Current Library Services

Opening Hours
For further details, see Opening and Service Hours.

Book a Workstation
Restricted use of reading and workstations for university members only. Prior reservation required.

• Please use the Online Catalogue to search and order media.
• You may order media from all departmental libraries and the stacks for pick-up at any of our three library locations:
  Neues Palais, Building 9
  Golm-IKMZ, Building 18
  Babelsberg/Griebnitzsee, Building 5
• You may also order journals and items from the non-lending collections for copying or scanning.
• When ordering, please make sure to select borrowable media (request info = available) if possible. Students of the University of Potsdam may also order copies from the textbook collection (request info = textbook collection).
• Under "more about the title" you will usually find a table of contents, descriptions or reviews.  Use these details to make the perfect choice for your order.

• When ordering lendable media, you may select one of the three departmental libraries as your pick-up location:
  Neues Palais, Building 9
  Golm-IKMZ, Building 18
  Babelsberg/Griebnitzsee, Building 5
• Lendable media can be picked up to take away, while media from the non-lending collections are only made available for scanning or copying on site.
• Remember to bring your user card/PUCK when picking up media.
• Please note:
  Please understand that we can only admit a limited number of persons at a time. There will be an admission control, please plan for waiting times (currently 5 to 15 minutes).
  Please wear a mouth and nose protection while you are in the library.

• Please use the contactless return service at the self check-out counters at all three locations (in Golm the return machines are loacted in the foyer).
• You can return media in all three departmental libraries - regardless of the location you originally borrowed them from:
  Neues Palais, Building 9
  Golm-IKMZ, Building 18
  Babelsberg/Griebnitzsee, Building 5

• Students of the University of Potsdam may use the pay machines in the outer foyer of the IKMZ Golm or in Babelsberg/Griebnitzsee to pay fees with their PUCK. The pay machine at the Neues Palais is unfortunately not available at the moment.
• Payment of fees by bank transfer is possible. Please be aware of the longer processing time for bank transfers. Your user account will be credited only after the University Library has received the money. Please provide the following information on the transfer form:
  Account holder: Landeshauptkasse Potsdam
  Bank: Landesbank Hessen-Thuringia
  Account number: 7110402844
  BLZ: 300 500 00
  Purpose 1: 1006600000075
  Purpose 2: Name, matriculation number or ID card number PUCK
  BIC/SWIFT: WELADEDDXXX
  IBAN: EN09300500007110402844

• To a limited extend, university members may use reading and workstations in the library, which need to be booked in advance.
• Currently, carrels can be used at the Babelsberg/Griebnitzsee library only.

• Temporarily there is no access to the open shelf collection. Please use the catalogue to order media.

• New registrations and renewals of library cards are possible during opening hours.
• It is possible to order and pick up lendable media.
• Non-lending items and journals can only be ordered for scanning. Please bring a USB stick with you.
• It is possible to return media at all departmental libraries.
• If you have any questions, please contact us.
• At the moment, the use of workstations in the library is reserved to members and affiliates of the University of Potsdam. Thank you for your understanding.

Further information on the (digital) supply of literature for teaching in the summer semester can be found underNotes on Online Teaching 2020.

Our courses in the winter semester 2020/21 will be held exclusively as online seminars using Zoom.

All further events of the library are cancelled.