Area of responsibility
Acquisition of literature
- Research and selection of appropriate literature for our library stock
- handling book requests from students and staff members
- checking unit
- ordering literature for the entire University
- applying for funds for the acquisition of literature
- control and processing of invoices
- license negotiations
- license management
- national and international passive inter-library loan
- receiving and adding literature donations to the library stock
Service
- continuous information service on our loans desk
- consultation, both in person and via telephone or email
- library tours for a single person as well as for groups
- research training
- Citavi training for small and big groups
- upkeep of our website
- building and maintaining of databases
- providing the opportunity to print or scan
- working on research commissions
- providing workplaces and rooms
- distributing the contents of journals
- free reservation of books that are borrowed
- providing free lockers for your stay in/at the library
- return box for returning books outside the opening time
- apprenticeships in the field of librarianship
- providing youth hostel cards for members of the University
- shipping of “Geisenheimer Berichte”
- lost and found office
- providing a children’s play corner
- borrowing portable playsets for University staff/members
Literature provision
- cataloguing of literature
- providing different catalogues for research
- media loan
- constant maintenance and revision of our stock
- conservation and provision of our historical stock
- technical revision of books
- Receiving and adding donation
- creation and management of user accounts
- national and international active inter-library loan
- processing and providing of databases
- processing and providing E-books
- bookbinding of journal issues
- organization of periodical circulations
- cataloguing, archiving and providing Bachelor/Master thesis of the university graduates
- providing the media of the “Gesellschaft der Geschichte des Weines” which is also for loan
Projects
- FIS – Forschungssinformationssystem
- HeFDI - Hessische Forschungsdateninfrastrukturen
Opening hours
lecture period
| Mon. - Thu.: | 9:00 am - 07:00 pm |
| Fri.: | 9:00 am - 04:00 pm |
Semester break
| Mon. + Wed.: | 09:00 am - 04:00 pm |
| Tue. + Thu.: | 09:00 am - 06:00 pm |
| Fri.: | 09:00 am - 12:00 pm |
Exams
| Mon. - Fri.: | 08:00 am - 07:00 pm |
Contact persons
Head of the library
Sabine
Muth
Acquisition
Christine
Neumer
Licensing
Dipl.-Online-Journalistin (FH)
Stefanie
Blum
Loan counter, catalog, inter-library loan
Ivonne
Pfeiffer
Library-IT
Dipl.-Ing. (FH)
Marion
Elzner
Rhabanus
Freimuth
periodicals, lost and found office
Stefanie
Zschiesche
Analog-to-digital conversion
Melanie
Rubröder
Trainee
Dominik
Petry
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