Public holidays and weekends

The Main Library  and the Department of Human Sciences will be closed on all public holidays.

01.01.2026 – New Year's Day
16.02.2026 – Carnival Monday
03.04.2026 – Good Friday
05.04.2026 – Easter Sunday
06.04.2026 – Easter Monday
01.05.2026 – Labor Day
14.05.2026 – Ascension Day
24.05.2026 – Pentecost Sunday
25.05.2025 – Pentecost Monday
04.06.2026 – Corpus Christi
03.10.2026 – German Unity Day
01.11.2026 – All Saints' Day
24.12.2026 – Christmas Eve
25.12.2026 – Christmas Day
26.12.2026 – Boxing Day
31.12.2026 – New Year's Eve

Opening hours

9.00 - 21.00

Service

• Borrowing
  You can borrow reserverd and ordered books from the pick-up shelves, books from the textbook collection and direct loans area by using the self-issue machines.
• Returning
  You return all media to the self-return machines and interlibrary loans of books at the Reading Room and Interlibrary Loans counter on the first floor.
• Charges and fees
  You can pay your charges and fees at the cash machine.

Library cards are not issued. The Historical Collections reading room remains closed.