can you not order?

• You cannot order media from the non-lending collection (including journals). Media from this collection can be made available for in-house use in a departmental library.
• A few valuable or historical holdings of the University Library cannot be ordered via the online catalogue. Please contact the information desk of one of our departmental libraries for more information on how to get access to these materials.

• We will send you an email once the order is ready for pick up or in-house use. This service is non-binding.
• Orders from departmental libraries and the stacks to another location are usually completed within 48 hours at the latest.
• Stack holdings at the location in the Golm and Babelsberg/Griebnitzsee libraries (if ordered at least one hour in advance) are available: Mon - Fri: 9:00, 12:00 and 15:00.

Please note:

• Items of the non-lending collection can only be used within the library.
• Orders are available for pick up at the circulation desk of the departmental library of your choice for 7 days.

• Holdings from the departmental libraries and stacks that are currently on loan to another user can be reserved.
• You cannot reserve media from the non-lending collection (including journals).

If a reservation is ready for you to pick up, you can see this in your user account under the "Items Loaned out" tab.

• We will send you an email informing you that the reserved item is ready for pick-up at the location you have specified. Reservations are processed right away when the media are returned. (We cannot guarantee that the item will be returned on time.)
• Reservations are typically held for 7 days at the circulation desk of the pick-up location you specified.