Loan and Return

Loan

General Rules on Borrowing Media

You can view your orders, loans and charges in your library account. You can extend the loan period of your media and check the validity of your library card.
Please use our online tutorials to familiarise yourself with individual aspects of the library account.

Out-of-house lending of media is only possible if a valid e-mail address is entered in the library account, because reminders, provisioning information and, in some cases, loan and return receipts are sent to you by e-mail. Non-HU members can update their email address themselves in their library account.

Details on the lending conditions on site can be found on the respective location pages.

Reservations and Orders

All reservations and orders are free of charge. Please note:

• Borrowed books can be reserved independently in Primus.
• You will be informed by email about the availability and collection location of the medium.
• Some media must be ordered. If it is not possible to place an order in Primus, please contact the library information desk.

The University Library stores part of its holdings in closed stacks. Most branch libraries make the media available for collection for the period of seven opening days. Please refer to the page Delivery times for magazine orders for individual delivery times.

Circulation Machines

If possible, please use the automatic lending machines at our locations, which you can use during the entire opening hours. At some machines you can also renew items and pay your fees.

You need a valid library card and your four-digit PIN. You can set this yourself in your library account.
On our tutorial pages you will find a video tutorial on how to set up or change your PIN.

Returning Items

Returning Items at the Locations

You can return borrowed UB media at any of our locations. Exceptions are the Law branch library. Please give priority to using the return machines.

Interlibrary loans must always be returned to the location where they were issued. Interlibrary loans can only be returned at the service counters.

Returning Items by Post

You can also return items to us by post. In this case, however, you bear the risk yourself. The date of receipt at the circulation desk is always decisive.

Please use the following postal address:

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Universitätsbibliothek
Location (z.B. Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum oder ZwB Germanistik)
Leihstelle
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin

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