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.

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