Request interlibrary loan
Description
Municipal public libraries provide published information. They are part of the education system and serve school, vocational, general and cultural education. They teach media and information literacy and provide special support to promote reading among children and young people. In addition to providing literature in foreign languages, intercultural events (e.g. readings) also take place. There are various offers available, such as books, newspapers/magazines, sheet music, maps, audio books, CDs, DVDs, CD-ROMs, blus-ray discs and online media. If the various items are not available in the library, you can use the interlibrary loan service in many cases.
A user card is required to use the available services.
You are in possession of a valid user card from a public library.
With your user card you can borrow media
- borrow media and take them home,
- use the online lending service,
- read media on site in the library and
- have access to various databases including electronic newspapers/magazines.
- An identity card or passport with a current registration certificate is required for the issue of a user card.
- Children and young people up to the age of 18 require a declaration of consent from their legal representative.
The costs for use vary from library to library. Additional services (copies, reproduction orders, document delivery, use of the image archive, access to the Internet) may incur further costs, the amount of which is specified in the fee schedule of the respective library.
Users must observe the loan periods for certain types of media specified in the library's user regulations.
Depending on the desired interlibrary loan, processing times may vary.
To the municipal public libraries that participate in interlibrary loan.
- You are interested in the relevant information, but it is not available at your local library.
- You use your user card to order the corresponding interlibrary loan.
- You can borrow the media for a fee.
As a rule, items are excluded from interlibrary loan:
- Media that are available in the local public library, even if they cannot be borrowed or are currently on loan
- electronic resources (e.g. e-books)
- new literature that is available in bookshops for a price of up to 15.00 euros
- current new publications (exceptions: proof of location can be determined)
- Loose-leaf collections and unbound periodicals
- recent travel guides, entertainment and hobby literature
- patent specifications, DIN standards
- Master's, diploma and examination theses
- Newspaper volumes
- Media in unusual formats (e.g. large formats, pictures and sculptures)
- Television recordings and the like
- Holdings from reference libraries, reading rooms and institute libraries
- particularly old works
On the basis of the municipal code for the state of Saxony-Anhalt, the municipalities issue fee and user statutes for the use of their libraries.
Interlibrary loans between libraries are governed by the Regulations on Interlibrary Loans in the Federal Republic of Germany (LVO).
State Chancellery and Ministry of Culture of the State of Saxony-Anhalt
30.07.2020
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.