Coronavirus: FAQs on Current Services

Wearing an FFP2 mask is mandatory when entering the library, moving around the building and on all traffic routes, as well as at the study space.

In addition, please adhere to the applicable distance and hygiene rules. If you have cold symptoms (e.g., fever or cough), do not enter the University Library.

Central Library opening hours:

• Monday – Friday, 09–24:00; Saturday, 10–24:00.

• Please note the different opening hours of the open stacks for journals (ZFM): Monday – Friday: 09–22:00; Saturday, 10–18:00.

• Please also note that the library will be unstaffed from Monday - Friday after 22:00 and Saturday after 18:00 and that services will be limited.

Architecture and Art Studies Department Library

In the Departmental Library of Architecture and Art Science, it is mandatory to wear an FFP2 or surgical mask when moving around the library and on all traffic routes. At the study space, the mask can be removed if a distance of 1.5m is maintained. In addition, please adhere to the applicable distance and hygiene rules. If you have cold symptoms (e.g. fever or cough), do not enter the University Library.

To the opening hours of the Architecture and Art Studies Department Library

Physics Department Library

Wearing an FFP2 mask is mandatory when entering the library, moving around the building and on all traffic routes, as well as at the study space.

In addition, please adhere to the applicable distance and hygiene rules. If you have cold symptoms (e.g., fever or cough), do not enter the University Library.

To the opening hours of the Physics Department Library

Other regulations may apply in the special libraries. Please inform yourself directly on the websites:
Economics and Management Library
Mathematics Library
Library of the Center for Research on Antisemitism
Library of the Modern Language Center

Group study rooms and workbays are open again and can be reserved online by all TU and UdK students. An unreserved room or workbay can also be used by others if no reservation has been made.

To the instructions and further information

No, all persons get access. If you want to borrow something, please apply for your library card via our online form before your visit. For TU students, the TU student ID is also the library card.

Yes. Breaks of up to 60 minutes are possible. To do this, use our break disks.

Bags and jackets may be taken into the building. However, you are also welcome to store your wardrobe in the day lockers in the foyer. You will need your own padlock for this.

Yes, you may bring drinks to the library in closed containers.

Yes, attendance at online lectures is permitted at all study spaces on the ground floor of the Central Library.

Yes, but registration is only possible via our online registration form. 

When returning items to TU and UdK University Library at Fasanenstraße, you must use either the self-return machine or the anonymous return box (for AV media and inter-library loans) in the foyer. Items from the department and special libraries may also be returned here or to their holding library. There is also an additional return box in front of the library that you can use outside of our opening hours.

Alternatively, you can return all items via post. The date we receive the items will be recorded as the date of return. You are liable for any loss or damage (see Section 16 (3) General Regulations of Use). Once we have processed your return, you will be emailed a receipt. If returning items by post, please send them to the following address:

Technische Universität Berlin
Universitätsbibliothek
z.Hd. Leihstelle
Fasanenstr. 88
(im VOLKSWAGEN-Haus)
10623 Berlin