Questions about Opening and Service Hours, Library Card, Password, and Address
Service hours are the times when there is library staff at the circulation desks.
Information on research, registration, borrowing and returning interlibrary loans, handling of blocked accounts, and payment of fees are only possible during service hours.
The service hours of the circulation desks are Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Outside of service hours, there is security staff in the building.
The reading rooms can be used without a library card at all times. Borrowing, requesting items, and the use of electronic resources, however, are not possible without a library card.
For students of the University of Stuttgart, the library card is integrated into the student ID card. Students log into the services of the University Library by using the student user ID st...
Employees of the University of Stuttgart with an ac-account receive a library card at one of the circulation desks during service hours after logging into SIAM using the university user ID ac... and acknowledging the University Library’s Terms of Use.
Employees of the University of Stuttgart without an ac-account need a valid German ID card, a passport or an electronic residence permit card (with an expiration date at least two months in the future), the filled out registration form and the filled out and stamped form as a confirmation about your status as an employee. On production, we will issue a library card for you at the circulation desk during service hours.
Private individuals / external users with a residence in the Federal Republic of Germany receive the library card when registering at the circulation desk during service hours. For this group of persons, the library card is issued at the circulation desk on production of a valid German ID card, an electronic residence permit card (with an expiration date at least two months in the future), or a passport in connection with an official certificate of residence. Minors additionally need the written consent of their legal representative.
Both the issuing of the library card and borrowing are free of charge.
Please report the loss of the library card immediately to the University Library. You will receive a replacement card at the circulation desk on production of an official photo ID for a fee of €2.50.
Please notify the Admissions Office directly about the loss of the student ID card ECUS. For a fee of €10 you will receive a replacement student ID card there.
The initial password is your date of birth with the prefix ub: ubDD.MM.YYYY
- Length must be between 8 and 26 characters.
- Minimum number of character type rules that must be met: 3
- Minimum lowercase letters: 1
- Minimum numeric: 1
- Minimum special characters: 1
- Minimum uppercase letters: 1
- Must not contain: user code (short form) as well as parts of the name, if longer than 2 characters each
You can make further password changes at https://siam.uni-stuttgart.de/.
Students of the University of Stuttgart: please turn to the user helpdesk of the TIK.
Employees of the University of Stuttgart with an ac-account: please turn to their IT admin.
Private individuals / external users / employees of the University of Stuttgart without an ac-account: please turn to one of the circulation desks via telephone or the contact form. There your password will be reset to the initial password which is your date of birth with the prefix ub in the form ubDD.MM.YYYY. Afterwards you have to change it to a higher quality one again.
Contact:
- Contact form of the circulation desks
- Telephone +49 711 685-82224 (City Center location) or +49 711 685-64096 (Vaihingen location)
See also:
The requirements for the password largely correspond to the relevant recommendations:
If you are a student of the University of Stuttgart, you report a change of address via the campus management portal C@MPUS. From there the data will be transferred to our library system.
Private individuals / external users can report a change of address directly to one of the circulation desks or via the contact form.
Students of the University of Stuttgart have the student email address stored in the library account automatically.
Employees of the University of Stuttgart with an ac-account have the university email address stored in the library account automatically.
Employees of the University of Stuttgart without an ac-account and private individuals / external users can enter the email address in their library account.
Questions about Item Locations, Requests, Provision of Items, and Borrowing
Use the catalog to determine if the desired item is in the University Library’s holdings.
At the bottom of the entry you find information on the „location“ and „availability“. Depending on the location of the item, it can be
- requested from the closed stacks or the other library location
- put on hold if presently on loan
- taken directly from the open shelves or the open stacks.
In the “Freihand” or “open shelves” area you can find the holdings that are open to the public and borrowable. They are sorted by subject.
Open stacks can only be found at the City Center location. They are a part of the stacks that has been set up to be open to the public. The items are borrowable and sorted just very roughly by major subject groups. A search in the catalog in advance is recommended.
Printed periodicals are mostly set up in separate areas in the reading room and are non-borrowable without the possibility of a short-term loan.
Within the subject group shelfmark for the desired volume, journals are sorted alphabetically by title within the subject.
Course reserve collections contain exam-relevant literature and important items for study courses that have been compiled at request of lecturers.
These items are non-borrowable.
The closed stacks are not open to the public. Please request items from these locations via the catalog of the University Library.
The closed stacks are manned from Monday to Friday between 10 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. If the location of item and pick-up is the same, the requested items are available for collection after approximately 20 minutes.
Items from the other library location will be available on the next day after approximately 1 p.m. Exception: items requested on Friday or Saturday will be available for collection on Monday after 1 p.m.
You can borrow 150 items in total.
You can check out items that are ready for collection on the pick-up shelves and items from the open shelves at the self-service stations during the entire opening hours. You open your library account by either scanning the barcode of your library card or placing your student ID card on the card reader. Then put the desired items on the marked surface and take note of the dialog on the screen. As soon as the items have been checked out successfully, you receive a loan period slip by pressing the Exit button, and your library account will be closed again.
For a part of the reference collection, there is the possibility of a short-term loan. You can check these items out at the circulation desk during service hours (Monday to Friday 8 a.m. - 6 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.), the loan period ends at noon on the seventh day after the checkout day.
A renewal of the loan period or an immediate new checkout is not possible.
They have to be returned at the library location where they have been checked out. In case of delayed return, short-term loans are subject to increased overdue fines.
Requested items are available for collection for 7 days.
If you have answered the question „Notification for provided items“ with „Yes“ during the request / placing a hold, you will receive an email if an email address is registered in the library account, otherwise a letter in which case you have to reimburse the postage.
Because they are old or need to be protected for other reasons or because they are loose-leaf collections.
Yes. Your account will only be blocked once the overdue fines have reached a minimum of €6.
No. Borrowing is only possible with a valid library card / student ID card of the University of Stuttgart.
Literature from the holdings of the institute libraries cannot be requested for pick-up at the University Library.
Please turn directly to the library in question, but note that the holdings are usually reference collections. As a rule, they are non-borrowable.
Electronic books and journals are listed in the catalog. Instead of a shelfmark, however, you will find a link for the title that leads to the book or journal.
The electronic offers (e-books, e-journals, databases) of the University of Stuttgart Library can be used by members of the University of Stuttgart, i.e. students or employees, from home via VPN or Shibboleth (you can find further informations here (DE)).
External users, i.e. users who are neither students nor employees of the University of Stuttgart, can only use these offers on the library premises at the designated library computers.
Question about Loan Periods, Loan Period Renewal, Return, Overdue Notices, and Loss of Items
The loan period is 1 month. It can be renewed a maximum of 5 times for 1 month each if no hold has been placed. After that, another online renewal is unfortunately not possible. If no hold has been placed on the item, you can just check it out again at the self-service station. It is not necessary to return it beforehand.
A renewal is possible 10 days at the earliest before the expiry of the current loan period. Renewal requests by telephone cannot be accepted.
Books of the University of Stuttgart Library can be returned at the return station during opening hours. A library card is not needed for the return.
Please return interlibrary loans or other items, such as CDs or microfiches, at the circulation desk during service hours, or leave them with the security staff outside of service hours to have them booked out of your account on the next workday.
At the Vaihingen location, there is a book drop next to the main entrance in which books and other items can be returned outside of opening hours. They will be booked in the library system on the next workday.
Items can be sent back to one of the circulation desks via mail at your own risk. Please take note that fees can incur in case of loss or damage of the items or a delay during shipping.
Items can be returned at the respective other library location.
Short-term loans are an exception. They have to be returned at the library location where they have been borrowed.
After the loan period has expired, there is a grace period of a few days before the 1st overdue notice is issued, after that the notices are issued at intervals of about 1 week.
The 1st notice is €1.50 per item, the 2nd notice €5, the 3rd and 4th notice are €10 per item each.
Overdue fines are added up.
They have to be paid in cash at one of the circulation desks during service hours.
Report the loss in time to one of the circulation desks. If the item cannot be found after a certain period of time, it has to be replaced.