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Study Environments

Individual Study

Individual Study Zones
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  • the collection is directly accessible
  • WiFi in all areas
  • power sockets for laptop use
  • 85 monitors for connecting private laptops
  • Tischapparate for exam candidates

Location:

  • In the entire library
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At each of the PC workstations in the library you can:

  • use the library catalogue and do database searches
  • save files on USB flash drive
  • use the complete software environment like in the BITS (University IT-Service-Center), e.g. office applications and complete internet access (accessible with BITS user authentication by clicking the "person" icon in the taskbar)

Location:

  • In the entire library
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How about reading your textbooks in a pleasant ambience?

Cosy reading corners with armchairs invite you to relax and browse through the books. You will find the reading corners in each library section near the entrance.

In the Library Service Center you will find the Journal Reading Corner with numerous local, national and international newspapers and the Reading Corner with the news magazines: art, Chip, Cicero, Emma, Focus, Geo, Natur & Kosmos, Öko-Test, Spiegel, Stern and Test.

Group Work

Discussion Rooms
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  • Separate Rooms for group work with up to 4 or 8 persons (depending on room size)
  • Partially equipped with SMART Boards, (physical) whiteboards or LCD television for presentations etc.
  • Mon – Fri, from 8 – 18 only for students of Bielefeld University after reservation. Reservation is not necessary / possible after 18.00 and on weekends

Discussion Rooms in the Departmental Library UHG-I (Main University Building, Entrance Area D1):

  • E1-125 (with SMART Board)
  • E1-137 (Parent-Child-Room)
  • E1-139
  • E1-151

Discussion Rooms in the Departmental Library UHG-II (Main University Building, Entrance Area U1):

  • T1-225 (with SMART Board)
  • U1-142
  • U1-203a
  • U1-203b
  • U1-216
  • V1-203
  • V1-205 (with SMART Board)
  • V1-207 (Parent-Child-Room)

Discussion Rooms in Departmental Library Building X:

  • F1-205
  • F1-207
  • F1-209
  • F1-211
  • F1-213
  • F1-227 (Parent-Child-Room)
  • F1-229 (with SMART Board)
  • F1-231 (with SMART Board)
  • F1-233 (with LCD)
  • F1-235
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  • group work in open reading rooms
  • conversations explicitly allowed
  • homely furniture for individual or collaborative working and communicating in a relaxed atmosphere
  • WiFi, power sockets
  • equipped with whiteboards and LCD television for presentations, the "Lernort.plus!" is equipped with a SMART Boards (electronic board with PC-feature)

Locations:

  • Library Service Center, Area U0 ("Lernort.plus!" - entrance via U1)
  • Departmental Library UHG-I, Area E1
  • Departmental Library UHG-II, Area U1

Advice and Support

You will get qualified reference and information retrieval assistance Mon – Fri 8 – 18 by librarians at the Service Desk in the Library Service Center, which is located in Area U0 right next to the Lernort.plus.

 

 

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