The University Library will be closed from 23.12.2023 to 01.01.2024.

From 02.01.2024 we will be open again during regular opening hours.

Books for short-term loan can be borrowed from 21 December 2023 to 9 January 2024.

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

The offers of our cooperation partners with the offers 'Writing Advice at the Information Centre', 'Brain Breaks' and 'Break Yoga' will be cancelled during the regular Christmas break from 23.12.2023 to 05.01.2024.

From the second calendar week in 2024, all appointments will take place again as usual: writing counselling every Thursday from 14:00 to 15:00, brain breaks on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 14:00 to 16:00 and break yoga on Tuesdays from 12:30 to 13:00 and from 13:00 to 13:30.

The catalogue is being continuously developed. Here are the latest developments:

• A fresh new look
  Paderborn University has been presenting itself in a new corporate design and with a redesigned website since summer 2023.
  The catalogue is based on the new corporate design. catalogue of the university library catalogue now also has a fresh look.

• E-library card
  From now on, we will also make your library card available to you in the catalogue in electronic form as an e-library card.
  So you always have your library card with you on your smartphone or other mobile devices. The e-library card can be used in the library at all self-checkout machines, at one of the two checkout machines or at the local circulation desk in the same way as the conventional library card in card format.
  The e-library card is available to all library users.
  To display the e-library card, first log in to the catalogue.cataloguein the catalogue. If you click on the menu with your name, you will find the new entry "My e-library card" under the familiar item "My library account".

• "Notes" function available again
  The catalogue offers the option of organising searched titles in watch lists. In addition to the watch lists, it was also possible in the past to add notes to individual titles. Unfortunately, this function could not be used during the changeover to theto the new library system in August 2022initially not be transferred and offered in the new catalogue.
  We are pleased to be able to offer you the notes function in a revised version in the catalogue again with immediate effect. If you have used the notes function in the past, your previously assigned notes are now available to you again. The existing notes have been transferred from the old system.

You can find further information in the catalogue blog.

The group study room on level 4 (BI4.099) can also be used as a parent-child room for university-affiliated parents. Work tables with power connections for notebooks are available for parents and there is seating, books and toys for the children.

The University Library will be closed on Wednesday, 01.11.2023 (All Saints' 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.

From 12.10.2023, the Writing Competence Centre's student writing consultation will take place every Thursday from 14:00 to 15:00 at the library's information centre. Students from all faculties can ask questions about academic work and their term papers and theses during this hour.

The colleagues at the Information Centre are also available to answer questions about literature research in the catalogue and databases during the usual service hours (Mon to Thu from 8:00 to 19:00 and Fri from 8:00 to 15:30).

The team from my beneFIT@upb.de is once again offering all students small sessions of relaxation and concentration exercises in the library. Under the guidance of trainers, students can take part in the exercises between their lectures and seminars without pre-registration.

The "Brain Breaks" are always offered on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 14:00 to 16:00, and everyone can decide for themselves how long they want to take part.

The "Break Yoga" takes place every Tuesday on two dates, from 12:30 to 13:00 and from 13:00 to 13:30. Please arrive on time, yoga mats are provided.

All classes take place in the passage from level 4 to the specialised library level 2 in building I.

Further information can be found on the pages of my beneFIT.

As part of the "Catalogue Enrichment" project, the bibliographic title data listed in the library catalogue is enriched with additional information, in particular with tables of contents.

These tables of contents can be found in the catalogue in the detailed view of a title under "Link to other content".

The actual text is usually extracted from the scanned tables of contents using OCR text recognition. This can be used in search portals - such as in our catalogue - to make the tables of contents searchable. The tables of contents thus provide subject-specific keywords that can be helpful for research.

Before the changeover to the new library system in August 2022, these OCR texts were automatically imported into the library system via the University Library Centre (hbz) and could thus be searched directly in the catalogue. However, this interface is no longer available in the new library system.

Paderborn University Library has now successfully set up its own autonomous process that independently collects the available OCR texts of the tables of contents and makes them searchable in the catalogue.

This means that the tables of contents can now be searched again via "All fields" or by selecting the "Table of contents" field.

Further information can be found in the catalogue blog.

In the winter semester 2023/2024, the University Library will once again be offering its tried-and-tested range of courses, mostly as face-to-face events, some as online events. You can find the current range of courses on our training website.

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The University Library will be closed on Tuesday, 3 October 2023 (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.

The University Library catalogue is now also available in English. The default language is currently German. This can be changed to English if required. The corresponding function can be found in the menu bar next to the "Login" button.

Further information can be found in the catalogue blog.

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Brain Breaks and Break Yoga will not be offered during the lecture-free period. From 10.10.2023 - just in time for the winter semester - the team from my beneFIT@upb.de will start the free programme again.

The Paderborn University websites, and with them the Paderborn University Library websites, will be given a new visual appearance and a new navigation structure with the changeover on 18 July 2023. The library's pages are currently displayed in a provisional migration design. This presentation will be gradually replaced by the new design.

Of course, you will have access to our electronic services such as the 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 during the closing times.

Researchers at the University have the opportunity to receive financial support from the University's new Open Access Publication Fund for the publication of research results in Open Access journals, contributions to Open Access anthologies and Open Access monographs.
The fund is provided by the university. It is managed by the University Library on the basis of the Open Access Policy and in compliance with the 'Funding Criteria for the Paderborn University Open Access Publication Fund' adopted by the Senate at its meeting on 18 January 2023.

Until the end of the lecture period, i.e. until 14 July 2023, the team at my beneFIT@upb.de is once again offering students break yoga and brain breaks as small units of relaxation and concentration exercises.

Break yoga takes place on Tuesdays from 8:15 to 9:00 am, brain breaks on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:00 to 4:30 pm.

The meeting point for both programmes is the passage from level 4 to the specialist library level 2 in building I. Registration is not required.

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

In the summer semester 2023, the University Library will once again be offering more of its tried-and-tested range of courses as face-to-face events. Some courses will also continue to be offered online. You can find the current range of courses on our training website.

As part of the introduction of the new Alma library management system, the catalogue, which had been in beta status since 01.08.2022, was also updated. This phase has now been completed with the catalogue update. Irrespective of this, the catalogue is being continuously developed. You can find the latest new functions and improvements in the catalogue blog.

From 14 February to 30 March 2023, the team at meinbeneFit@upb.de will once again be offering small sessions of relaxation and concentration exercises in the form of break yoga and brain breaks.

Break yoga takes place every Tuesday from 8:15 to 9:00 a.m., brain breaks on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.

The meeting point for both programmes is the passage from Level 4 to the Library Level 2 in Building I. Students do not need to register for these events.

From Tuesday, 28 February to Friday, 3 March 2023, the University Library will host the first "Writing Days" event from 9:30 am to 5:00 pm.

Students and doctoral candidates from all faculties are invited to work intensively on their writing projects in the library over these four days. They will be supported with short workshops and advice on all aspects of writing and searching for literature. Joint exercise breaks with yoga or brain breaks offer a pleasant interruption and the conversation during the coffee break may motivate you with new writing impulses.

Registration is via the library's booking system for training courses.

Information on the programme and important information on the procedure can be found on the pages of the Competence Centre for Writing.

The "Writing Days" are organised by the Competence Centre for Writing and the University Library, together with other institutions of the University, such as the Writing Meeting for International Students, ProLernen, the Centre for Spelling Competence, the Graduate Centre of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and University Sports.

This year, the University Library is once again taking part in the digital information days for students with two Zoom presentations on the topic of "First aid for the term paper - literature search in the library".
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From Monday, 20 February 2023, electrical work will start on level 3 to replace the existing lights with brighter and more energy-efficient lights. The electrical work will be carried out in several construction phases.

Work will begin in the Sports Science media installation area and the neighbouring Magazines field. Workstations on level 3 will have to be dismantled or closed for the necessary re-laying of cables.

Access to the respective construction sections will be blocked. If you need literature in a blocked field, please contact the staff in the subject library or the information centre from Monday to Thursday from 8:00 to 18:30 and on Fridays from 8:00 to 15:00 or the desk of the local lending desk on Fridays from 15:00 to 18:30 and on Saturdays from 9:00 to 16:00.

We ask for your understanding.