Library Information for Guests
Registration
A brief use of the library is possible without prior registration. If you wish to use our library’s rooms and resources for a longer period of time, please get in touch with the Institute Secretariat early:
Via mail/phone:
Augustinergasse 9
69117 Heidelberg
T: +49 6221 542200
Via email:
institut@ipr.uni-heidelberg.de
Besides the duration of your intended visit we require a letter of recommendation, information about your research project and your CV.
Library Organization
The resources of the library are organized systemically. They are spread out over a number of rooms due to the structure of the building. This site list (PDF-Version) provides information on the location of books and tells you which book numbers can be found in which room. This floor plan (PDF-Version) will help you to find the rooms. If you have any questions, please refer to library staff. We will be happy to help you.
Use
The library is publicly accessible. Please take note of our opening hours. Since we are a non-lending library, borrowing books outside the library is not possible.
Cafeteria
Food, drinks and snacks are served at the Triplex Cafeteria located opposite the Institute at University Square.
Catalogues
Since 1990, the library has been itemizing its resources comprehensively in HEIDI, the online catalogue of the Heidelberg library system. The platform is accessible from every computer without registration.
PC workspaces are available for conducting searches at the Institute. Publications dating earlier than 1990 are also recorded in an alphabetical card catalogue, while a comprehensive systematic card catalogue is provided for theme-related searches.
Copy machine
There is a copy machine in room 15 which you may use to make scans. If you would like to print something, we kindly ask you to use of of the copy machines in the University library.
Reading and workspaces
The library offers about 20 workspaces spread throughout the complex. There are several seats in the reading hall (room 21).
Registered guests will have a desk assigned to them for the duration of their stay.
PC workspaces
For searches in the online catalogue HEIDI, data base and internet research, the institute offers two PC workspaces in room 6.
Dummies
When removing a book or bound journal, a paper dummy must be filled out.
Orange cards are used as dummies, a sufficient stock of which is provided in every library room. Please complete the dummy in a legible manner and place it in the vacant spot left by the removed medium.
