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Phone: (07531) 88-2831
The Media Centre and reading room are open:
Monday - Friday: 8:00 - 21:30 (9:30 p.m.), Saturday: 9.00 - 19.00 (7:00 p.m.)
In August and September there are different opening hours that are detailed here.
The Media Centre is spread over two levels in the Library's Information Centre.
The Media Centre is organized according to the same systematic open stacks arrangement as the rest of the Library's collection. So, you can easily get an overview of your discipline's media collection.
Media offered:
There is also AV material in the book areas organized by subject.
Finding AV Media: - In the catalogue you can limit your search results to show only specific types of media.
- You can also search for audiovisual material using the MedioVis search system
- The items in the Media Centre are differentiated from the rest of the Library's collection because their call numbers always begins with 6.
- In the upper level of the Media Centre, you will find media material directly related to different disciplines and arranged in alphabetical order according to their acronyms (alg, bio, che, deu...)
- It is also easy to search directly on the shelves, because the media collection is arranged using the same call numbers as in the book areas. If you know, for instance, where "Goethe's Faust" is in printed form, related films and other media will have the same call number in the Media Centre as filmed/recorded literature. The films that begin with the call letters tff are arranged alphabetically according to director.
- There is a special collection only for filmed newspapers (call letter M) and dissertations on microfilm (call letter P).
Using the media:
The Media Centre also has the necessary equipment for using any of the material there.
We offer:
The Media Centre staff will gladly assist you in using the different machines.
Borrowing Media Centre Material:
- Please check out the items that you wish to borrow in the Media Centre.
- The borrowing period for DVDs and videos is 1 week, the borrowing period for other items is 4 weeks (if it is not otherwise marked).
- Due to copyright laws only members of the University of Konstanz (students and employees) are allowed to borrow television programmes that were recorded by the Library. These recordings are designated with a sticker on the package.
Offers for Teachers:
- If you wish, we will gladly record a television program for you on DVD. Please tell the specifics to Wiebke Knop or Charlotte Freitag in a timely manner before the beginning of the program (phone: 88-2822).
- DVDs and videos can also be placed in the hand or semester reserve.
Reading Room:
The Media Centre's reading room is available for the following uses:
- Material that you ordered per interlibrary loan but should not be taken out of the library is placed in the reading room. Depending on the rules of the library that loaned the book, either the book is only allowed to be viewed or can also be copied.
- Books from the rare books collection can be read here (it is not possible to copy them).
- A selection of unbound journals can be read and copied here
- You can use the maps and atlases
- You can view and copy the following special collection of the Library:
The political correspondence of Kaiser Karl V. : A collection of copied archived material catalogued in the PolkaWeb Database (please use Netscape or Firefox to view)
Drinks are not allowed in the reading room in order to protect the collection.
Also the video surveillance is only used to ensure the protection of the collection.
We ask for your understanding and cooperation.
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