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, Monday - Friday 8 am - 12 pm, Saturday - Sunday 8 am - 6 pm
With 525 reading and study spaces and Opening hours seven days a week, a popular meeting place for students of all disciplines.
Facilities:
- 525 reading and study places
- Wifi, eduroam
- Scanner, copier
- Power sockets, chargers
- Daily and rental safe deposit lockers
- 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- The range extends from encyclopaedias and reference works to volumes with regional, folkloristic and historical content.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, Monday - Friday 9 am - 5 pm
40 places to work, learn, laugh and play.
Equipment:
- Reading and learning places
- Group workstations
- Parent-child learning stations
Main Library Old Building, Innrain 50, 2nd floor, Monday - Thursday 9 am - 5 pm, Friday 9 am - 2 pm
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, Monday - Friday 8 am - 10 pm, Saturday 8 am - 6 pm
The sunny reading room scores with 307 reading places, generous opening hours and an EDP room with 35 PC workstations.
Facilities:
- 307 reading places
- Computer room with 35 PC workstations
- Wifi, eduroam
- Daily and rental safe deposit lockers
- Room plan SoWi 1st floor
- Room plan SoWi 2.OG
Karl-Rahner-Platz 1, ground floor, Monday - Thursday 9 am - 7 pm, Friday 9 am - 4 pm
With a view of the inner courtyard - an insider tip for those who like it quiet.
Facilities:
- 115 reading places
- IT room with 19 PC workstations
- Wifi, eduroam
- Daily and rental safe deposit lockers
- Room plan FB Theology
Small but nice - with 24 reading places in a beautiful location above the roofs of Innsbruck.
Facilities:
- 24 reading places
- Wifi, eduroam
- Daily and rental safe deposit lockers
Innrain 52a, 2nd floor, Monday - Friday 8 am - 8 pm
Facilities:
- 115 reading places
- 4 reservable rooms for groups up to 6 people
- 2 selfcheck-stations, one with pay function
- 2 scanner
- 394 lockers
- Wifi, eduroam
- Daily and rental safe deposit lockers
Technikerstraße 19, Campus Technic, Monday - Thursday 9 am - 7 pm, Friday 9 am - 4 pm
116 recently renovated reading and study spaces
Equipment:
- 2 kiosk PCs for online research
- 2 PC workstations
- Wifi, eduroam
- scanner, copier
- Daily and rental safe deposit lockers
- 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, Monday - Thursday 9 am - 5 pm, Friday 9 am - 2 pm
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)