Since 5 December 2005, the library has been offering you a new service, initially in a trial phase: InfoChat. Here you can contact the Information Centre with your questions 'live' via the Internet without having to leave your desk.

You can access the InfoChat via the button on the right-hand side of our homepage.

The Branch Library for Computer Science in Fürstenallee will be closed from 27.12.2005 to 01.01.2006.

From 02.01.2006 we will be open again at the usual opening hours!

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Of course, you will have access to our electronic services such as catalogue, loan account, databases, reference works or electronic full texts via WWW on this public holiday.

We would like to thank you for your understanding regarding the inconvenience caused during the remodelling work and look forward to being able to offer you a more pleasant learning and working atmosphere.

Of course you have access to our electronic services such as catalogue, loan account, databases, reference works or electronic full texts via WWW during the closing times.

The library provides its users with new baskets for transporting books and other aids - such as notebooks - for use within the library.

In exceptional cases, the baskets located on the entrance level and in the specialised libraries can also be used outside the library. For this purpose, a deposit (library card or similar) must be paid at the local circulation desk.

Of course, you will have access to our electronic services such as catalogue, loan account, databases, reference works or electronic full texts via WWW on this public holiday.

Due to the ordinance on the levying of fees in the field of information, communication and media in accordance with §30 of the Higher Education Act of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia of 18 August 2005 (Geb-IKM NRW) , new lending period overrun and administration fees will apply for Paderborn University Library from 10 September 2005.

If loan periods are exceeded, a fee of 2.00 euros will be charged for each medium up to 10 days, 5.00 euros for each medium up to 20 days, 10.00 euros for each medium up to 30 days, 20.00 euros for each medium up to 40 days and 20.00 euros plus an administrative fee of 25.00 euros for each medium over 40 days.

If short-term loans are returned late, a fee of 2.00 euros will be charged for each day and each medium, and 20.00 euros plus an administration fee of 25.00 euros for each medium from the 10th day onwards.

Comprehensive information on fees and prices can be found at: www.ub.uni-paderborn.de/nutzen-und-leihen/gebuehren/

Due to urgent maintenance work, the Aleph services of the University Library Centre (HBZ) will not be available on Monday, 12.09.2005, from 15:00 to 17:00.

This will result in restrictions on the use of the following services:

• The HBZ union catalogue will not be available.
• It will not be possible to search the union catalogue via the Digital Library NRW.
• It is not possible to query availability in the electronic interlibrary loan system or from the databases.

We ask for your understanding.

Due to system work, our catalogue will not be available on Sunday, 11.09.2005 from 18.00 for approx. 9 hours!

The Locomotion - LOw-Cost Multimedia Organisation and ProducTION project was launched at Paderborn University on 1 July 2005.

Locomotion is one of a small number of projects sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the eLearning Services for Science programme, out of a total of 300 applications submitted.

More than 30 employees from science and administration are involved in the project. A special feature is the planned close cooperation between three faculties, the administration and the central operating units University Library and Centre for Information and Media Technologies.

The project, which consists of six sub-projects

(1) Project management
(2) Module and examination administration
(3) Knowledge organisation
(4) Skills development
(5) Organisational development
(6) Infrastructure development

is headed by the Chancellor and the Vice-Rector for Research and Junior Academics. The IKM Council is also involved in cross-institutional and university-wide issues in the field of information, communication and media (IKM). In this way, the project is directly anchored in the university management.

The aim of the project is to develop an adaptable process-based support environment for eLearning (in the sense of enhanced learning). Locomotion focuses on the processes of module and examination administration as well as knowledge organisation. The diverse eLearning activities that take place within these processes are to be technologically linked and organisationally supported by service units. The service units are to represent new, competence-based organisational units that enable the bundling of processes that do not yet exist or are distributed across different organisational units and are to offer integrated support functions for the processes mentioned as competent contacts.

• The Module and Examination Management service unit is intended to provide end-to-end organisational support for the planning and delivery of courses.
• The Integrated Knowledge Organisation service unit will support all functions for the production, publication, long-term management and development of media products.

By focusing on everyday processes, the increased use of eLearning, eTeaching and eCollaboration is to be achieved across the board, the quality of teaching, learning and testing is to be sustainably increased and the handling of the associated processes is to be optimised. To this end, three cross-sectional tasks are being implemented in accordance with the three perspectives of competence, organisation and infrastructure development.

The University Library is participating in the project as part of sub-project 3: Knowledge Organisation and here in the development of the above-mentioned service unit Integrated Knowledge Organisation.

Building on its "classic" core competences acquired and applied over decades in the field of commercial print media and, in recent years, increasingly in the field of commercial electronic information media, it will - also in the sense of the extended tasks assigned to it by the new administrative regulations of 31 March 2005 - develop an integrated knowledge organisation.03.2005 (§ 2.2) - to develop and productively implement a model that enables the collection and cataloguing of high-quality knowledge resources that are created at the university and appear "worthy of publication", and to make them available for science, teaching and studies on a long-term basis via document servers.

In addition, the University Library plans to make the knowledge resources it provides directly available for e-learning scenarios in the form of electronic seminar apparatuses.

The funding from the BMBF amounts to approx. 1.5 million euros for a three-year period. The Rectorate of the University is sponsoring the project with an additional 0.6 million euros. The individual institutions of the university involved in the project are also making their own contributions totalling approx. 0.8 million euros. The University Library is involved with one position, and the Rectorate is also sponsoring the activities of the University Library by providing half a position.

More detailed information on the project and its sub-areas: locomotion.uni-paderborn.de. Interim results will also be documented here in future.

Information on the progress of the funded project will be made available on the Internet portal for BMBF funding for new media in education: www.medien-bildung.net [Category: Projects 2005ff]

Contact person for the Paderborn University project: Dr Anke Backer - Backer@zv.uni-paderborn.de

Contact for the Paderborn University Library: Dr Dietmar Haubfleisch

Due to system work on Thursday, 14.07.2005, from 7:00 a.m. to approx. 8:00 a.m.
our catalogue, your loan account, electronic interlibrary loan, personal registration with the Digital Library and the Internet PCs in the library will not be available. However, it will be possible to borrow and return books.

Bertelsmann Stiftung and German Library Association (DBV) compare the performance of university libraries nationwide

In a nationwide performance comparison between academic libraries in the group of single-tier university libraries, Paderborn University Library has achieved 9th place out of a total of 26 libraries compared in this category and thus the best ranking among the participating university libraries in North Rhine-Westphalia.

This year, for the second time, the Library Index (BIX) measures the performance of academic libraries in terms of resources ("What infrastructure can the library offer for use?"), utilisation ("How are the services offered used?"), efficiency ("Are the services provided cost-efficiently?") and development ("Is there sufficient potential for necessary developments?"). The multidimensional ranking enables the libraries to compare themselves on the basis of key performance indicators and to learn from each other. 61 university and university of applied sciences libraries from various federal states took part in this year's BIX.

Paderborn University Library achieved the best position of all participating North Rhine-Westphalian university libraries in this "ranking" with 9th place. In the field of "Development", the University Library achieved a good 6th place, which shows that the University Library has the potential to adapt quickly to current development trends. A particular focus is on the provision of electronic holdings - a field that is becoming increasingly important. The Paderborn University Library invests 47% of its acquisition budget in the acquisition and provision of electronic media and services. This is by far the highest figure in this category.

The University Library has taken part in this voluntary nationwide performance comparison in order to determine where the library stands and to be able to better assess its own strengths and weaknesses on the basis of key figures and comparative results.

It does this in the knowledge that excellent universities need excellent libraries - service facilities that ensure the supply of the university, its research and teaching with the necessary information media - and that the performance and reputation of the library are essential building blocks for the performance and "image" of a university. For example, the university library can be one of the factors that play a decisive role for future students when choosing where to study.

The results of the BIX were calculated by the Institute for Applied Social Sciences (infas) on behalf of the Bertelsmann Stiftung and the DBV. This summer, the Bertelsmann Stiftung's funding of the BIX will end as planned, and the project will be taken over by its co-operation partner, the German Library Association (DBV).

Further information:

• All results and participants of the BIX 2005
• The results of Paderborn University Library in detail

Contact: Dr. Ulrike Hesse

The Business, Economics and Social Sciences Library is currently being modernised.

During the work phase, which is expected to last until the end of October, some of the workstations will not be accessible for a longer period of time.

Noise pollution is also to be expected throughout level 5.

Temporarily, the bound journals will be moved to the stacks. A direct link to the group study room from the staircase will be created, the walls will be painted a lighter colour, new carpeting will be laid, sun protection will be improved, most of the furniture will be replaced and the existing stock will be rearranged according to a new concept.

The aim of these measures is to offer you, our customers, a more attractive and pleasant learning and working atmosphere than before.

We ask for your understanding.

The university invites you: ... to the open day on campus on Sunday, 03 July 2005!

The library will be participating with the following programme:

• Information stand: Information about the services offered by the University Library
  The University Library will provide information about its offers and services (holdings, catalogue, electronic resources, online interlibrary loan, events to teach information literacy, etc.)
  Location: University Library
  Time: 10.00 - 18.00 h
• Short guided tours through the University Library
  As part of a short tour, you will get to know the most important user areas and services of the University Library.
  Location: University Library
  Time: 11.00 -16.00, every hour, duration approx. 15 minutes.
• 2665 - scenic photographs: Photo exhibition of the studio theatre.
  Location: University Library
  Time: 03.07.2005 - 22.07.2005
• Musical Intermezzi: Flute ensemble 'Flauto amabile Paderborn'
  Location: University Library
  Time: between 13.00 - 17.00 hrs
• Book bazaar: Sale of discarded books and magazines
  Location: University library, group study room, level 5
  Time: 10.00 - 18.00 (also on 04.07.2005, 10.00 - 16.00)

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Of course you have access to our electronic services such as catalogue, loan account, databases, reference works or electronic full texts via WWW during the closing times.

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30.05.2005: Due to technical problems with the journal database (ZDB) maintained by the Berlin State Library, there are currently delays in the processing of interlibrary loans for journal articles. We ask for your understanding.

In response to many requests from our users, it is now possible to order magazines from outside the campus area and around the clock.

In order to prevent misuse of this functionality, registration (user ID number and password) is required.

Orders are collected from the stacks between 7.30 am and 6.30 pm Monday to Friday and between 9.00 am and 4.30 pm on Saturdays and made available at the local lending desk for 7 days.

Orders placed outside these times will be processed on the next working day.

It is possible to collect items from the local circulation desk during the library's opening hours.

The Union Catalogue of Libraries in North Rhine-Westphalia (HBZ Union Catalogue) now offers you a new function that makes it easier for you to access our holdings.

If you have found a title in the union catalogue that is held by the University Library, you can now click on the Paderborn University Library siglum (466 PB: UB) in the holdings display to not only find information on the shelfmark of the items held by us, but you can also access our item list directly via the link to the local library catalogue. There you can immediately find out about the loan status and, if necessary, place a reservation.

Due to urgent maintenance work, the Aleph services of the University Library Centre (HBZ) will be temporarily unavailable on Friday, 20.05.2005, from 12.00 noon.

This will result in restrictions on the use of the following services:

• The HBZ union catalogue will not be available.
• It will not be possible to search the union catalogue via the Digital Library NRW.
• It is not possible to query availability in the electronic interlibrary loan system or from the databases.

We ask for your understanding.

On 30.04. it will not be possible to access individual electronic services via WWW, e.g. catalogue, loan account, interlibrary loan, DigiBib (personalised access).

On the other closing days, our electronic services such as catalogue, loan account, interlibrary loan, DigiBib (personalised access), databases, reference works or electronic full texts will be available via WWW.

Get an idea of the full range of services on offer, familiarise yourself with the various fields and locations of the IMT and get an overview of all the IT and media-related services offered by the IMT.

Dates:
Thursday, 28 April, 12:00 noon
Wednesday, 4 May, 12:00 noon
Tuesday, 10 May, 12:00 noon

Meeting point: Notebook Café, Room BI 1.111 in the foyer of the University Library

Duration: approx. 1 hour

Registration is not required.

If you have any further questions, please contact the Notebook Café team (e-mail: nbc@uni-paderborn.de, nbc.uni-paderborn.de/).

read - listen - watch

Our programme:

20.00: Radau in der Bibliothek
Literary-political cabaret tradition is brought to life by Eckhard Radau in a way that is as amusing as it is startling, and staged musically by Bernd Düring.

21.00: Rainbow Sleeves "Painted Songs" - concert
Lara Schallenberg with her melodious "feel-good voice" and Eddie Nünning, the trained master guitarist, invite you on a musically varied journey through many genres from jazz and pop to folk and blues.

10.00 pm: Christina Seck - Adventures for the night
Reading from the "Wildschütz": "... [T]he story of the notorious game shooter Hermann Klostermann, whose unfortunate memory has not yet been extinguished in the Paderborn region."

The exhibition "Colours, Shapes, Structures" by Paderborn artist Elke Jürgens will be presented in the foyer of the university library.

- Admission free -

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The Computer Science Branch Library in Fürstenallee will be closed from 25 to 28 March 2005.

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Due to system work on Tuesday, 15.02.2005, from 7:00 a.m. to approx. 8:00 a.m.
our catalogue, your loan account, electronic interlibrary loan, personal registration with the Digital Library and the Internet PCs in the library will not be available. However, it will be possible to borrow and return books.

[Further information]

Of course you have access to our electronic services such as catalogue, loan account, databases, reference works or electronic full texts via WWW during the closing times.

Due to maintenance work at the University Library Centre (HBZ), there will be disruptions to the electronic interlibrary loan service from 12.01.05, 16.00 to 13.01.05, 8.00. This affects the ordering of interlibrary loans for journal articles as well as the collection of electronic interlibrary loan deliveries. We ask for your understanding.