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Workplaces and Equipment

LUL offers a large number of desks in different learning and working environments in its branches. You are free to choose your seat in the reading rooms, no prior seat booking is necessary.

Computer workplaces are available in all branches.

How can I log in to the computers?

Depending on which group of persons you belong to, you can log in with your university login or with your library login:

Category of Persons Login

University members

Uni-login

External users of LUL

Library-login (you need to activate your library account)

Uni-login

Identifier assigned by the University Computer Centre to all university members. Further information can be found on the page about the Uni-login.

Library-login

Combination of library number and associated password. It is necessary activate your library account in order to use our computer workplaces. About an hour after activating your account, logging in should be feasible. Please mind that after a replacement of your library card you have to activate your library account again.

PhD students of Leipzig University (verification required) with a valid library card can apply for an individual study space. The spaces are assigned to a fixed date. It is not possible to extend this period.

A claim cannot be raised due to high demand. Upon receiving the key you accept the terms of use [dt. Schließfachordnung, PDF – 102kB, in German only].

Branch Spaces Room/Equipment
Bibliotheca
Albertina 
 

No spaces available at the moment because of the ongoing fire safety works

Library for Education and Sport Science 10 Desk, chair, locker, computer with 2 screens, Wi-Fi, LAN
Currently no places are available,a new application phase will take place in autumn 2024.

For intensive writing and learning phases, you can book a carrel at three UBL locations. Carrels can be booked for 4 weeks. There is the option of 3 extensions provided that the place has not been pre-booked by someone else. You can check here if carrels are available and at which location and reserve one if necessary.

Please note that due to the high demand, it may happen that all individual workplaces are already allocated and have already been pre-booked several times.

When the maximum number of reservations has been reached, the reservation button is automatically hidden.

Locations and equipment:

Location Available carrels Equipmennt

Bibliotheca Albertina

7

WiFi, LAN, lockable cabinet, lockable glass door
check availability
Campus Library 4

WiFi, LAN, lockable glass door
check availability

Library Medicine/Natural Sciences 2 1 room, 2 workplaces, PC , WiFi, lockable cabinet, whiteboard
check availability

We offer space to study, work or collaborate. At several branches group study rooms are available. These rooms differ in size and equipment. Please see the list below:

 
Branch Number of Rooms (Persons per Room) Equipment Reservation

Bibliotheca Albertina

 3 (4–6 persons)

Moveable desks, partially with whiteboards

Reservation
Campus Library 8 (2–8 persons) Moveable desks Reservation
Medicine and Sciences Library 7 (4–6 persons) Moveable desks, whiteboards, 2 rooms with screens, 2 PCs Reservation
Library of Education and Sport Science 5 (4 persons) Partially with whiteboards, LCD-projector Reservation
Library of Veterinary Medicine 2 (12 persons) Whiteboards, 1 PC Reservation

Checkroom lockers

Free available checkroom lockers may be used during your stay. Please empty it when the respective branch closes. If a locker is not emptied by closing time or in case of lost key we will open it for a fee you will have to pay. Items not collected will be stored for 6 months and disposed afterwards.

Permanent Lockers

The loan of permanent lockers is only possible with a valid library card. Upon receiving the key for a locker / mobile book cart / workspace for PhD students you accept the terms of use [dt. Schließfachordnung, PDF – 102kB, in German only]. Due to the high demand only one locker / mobile cart or workspace for PhD students may be booked per person.

  • Bibliotheca Albertina: You can check here if lockers on loan are available or request one.
  • Campus Library: Lockers are assigned in order of a waiting list at the service desk.
  • Law Library – Law I and Law II: Lockers are assigned in order of a waiting list at the service desk.
  • Library of Education and Sport Science: You can check here if lockers on loan are available or request one.
  • Medicine and Sciences Library: You can check here if lockers on loan are available or request one.

Mobile book carts

At Bibliotheca Albertina we offer mobile book carts that can be rented for six months by PhD students of Leipzig University.
Please feel free to contact us at the service desk on the 2nd floor of Bibliotheca Albertina during the service hours or send us an email to info@ub.uni-leipzig.de
 

 

At some of our branches we offer parent-child rooms that can be reserved via the website. The rooms have varying equipment, please see the list below. In the sanitary areas near the rooms there are diaper-changing tables and diaper pails.

BranchEquipmentReservation?

Bibliotheca Albertina

Computer workplace, high chair/game table, resting/nursing chair, playpen, toys

Reservation
Campus LibraryWorkplace, high chair/game table, playpen, toysReservation
Medicine and Sciences LibraryComputer workplace, high chair/game table, resting/nursing chair, playpen, toysReservation
Library of Education and Sport ScienceComputer workplace, high chair/game table, resting/nursing chair, playpen, toysReservation
EquipmentBranch

Microforms (microfilm, microfiche)

Bibliotheca Albertina

Records, tapes

Library of Musicology

Special databases

Bibliotheca Albertina (American Space – Access to e-libraryUSA)

Library of Area Studies (Taiwan Resource Center for Chinese Studies – Access to databases of the National Central Library)