In the Central Library (ZB) you can find the textbook collection for all subjects as well as the reading room collection with a focus on agricultural and natural sciences. Monographs and journals are systematically organized. Books on the same topic are therefore usually found together.

In the Departmental Library (BB), the monographs in the reading room as well as journals in the journal reading room are also arranged systematically.

External storage of partial holdings

For space-saving reasons, the KIM Library is forced to store part of the older literature in external stacks. You can order media from these stacks as an online request from the Hohenheim Catalogue. Usually, you can pick these orders up after 2 pm on the next business day in the Central Library. It is NOT possible to pick up books directly from the external stacks.

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Call numbers

Central Library

Books in the Central Library usually have a (relatively long) call number which starts with two letters and are usually either in the location “textbook collection” or “reading room ZB”.

Departmental Library

Books in the Departmental Library usually have a call number which starts with four numbers and a slash and are usually located in the “reading room BB”. You can use a table (on a board at the circulation counter or online) to see the reading room in the Departmental Library in which a book can be found.

Types of borrowing

Borrowable books are marked in the Catalogue with their availability. If all copies are checked out, you can place a hold here.