University Library
The Special Collections Room on the third floor of the University Library has twenty work stations intended exclusively for consulting special materials.
Library card holders may consult materials from the collection of manuscripts, incunables, papyri, works printed up till 1875, younger valuable and bibliophilic editions, pamphlets, brochures, legacies, atlases and historical maps under supervision.
holders may consult materials from the collection of manuscripts, papyri, works printed up till 1875, younger valuable and bibliophilic editions, pamphlets, brochures, legacies, atlases and historical maps under supervision.
A number of house rules apply in the reading room.
You must sign the guest book at the desk every time you visit the reading room. Most of the printed materials from the special collections can be requested via the catalogue. Only the materials stored in the strongroom, indicated by call numbers starting with ‘uklu’, must be requested via request slips, which are available from the desk.
Visitors consulting materials from the strongroom will be assigned a seat at one of the tables in the front rows by the reading room attendant.
Notes may only be made in pencil or on a laptop computer. Pencils are sold at the desk.
Users must follow the reading room attendant’s instructions.
There is a working library in the reading room with the most important catalogues and bibliographies of manuscripts and old editions, works on palaeography, illumination and the history of printing, as well as reference material in the field of cartography.
A printers’ register for the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries is available for searching by author name and place of publication / name of printer. This microfiche register is no longer kept up-to-date.
Reading equipment for microfilms and microfiches, a watermark lamp and a UV lamp are available.
There is an instruction room intended exclusively for courses using materials from the special collections.
