Interlibrary loan

You can collect ordered media from the service desk during our opening hours.

If you provide us with your e-mail address, you will receive an e-mail notification as soon as reserved or ordered media are ready for you to collect. The books you have ordered will be available for you for 10 opening days.

You can collect ordered media from the service desk during our opening hours.

You can get an overview of your current orders (books, e-books, articles) in your user account in the library catalogue.

The loan period is usually four weeks.

In your library account, you can see online which items you have currently borrowed and extend the loan period of the items. You can also view different loan periods - e.g. for orders from other libraries - in your library account.

To log in to your library account, you will need your library number. This can be found on your CampusCard or, for guest users, on your library card. The password for the library catalogue is your birthday (ddmm, e.g. 0204 for April second). It must be changed after the first login. You can change the password yourself in your library account in the library catalogue. You can also have a new one sent to you via "Forgotten password".

You can extend the loan period up to two times by one month each. However, this is only possible at the earliest five days before the loan period expires and only as long as the books have not been reserved by another user.

Books that you have ordered via interlibrary loan will only be extended under reserve, i.e. the books can be reclaimed at any time!

You can find your library number on your CampusCard or library card. It begins with 0833XXXXXXX.

The password for the library catalogue is your date of birth (TTMM, e.g. 0204 for 2nd April). It must be changed after the first login. You can change the password by yourself in your user account in the library catalogue. You can also have a new one sent to you via "Forgotten password".

You need the library number

- to log in to your library account in the library catalogue to view your loan periods and extend them if necessary

- to order books or articles via interlibrary loan.

If you placed an interlibrary loan order digitally, you will receive an e-mail from the e-mail address fernleihe(at)th-ab.de. In this e-mail you will find a download link to retrieve the order.

For members of the university (students, staff, professors), this will be labelled with [EXT] as it is sent via an external server.

If another person is to pick up books for you, we require a collection authorisation. Please fill in the following document with the necessary details and send it back to us by e-mail or bring it with you when you borrow the books.

Please note:

- The collection of ordered and reserved books is only possible during opening hours with full service.

- The person collecting the books must also pay the fees for ordered and reserved books (with CampusCard or EC card).

- The person collecting the books must identify themselves.

Authorisation to collect books

I, [name, library number], hereby authorise the person [name of person collecting the items] living in [street, postcode and place of residence] to collect the items I have ordered and reserved from the Aschaffenburg UAS Library.

The pick-up authorisation is valid from ________ to ________.

When ordering via interlibrary loan, we charge a flat rate of €0.50 (university students) or €1.00 (guest users) per positively completed order.

The costs are to be paid upon collecting your order.

An order is deemed to have been successfully completed when the book has actually been delivered and postage costs have been incurred. The costs also have to be paid if you do not collect the book.

Please always remember to return the media timely, otherwise reminder fees will be charged.

If you cannot find the book or essay you are looking for using the search function in Gateway Bayern, you can place a free interlibrary loan request.

Are you having problems finding literature for your seminar paper or Bachelor's thesis? You don't know where to start? Can't find any current literature on the topic? You find too many hits and don't know which criteria to use to make your selection?

The UAS Library offers a comprehensive range of courses on the topics of research, academic writing, citation and working with the reference management programme Zotero. For individual questions, you can also arrange an individual consultation appointment.