Books and periodicals not located in reading rooms are stored in stack rooms within the Library (on all floors) and also in external buildings.
You can send a stack room request from home with the help of the online catalog.
If a document is available only in a stack room (i.e. it cannot be found in the reading rooms), the reader can make a request by clicking the Document Request button.
Documents in the stack rooms can be borrowed or used locally: the desired option can be selected when sending the request.
If a document is requested for local use, it will become available from the librarian at the reading area desk, and has to be returned to the same place.
The periodicals of the stack rooms are excluded from borrowing.
Stack room requests take roughly 35-40 minutes within the building (depending on how busy the service is). From external stack rooms documents are delivered to the library twice a week: requests submitted between Tuesday and Thursday can be picked up on Friday from 9am; those submitted between Friday and Monday on Tuesday from 9am. You will receive a confirmation message as soon as the document is available.
The current status of your storage requests sent online can be checked on the television screens located in the Library, and on this webpage. Please note that while the information is regularly updated on the TV screens, the web page has to be refreshed every single time.
Requests should be submitted until 7pm (regular opening hours) or no later than 1 hour before the closing of the Circulation Desk (during special opening hours).