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University and City Library of Cologne

Room to learn: online and offline

You find workplaces with different technical equipment.

 

Main Library (Universitätsstr. 33):

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  • Red leather sofa
    Lounge furniture in group study room
  • Red leather seating island in group study room
    Lounge furniture in group study room
  • Workstation with eight chairs and monitor
    Workstations with large monitor
  • HDMI cable connected to laptop
    Permanently installed HDMI connection cables

Group workspace on the ground floor

32 workstations at 4 large tables, 3 of which are equipped with large monitors.
Connection to the monitors is possible using permanently installed connection cables via HDMI. You can use your own adapters for other connection types.

Workstations in the reading rooms

  • 800 workstations, of which approx. 300 have electricity.
  • Please bring your own laptop.
  • WLAN use via eduroam is possible. WLAN terms of use >>
  • Workstations without power supply: You can charge your mobile device during the break in the charging locker (reading room I, 1st floor).
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  • Blue still chair, table with four chairs, bouncing animals stand in front of it
    Still chairs, work tables, the Hippo & Bee bouncing animals and in the background the green KidsBox.
  • Painted tree on the wall, books hanging in the tree
    A big thank you goes to the colleagues from the painting workshop of the University of Cologne for their imaginative wall design of our parent-child room!
  • Two bouncy animals, in blue and orange
    After reading you can hop around the parent-child room with Hippo and Bee
  • Two blue children's armchairs with bookshelf and colorful play rug
    Armchair for "little" readers incl. bookshelf with children's books and literature for young parents.

On the 1st floor, next to reading room I, a parent-child room with all the amenities has been created. There you will find a breastfeeding chair, play carpets, four workstations with electricity, bouncing animals, comfortable children's chairs, a KidsBox, a blackboard including colourful chalk and much more. We have also thought of a pram parking space on the " bridge " in reading room I.
The KidsBox contains: books, Lego, cot, child's seat, changing mat, (gymnastics) mat, building blocks, pens, diapers

Information about the use:

  • The room is intended for parents with children.
  • Reservation is unfortunately not possible.
  • You will receive the key for the room at the reading room issue in reading room I.

The parent-child room was designed in coordination with the working group Studying with Children and the Career & Family Support of the University of Cologne.

Internet workstations

We offer 20 Internet workstations.

Internet room on the 1st floor

  • 8 workstations
  • These workstations are primarily intended for external users who would like to use our e-media in full text here.
  • Log in with the number of your library card.
  • Here you can use our entire range of databases, e-books and e-journals with a campus licence. You can save your results and take them home.

PCs on the 2nd floor gallery

  • 12 workstations - working like at home for students of the University of Cologne
  • Software equipment of the workstations
  • Access to our entire range of databases, e-books and e-journals plus the complete Office programme and easy downloading of your own programmes.
  • Log in here with your student or staff account.
  • You can easily print and save your research results.

Accessible work on 2nd floor

In the study cabins 5 - 8

You work with the following hardware and software specific to the handicapped: screen readers, flat bed scanners, ZoomText magnification software

Information on studies with restrictions

Persons with disabilities

Accessible lift

Toilets for disabled persons

eduroam: WLAN at the University of Cologne

45 charging lockers with sockets in reading room I for mobile devices

Department of Human Sciences (Gronewaldstr. 2)

We provide a total of 30 workstations with Internet access.

Multimedia workstations

  • 27 workstations - work like at home for students of the University of Cologne
  • 23 in the Human Sciences Reading Room and 4 in the Therapeutic Education Reading Room
  • Access to our entire range of databases, e-books and e-journals plus the complete Office programme as well as statistics and learning software packages.
  • Log in here with your student or staff account.
  • You can conveniently print and save your research results.

Internet workstations

  • 3 workstations - access for everyone with a library card to our entire range of databases, e-books and e-journals
  • 1 in the stacks and 2 in the remedial education reading room
  • Log in with the number of your library card.
  • You can save your results and take them home with you.

Ihre Ergebnisse können Sie speichern und mit nach Hause nehmen.

Workstations without PC/hardware equipment

52 power-supplied workstations in the Human Sciences Reading Room - study and work on site with and without a laptop.
Please bring your laptop with you. Students and employees of the University of Cologne and guests from other universities can use the WLAN via eduroam at the University of Cologne.

eduroam: WLAN at the University of Cologne