From 02.01.2016 we will be available for you again during regular opening hours.

Of course you will have access to our electronic services such as catalogue, library account, databases and electronic full texts via WWW during the closing times.

Please remember to renew borrowed items via your library account or (if they are reserved) to return them in good time.

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

Citavi has released version 5.2. An important new feature is that Citavi 5.2 is compatible with Word 2016. Furthermore, you can now use a hyperlink to jump from a cited source in the text to the corresponding full reference in the bibliography.

You can find out more on this page: service.citavi.com/news/188/citavi-5_2-veroeffentlicht.aspx.

If you are still using version Citavi 4, you can find information on how to switch to the latest version here: www.citavi.com/de/citavi5-upgrade.html.

Switching is very easy!

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

Of course, you will have access to our electronic services such as the catalogue, library account, databases and electronic full texts via WWW on this public holiday.

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From 13 to 29 October 2015 you will find our Info-Point in the entrance area of the University Library. From 10:00 to 15:00, librarians and students working at the University Library will be on hand to answer your questions about the library and its services. The questions can range from "What do I need to borrow books from the University Library" to "What is a seminar apparatus?" And if you can't find a quick answer, we're sure to know someone who can help.

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The University Library will be closed on Saturday, 3 October 2015 (German Unity Day).

Of course, you will have access to our electronic services such as the catalogue, library account, databases and electronic full texts via WWW on this public holiday.

Paderborn University Library (UB) has been measuring itself against other academic libraries in Germany since 2004 as part of the benchmarking system "Bibliotheksindex BIX". Once again, Paderborn University Library has achieved excellent results in the two dimensions of efficiency and development. Here it belongs to the TOP group of all university libraries in Germany. In the two other target dimensions measured in the BIX - services and utilisation - it is, as in previous years, in the middle of the field.

Paderborn University Library's very long opening hours of 107 hours per week contribute to its good position. These are the sixth longest opening hours of all libraries participating in the BIX-WB.

The BIX also recognises the library's high proportion of expenditure on electronic media and services. It invested 68.7 % of its acquisition budget in the acquisition and provision of electronic media, which is the fifth best figure in Germany and the second best figure in NRW.

The intensive use of the library's electronic information media - databases, electronic journals and books, electronic seminar apparatuses, etc. - has a positive effect on the BIX: with over 1.165 million accesses per year, it achieves the highest value of all North Rhine-Westphalian university libraries and the third best value in Germany.

Although the range of electronic information media on offer is becoming ever more extensive and their use, which is not tied to the location and opening hours of the library, is becoming ever more intensive, the real 'location of the library' continues to prove to be the university's central place of learning, work and communication.

The continuous upward trend in the number of library visits and circulation figures in recent years continued in 2014: each primary user (academics and students at the university) visited the library an average of 64 times a year. With a total of more than 1.3 million visitors and more than 2.1 million loans, new record figures were achieved for the University Library in 2014.

However, the BIX also reveals two problem areas that cannot be solved by the University Library alone: firstly, the library's below-average resources for acquiring literature. Although the University Library received additional funds from the university, faculties, departments and institutes in 2014, it performed poorly in this area: for the entire year, only 124 euros were available for each primary user to purchase new information media (databases, electronic and printed books and journals, etc.). On the other hand, this is due to the significantly below-average staffing of the University Library, i.e. the number of employees available to provide the wide range of services of the University Library, from the acquisition, provision and lending of media to advice and training, the support of seminar equipment, the digitisation of media, etc. and for the further development of new, sustainable services.

"The BIX is one of the tools that help us to obtain a transparent picture of our performance and indications for further quality improvements," explains library director Dr Dietmar Haubfleisch. "We are delighted with the library's high performance and the high level of acceptance among our users. We recognise that we are strategically very well positioned. However, the BIX also shows us impressively where the shoe pinches and what needs to be done," he continues.

Background information on the BIX:

64 academic libraries - including 42 university libraries in two classes - took part in the news BIX library index. The BIX library index measures the performance of public and academic libraries based on certain key figures: www.bix-bibliotheksindex.de.

Of course, you can also access our electronic services such as the catalogue, library account, databases and electronic full texts via the WWW during the closing times.

Users who use Citavi with a licence key or the free version can now download the new version 5. Citavi will automatically update all previously created projects to version 5. You can find technical information about the version change in the Citavi manual as well as information about the new features in this version.

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Of course, you can also access our electronic services such as the catalogue, library account, databases and electronic full texts via WWW on these days.

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Media available for short-term loan can be borrowed from 02/04/2015 to 07/04/2015.

Of course you have access to our electronic services such as catalogue, library account, databases or electronic journals via WWW on all days.

Due to urgently needed work on the library software and hardware, the University Library will be closed on Saturday, 28 March 2015, and some of its online services will only be available to a limited extent (period: 1:00 to 24:00).

Restricted services:

• The University Library catalogue will only be available for research purposes.

It will not be possible to

• use the functions of your own library account,
• call up watch lists or calendar functions,
• extend the loan period of borrowed information media,
• place reservations on borrowed information media,
• order items from the stacks.

Furthermore

• place interlibrary loan requests (for books or articles) and
• request new course reserves or edit established course reserves, as the registration function for lecturers cannot be used.

During the software and hardware work, you will still have access to our electronic services such as databases, electronic journals or electronic full texts via the Internet.

On Sunday, 29 March 2015, we will be available for you again during the usual opening hours.

Thank you for your understanding!

Test the functionalities free of charge and give us some feedback.

In cooperation with the Federal Employment Agency, the three Rotary clubs from Paderborn are inviting students to this year's Paderborn Careers Information Day on 7 February 2015 at Paderborn University.

In individual events, pupils will be given the opportunity to gain an insight into various professions on campus.

Paderborn University Library is taking part in the event as part of the presentation of careers in bookselling/publishing/library.

Location: Paderborn University, Room C3.222
Time: 10:00 a.m., 12:30 p.m. and 2:00 p.m.
Speakers: Heike Fuest (Head of Training at Paderborn University Library), Markus Linnemann (Bookseller, Linnemann - Bücher in Paderborn GmbH & Co. KG), Christiane Voßhans-Schöningh (Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Paderborn)

Further information: http://www.job-infotag.de/

The University Library is taking part in Paderborn University's "INFOTAG für Schülerinnen und Schüler 2015" on 19 January 2015 with guided tours of the library.

Dates: 9:00 am, 11:30 am and 2:00 pm
Meeting point: Foyer of the University Library
Duration: approx. 1 hour

Further information on the event, which aims to give pupils from the region an insight into the study opportunities and study conditions at Paderborn University: https://zsb.uni-paderborn.de/schnupperangebote/Infotag/

On Thursday, 15 January 2015, the library will close at 21:00 due to an AStA party.

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

With the start of the examination period around the end of the winter semester, the demand for workstations in the library increases significantly. In order to avoid seat reservations and to support a fair allocation of workstations, we offer you break discs in our workstation areas, which function like car parking discs: When you leave your workstation, you set the start of your break. After 30 minutes, or 60 minutes at lunchtime, the space may be occupied by other library users.

In order to meet the increased demand for workstations during the examination period, we have provided additional desks on the entrance level.

http://www.ub.uni-paderborn.de/lernen_und_arbeiten/pausenscheiben.shtml

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