Your student card is your library card. Other users need to present a valid ID. To register as a library user, please submit the completedregistration formto the issue desk of the library. With your library card, you can also use the services of the University Library and the State Library in Regensburg. The user ID is non-transferable. Once you have received your user ID, you are obliged to keep the library informed about your current address and email address.

As a service, you will receive the following information via email:

• Notifications that a book reserved by you is available and can be picked up
• Notifications that a book has to be returned or will be due shortly (no guarantee)

Our literature is structured by the „Regensburger Verbundklassifikation“ (RVK).

Every media item has a book number, which indicates its location:
• F 03/ Local identifier*
• UM 3000 Notation
• H155 Encoded personal name or book title
• -4(1)+3 -Volume(edition)+copy

• e.g. F 03 Seybothstrasse; F 01 Prüfening

All journals are arranged alphabetically by title and can be found on the lower level of the library.

• The current year can be found in the periodical display shelves in the basement.
• Journals of the past 10 years are located in the near-by shelves as bound editions.
• Earlier volumes can be found in the open stacks.

You can place a reservation on a book that is already on loan, in the catalogue (please also see our leafletRegensburger Katalog plus- only available in German). Conversely, other library users can also place a reservation on the books you have borrowed, so that you cannot renew the loan period. In that case, any renewed loan period can be shortened or cancelled.

Usually, the checkout period for books is 4 weeks. The first renewal is effected automatically and is valid until another library user places a reservation. A second renewal is possible in the catalogue under the tab “Account“ (“Konto“).

• Newspapers and journal issues cannot be borrowed.
• Books with the label “Wochenendausleihe“ or with a yellow mark can normally be checked out for the weekend (from Friday, 11 a.m. until Monday, 12 p.m.).

Please check your user account in the catalogue on a regular basis to avoid costly reminders. There you can find all information concerning your due dates.

Our return counter is located on the left hand side of the main entrance to the central library, in the passageway to the cafeteria. With our Self Check system, you can return your books on your own - even outside the opening hours of the library.

There are no fees for your registration or for using the library.

If a loan period is exceeded, the following fees are charged:
• 1st reminder for return of books €7.50
• 2nd reminder (additional costs) €10.00
• 3rd reminder (additional costs ) €20.00 + postage €3.50
• 4th reminder (additional costs) €30.00 + postage €3.50

The customer bears the costs for the replacement of damaged or lost media items. The value of lost items is estimated by the library. The library of the Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg applies the general library regulations of the federal Bavarian libraries(ABOB).