Nikolakloster reading room • University of Passau

Building Nikolakloster, NK
Innstraße 40
94032 Passau
Phone +49851/509-1611
Opening hours / Show free seats in the reading rooms

Map of all reading rooms
Floor plans: basement entrance level upstairs
Floor plan compact

Holdings and Equipment

Ground floor (entrance level)

General and Comparative Literary Studies (60/EA,EC), Textbook Collection (17/E,G,H,I), Reserve Collection, journals and periodicals for the current year (bound annual volumes are located in the relevant book section)

Upstairs

English and American Studies, (65/HD-HU), Romance Studies (66/IB-IX), large-format books (13/G,I)

Basement

General and Comparative Linguistics (61/EE-EU), German Studies (GA-GO);
Law (JUR Library reading room holdings): Criminal Law (31/PH), General Theory of the State (31/PK), Constitutional Law (31/PL), Public Law journals (31/PM), Administrative Law (31/PN), Tax Law (31/PP), Social Law (31/PQ), Data Processing and Law (31/PZ); additional literature from the Law Library reading room holdings (shelf marks starting with 33/P), loose-leaf editions

Overview of all Law Library holdings

Information

For enquiries related to the library, literature search, book locations, borrowing rules, interlibrary loans or our electronic services, contact the Nikolakloster Library helpdesk.

Reading desks

There are 245 desk spaces in the reading room.

Carrels

Eight reading desks in four lockable cubicles upstairs; these are available to doctoral and postdoctoral researchers upon registration.

Postgraduate carrel regulations (German)

Carrel application

Online with your own device

The reading rooms and other freely accessible rooms (group study rooms, library lounge, learning room central library) are equipped with WLAN routers. For WLAN access, eduroam must be installed. The ZIM user name is required for login. Non-university members cannot use the university WLAN.

BayernWLAN - comes with free login - is accessible in all reading rooms. Be aware: you do not have acces to licensed e-ressources. Computer, internet, and wi-fi

Search Stations

There is at least one search station in every single reading room - without need to login.

Access the Passau Search Portal (search, request, renewal and reservation functions)
Access to databases, e-books and e-journals. Download to a USB-Stick or print on a Campus-Drucker. Copiers, scanners, printers

ZIM-Pool-PC

There ist at least one ZIM-Pool-PC in every single reading room. The PC ist exactly equipped as the devices in the Universities's PC-Pools. Login with ZIM user name.

Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi access is available in the Central Library and all other reading rooms.

Accessing the network with a mobile device

Access Problems: ask ZIM-Support

Copiers and printers

Printer-copiers are located on the ground floor
Scan_Box in the upstairs glass cubicle

Lockers

There are 184 electronically operated daytime lockers. You need your CampusCard to use these. Like the coin-operated lockers, they are free to use. However, to discourage permanent use of these lockers, you will be charged a minimum of 5 euros if the locker is not emptied by the closing time of the relevant reading room.

How to use the lockers and locker regulations

Longer-term lockers for students writing their dissertation or thesis are available free of charge but in very limited supply. More Information.

Bags/rucksack policy

You may not take any bags or rucksacks/backpacks, etc. into the reading room. What kinds of bags are permitted in the reading rooms?

Mobile phone policy

Mobile phones must be set to 'silent mode' while in the library. You may not make phone calls or listen to voicemail messages. You are allowed to receive text messages, but only with the phone set to 'silent mode' (i.e. no acoustic notifications).

Food and drink

You may not consume food or beverages in the reading room. However, you are allowed to bring drinking water onto the premises in a transparent, sealable glass or plastic bottle.

Behaviour while in the library

Library regulations

Break discs ("Pausenscheibe")

If you wish to leave your desk and intend to return later on, you should set a break discs to indicate when you left. If you do not return within the next 60 minutes, or if you do not leave a break disc indicating when you left, other users have the right to use your desk space, see Desk reservation discs to prevent permanent desk occupancy

Library regulations

The relationship between users and the library is governed by the General Regulations on the Use of the Bavarian Public Libraries.