Issue and Return Desks / Reference Desk, Reading Rooms, Catalogues Mon - Fri Sat 8.00 – 20.00 9.00 – 17.00 Open Stacks (levels 02, 03 und 04) Mon - Fri Sat 8.00 – 20.00* 9.00 – 17.00* Graphic Collection / Map Collection Mon - Fri 14.00 – 18.00 Sat 14.00 – 16.00 Manuscripts Department / Music Department / Department of Old and Rare Books Mon - Fri 10.00 – 18.00 Sat 10.00 – 16.00 * Access to the stacks until 15 minutes before closing time Anyone over the age of 16 is entitled to use the library free of charge, people under the age of 18 need their parents’ approval. Home loan is only possible for patrons whose domicile is Switzerland. For further details please consult the brochure Benutzungsbestimmungen which is available at the issue and reference desks. To use the library, you need a library card from a library affiliated to the IDS Information Network. The Zentralbibliothek Zürich will issue a library card after you show official identification. Please register first, using the respective online form on our website (www.zb.uzh.ch). The registration is valid for the NEBIS Network and all libraries affiliated to the IDS Information Network. All publications, unless otherwise stipulated by borrowing restrictions, may be taken home. The loan period lasts for four weeks and is automatically – without notification – extended by eight further weeks. During the extension of the loan period documents can be recalled at any time if requested by other users. The loan period can be extended manually (online), after automatic extensions, up to three more times. All books and periodicals displayed in the reading room areas are for reference only. Publications over one hundred years old may only be consulted in the library. All stock with the classification letters (except GG, but GGN included) (except FF, but FFN included) is located in the open access area (levels 02, 03 and 04). These books are fetched by the users themselves and presented either at the issue desk for open stacks books or at the reading room desk. On demand, documents may be delivered directly to the home address for a fee (CHF 10.- per volume) or sent by courier to one of the affiliated IDS libraries (q.v. section Purchasing Documents From Other Libraries). Journal articles from print documents of the Zentralbibliothek Zürich may be ordered on-line as hard copies or pdf-files (CHF 10.- per 20 pages). The On-line Network Catalogue IDS Zürich Zentralbibliothek / NEBIS lists all publications held by the ZB since 1988. It offers various access options and can also be accessed externally by Internet: www.zb.uzh.ch. The Central Alphabetical Catalogue for Zurich libraries (card catalogue with yellow labels) and the Subject Catalogue (card catalogue with green labels) list the ZB's holdings up to and including publication year 1989. These two catalogues exist in a digitized version and can also be accessed by Internet. If you wish to borrow a ZB book listed in the card catalogues and not located in the open access area, please order by computer using the On-line Network Catalogue: our staff will gladly assist you. Bibliographical and specialist inquiries should be made to the reference desk in the catalogue room. For information on specific subject areas please consult our subject specialists. Self-service photocopiers are available on all floors of the public access area. To use these photocopiers you will need a copy-card which can be purchased for CHF 10.- or 20.- at the reference desks in the reading or catalogue room, as well as at the issue and return desks. Microform machines for reading and reproducing documents are situated in the reading room (P 2). Photographs, slides, microfilms, scans etc. can be produced in-house: order forms are available at the reading room desk. The Zentralbibliothek collects literature published in the canton of Zurich, written by Zurich-born writers or pertaining to Zurich and its inhabitants, as well as literature pertaining to all of the disciplines taught at the University. The total holdings to date comprise over 5.1 million items. In addition to 3.9 million monographs and periodicals, this includes manuscripts, graphic documents, maps, microforms, audio items, sheet music and newspapers. The Zentralbibliothek Zürich, together with the University of Zürich, hold licenses for over 500 databases and 35'000 electronic journals (fulltexts). Documents from the following libraries of IDS Information Network can be ordered on-line for direct delivery by courier to the Zentralbibliothek Zürich (CHF 7.- per volume):     Basel: Berne: Lucerne: St. Gallen: Universitätsbibliothek Basel, WWZ-Bibliothek Zentralbibliothek Bern, Basisbibliothek Unitobler Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek Luzern Bibliothek der Universität St. Gallen, Kantonsbibliothek St. Gallen (Vadiana) The documents ordered by IDS-courier are generally delivered within two working days and available for pickup for a week. They may be returned at any of the above mentioned courier libraries. Documents from non-affiliated IDS-libraries are ordered through the interlibrary loan service of the Zentralbibliothek Zürich (subject to charges). The required on-line order form is accessible through the personal user account located in the library catalogue. Copies of journal articles from the IDS-affiliated libraries are usually directly ordered on-line. In all other cases the interlibrary loan service for journal articles will process orders sent using the respective on-line order form available on the ZB-website. Zähringerplatz 6, 8001 Zürich Tel. 044 268 31 00, Fax 044 268 32 90 www.zb.uzh.ch, zb@zb.uzh.ch Stand: 2.5.2011