Overdue notices & fines
- Please pay attention to e-mails from the library! We will send you advance notifications by e-mail (to your university e-mail address) when your loan period is about to expire. Please not that this is not done for overnight or weekend loans. How do I get my university e-mails?
- You can log in to your library account at any time to keep an eye on loan periods. Library account login
- Did you know you can return borrowed media by post?
Please keep in mind, that
the library might demand that you return book before the loan period has expired if someone else requests the book. In that case, your renewal is cancelled.
You must return your borrowed media on time, even if the return date is during the semester break periods! In exceptional circumstances, you can extend your loan by calling the Central Library Loan Desk (phone +49 851 509 1628) during the semester break. For details, see Extending the loan period.
If you exceed the loan period, the University Library will ask you to return the item and charge a fine. The reminder with the fee notice will be sent to the address given in the Campus Portal as the contact address.
Failure to return a borrowed item on the due date will result in an overdue notice and a fine.
Fines
Stage | Penalty |
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1st notice | EUR 7.50 fine |
2nd notice | an additional EUR 10.00 fine on top of the previous one |
3rd notice | an additional EUR 29.40 fine on top of the previous ones |
Please note that the fines indicated above are cumulative: the fines imposed with the second and third overdue notices have to be paid on top of all previous fines!
Did you receive a fine and need to ask us a question?
You can reach the Overdues department by phone at +49 851 509 ext. 1656 or 1620 (daytime only). Alternatively, you could use the overdues contact form (in German), which is available around the clock.
How to pay your fines
You cannot pay your overdue fines in cash at the check-out desk; instead, you have to pay by bank transfer to Staatsoberkasse Landshut.
Users who do not act on a return notice will have their library privileges revoked indefinitely.
Staatsoberkasse Landshut
Bayerische Landesbank München
IBAN: DE75 7005 0000 0001 1903 15
BIC: BYLADEMM
Please indicate your name and your library number
See also the following legal notices: General Regulations on the Use of Bavarian Public Libraries (ABOB) dated 18/08/1993 (BayGVBl 1993, pp. 635 ff), Kostengesetz(costs act) dated 20/02/1998 (BayGVBl 1998 pp. 43 ff) as amended and Kostenverzeichnis(schedule of costs) dated 18/07/1995 (BayGVBl 1995 p. 454), as amended.
Returning borrowed items
Borrowed items should be returned to the same desk where they were checked out: the reading room desk for the reading room collection; Central Library returns desk for books from the closed stacks and borrowed via interlibrary loan.
All borrowed items, including those borrowed from the University Library and via interlibrary loan, may be returned to the Regional Library, Michaeligasse 11.
Returns by mail
All items can be returned by mail. Please send them to the parcels address:
Passau University Library, Innstr. 29, 94032 Passau, Germany
Avoid fines by sending your books back on time, taking into account the time the items will spend in the post (if returning by post).