Learning and reading rooms
Our reading rooms are equipped for comfortable working, reading and studying. You have your own open access area where you can find specialist literature and reference books. You can reserve reading places up to 10 days in advance or make use of free spaces on site.
Innrain 52f, ground floor
With 352 reading and study spaces and Opening hours seven days a week, a popular meeting place for students of all disciplines.
Facilities:
- 352 reading and study places
- WLAN, eduroam
- Scanner, copier
- Power sockets, chargers
- Daily and rental safe deposit boxes
- Room plan main library reading room
Facilities:
- 116 reading and study places, Wifi
- Media and interlibrary loans that may not be borrowed can be used here.
- Room plan Historical Reading Room
Media:
- Wide selection of Tyrolese books on various subjects - several thousand volumes are representative of our collection focus and the wide range of literature and publishing in the country.
- The range extends from encyclopaedias and reference works to volumes with regional, folkloristic and historical content. Other topics include legends and fairy tales, church and religion, but also architecture, art, nature, law, sport, transport and economics.
- Special space is given to historical journals, local chronicles from North, East and South Tyrol as well as Trentino, but also to the multi-layered regional literary and linguistic landscape.
Innrain 50, ground floor - connection between the old and new buildings of the main library.
40 places to work, learn, laugh and play.
Equipment:
- Reading and learning places
- Group workstations
- Parent-child learning stations
- Mobility corner
Main Library Old Building, Innrain 50, 2nd floor
In the reading room of Special collections, the collection holdings managed here can be viewed by appointment:
Contact:+43 512 507 2435, ulb-sosa@uibk.ac.at
Equipment:
- 6 workstations (with connection possibilities for laptops) and 1 PC workstation.
- Microfiche and microfilm reader
- UV lamp, luminescent film
Media:
- Manuscripts, fragments, printed matter from the 15th to the 18th century (Tyrolean prints up to 1850), bequests and deposits, maps, globes, atlases, graphics and drawings (Details on the holdings)
- Microfilms and microfiches, also of external holdings
- Historical catalogues and archive holdings of the ULB Tyrol
- Reference library with over 9,000 volumes, including catalogues of manuscripts and incunabula, bibliographies, repertories, text editions and other specialist literature on historical books as well as facsimile editions. Relevant literature / documentation on the historical holdings of the ULB Tyrol and other Tyrolean libraries as well as on Tyrolean book and library history.
Universitätsstraße 15, 1st floor
The sunny reading room scores with 320 reading places, generous opening hours and an EDP room with 35 PC workstations.
Facilities:
- 320 reading places
- Computer room with 35 PC workstations
- WLAN, eduroam
- Daily and rental safe deposit boxes
- Room plan SoWi 1st floor
- Room plan SoWi 2.OG
Karl-Rahner-Platz 1, ground floor
With a view of the inner courtyard - an insider tip for those who like it quiet.
Facilities:
- 90 reading places
- IT room with 19 PC workstations
- WLAN, eduroam
- Daily and rental safe deposit boxes
- Room plan FB Theology
Small but nice - with 24 reading places in a beautiful location above the roofs of Innsbruck.
Facilities:
- 24 reading places
- WLAN, eduroam
- Daily and rental safe deposit boxes
Centre for Ancient Cultures, Langer Weg 11, 2nd floor.
60 reading places in the Centre for Ancient Cultures.
Facilities:
- 60 reading places
- 14 of which are computer workstations
- WLAN, eduroam
- Daily and rental safe deposit boxes
Technikerstraße 19, at the Technikareal
110 recently renovated reading and study spaces
Equipment:
- 2 kiosk PCs for online research
- 2 PC workstations
- WLAN, eduroam
- scanner, copier
- Daily and rental safe deposit boxes
- Cloakroom keys: daily, weekly and monthly (Civil Engineering Building Learning Centre)
- Room plan Library Centre West
Christoph-Probst-Platz, Innrain 52, 2nd floor, room 2039
10 cosy reading places on the sunny side of the main university building - undisturbed learning in a quiet environment.
Facilities:
- 10 reading places
- 2 PC workstations
- Wifi
- Copying facilities
- Scanner (free of charge)