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Reading rooms

The university library consists of five reading rooms spread across the campus grounds between Innstrasse and the river Inn.

Virtual tour of the library's reading rooms

By clicking on the map symbol at the top right of the tour, you can virtually go directly to and visit the desired reading room.

Workspaces and occupancy

The reading rooms together have more than 1300 workspaces. The occupancy 'traffic light' shows how many workspaces are available in the individual reading rooms at the current time.

Most of the workspaces are for quiet individual work and can be accessed freely. Carrels, 46 workspaces in lockable cubicles spread across all reading rooms, are subject to reservation. The University Library also provides group work areas with around 90 desks in which the quiet requirement is cancelled. The Central Library has the most group study areas with the study room, the study booths and the Library Lounge. The Computer Science/Mathematics Reading Room and the Juridicum Reading Room each have a group study room that can be reserved.

Specialised focus

In the reading rooms, specialised literature for specific academic subject areas is available for use on site or for loan.
In the Central Library, the majority of literature in the humanities and social sciences can be found. The economics reading room, the informatics/mathematics reading room and the Juridicum reading room hold specialised literature according to their names. Some of the specialised legal literature can be found in the Nikolakloster reading room. The specialised literature for linguistics and literature is also located there.

Lending & information

Each reading room has a counter in the entrance area for borrowing and returning items. The staff at the circulation desks are happy to provide information on using the library and researching literature. For more in-depth consultations, we recommend visiting the information desk in the Central Library.

The 5 reading rooms

Innstraße 29, 94032 Passau
Telephone lending desk: +49 (0)851/509-1610

Building plan: Entrance level / upper floor

Subject specialisation: General, Humanities and Social Sciences (Faculty HuCu, Faculty SoEd)
Detailed overview of the subject-specific organisation

Collection area for stacks, local lending (OLV) and interlibrary loan media: Entrance area (ground floor)
Carrels (17): Gallery of the reading room (upper floor), reservation on request at the circulation desk
Parent-child room: Foyer (ground floor), reservation on request at the circulation desk
Open stacks: Book tower, front area of the stacks (basement), study room (ground floor), reading room (upper floor)
Photocopier (2): near the entrance to the book tower (ground floor)
Textbook collection: front area of reading room (upper floor)
Readers for microforms: Scan box in the reading room (upper floor), reservation on request at the circulation desk
Readers for the visually impaired: Scan box in the reading room (upper floor), reservation on request at the circulation desk
Library Lounge: Upper floor
Scanner (3): Near the entrance to the book tower (ground floor), scan box in the reading room (upper floor)
Lockers (357): Foyer (ground floor)
Course reserves: Study room (ground floor)
ZB seminar room: Upper floor
Periodicals shelves: Reading room foyer (upper floor)
Newspapers: Library Lounge (upper floor)
Central information desk: Reading room entrance area (upper floor)

Kontakt

Michael Lemke
Michael Lemke
Room ZB 314
Innstraße 29
Phone: +49(0)851/509-1607
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Consultation hours: Nach Vereinbarung
Utta Materny
Room ZB 113
Innstraße 29
Phone: +49(0)851/509-1618
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Consultation hours: tägl. 8.00 - 12.30

Building Nikolakloster, NK
Innstraße 40, 94032 Passau
Telephone lending desk: +49 (0)851/509-1611

Building plan: Entrance level / upper floor / basement / all floors

Subject specialisation: Literature and Linguistics (Faculty HuCu, Faculty SoEd), Law (Faculty of Law)
Detailed overview of the subject grouping
Overview of the total juristic holdings

Book boxes (4): On request at the circulation desk
Double carrels (4): Upper floor, reservation on request at the circulation desk
Photocopier (2): Room near the textbook collection (entrance level)
Textbook collection: Entrance level
Scanner (2): Room near the textbook collection (entrance level)
Lockers (184): NK foyer between reading room and cafeteria (ground floor)
Course reserves: Entrance level
Journals shelves: Entrance level

Kontakt

Dr. Cornelia Bögel
Dr. Cornelia Bögel
Room ZB 222c
Innstraße 29
Phone: +49(0)851/509-1637
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Petra Putz
Room ZB 324
Innstraße 29
Phone: +49(0)851/509-1665
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Building Economics & Business Administration, WIWI (Wirtschaftswissenschaften)
Innstraße 27, 94032 Passau
Telephone lending desk: +49 (0)851/509-1612

Building plan: Entrance level / upper floor

Subject specialisation: Economics & Business Administration (Faculty of Busi­ness, Eco­nomics and Infor­mation Systems)

Carrels (4): Entrance level, reservation on request at the circulation desk
Photocopier (2): Scan box (entrance level)
Textbook collection: Entrance level
Reading terrace: Access via reading room (entrance level)
Scanner (2): Scan box (entrance level)
Lockers (184): Entrance area of the reading room, and room near cafeteria (ground floor)
Course reserves: Entrance level
Terminals for Refinitiv Eikon (2): Entrance level
Journals shelves: Entrance level

Kontakt

Maria Hochecker
Maria Hochecker
Room ZB 222a
Innstraße 29
Phone: +49(0)851/509-1606
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Verena Wilhelm
Room WIWI 231
Innstraße 29
Phone: +49(0)851/509-1624
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Building Informatics and Mathematics, IM
Innstraße 33, 94032 Passau
Phone lending desk: +49 (0)851/509-1613

Building plan: Entrance level / Upper floor

Subject specialisation: Mathematics and informatics (Faculty IM), natural sciences

Carrels (6): Upper floor, reservation on request at the circulation desk
Group working space with 8 desks: Entrance are of the reading room (entrance level)
Copiers (1): Entrance are of the reading room (entrance level)
Textbook collection: Entrance level
Scanner (1): Entrance are of the reading room (entrance level)
Lockers (120): Near building entrance (ground floor)
Course reserves: Entrance level
Journals shelves: Entrance level

Kontakt

Dr. Thomas Nachreiner
Dr. Thomas Nachreiner
Room ZB 235b
Innstraße 29
Phone: +49(0)851/509-1608
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Sonja Wildbihler
Room IM 145
Innstraße 29
Phone: +49(0)851/509-1671
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Building Juridicum
Innstraße 33, 94032 Passau
Phone lending desk: +49 (0)851/509-1613

Building plan: Entrance level / Level 1 / Level 2 / Level 3

Subject specialisation: Law (Faculty of Law)
Overview of the juristic holdings

Book boxes (6): Auf Anfrage am Ausleihschalter
Carrels (11): Ebene 3, reservation on request at the circulation desk
Group study room with 8 desks: In the reading room, near the textbook collection (entrance level)
Copiers (1): Entrance level
Textbook collection: Entrance level
Scanner (2): Level 1 and 2
Schließfächer (198): Entrance area of the reading rooms (entrance level)
Course reserves: Entrance level
Journals shelves: Entrance level

Daniela Müller
Room JUR 051
Innstraße 29
Phone: +49(0)851/509-1657
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Genoveva Lorenz-Endl
Room JUR 051
Innstraße 29
Phone: +49(0)851/509-1619
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