Books

You are looking for a specific book or books on a given topic? When searching for books, there are local, regional and international catalogues available to you.

We recommend the following procedure for the catalogue search:

1. Search Hohenheim

The KIM Library’s complete holdings (Central and Departmental Library) and the institutes’ libraries starting around 1993 can be found in the literature search engine HohSearch.

The catalog gives information about the location of the book and its current availability. With the call number and location given, you can find the book on the shelves of the Central and Departmental Library. The room plans will help you.

The textbook collection is in the Central Library. Here you can find basic literature on all subjects. Books in the textbook collection have several copies available and can be borrowed. In addition to the copies in the textbook collection, in the reading rooms there are is also one copy than cannot be borrowed. The presence copy of the social science, business, and economics books are in the Departmental Library.

If all borrowable copies of books are checked out, it is possible to reserve the book in the catalog.

2. Search in Stuttgart Libraries

If the book you need is not available in Hohenheim, you can expand your search to other Stuttgart libraries.

The Stuttgart Regional Catalog is a joint catalog of the academic libraries in the Stuttgart area. It offers you the possibility to conveniently search the various library holdings, such as the Stuttgart University Library, the Württemberg State Library, the universities in the Stuttgart area, as well as many other libraries, with just one search query.

Public library holdings are not included.

Books from the Stuttgart University Library and the Württemberg State Library can either be borrowed directly on site (prior registration at the libraries is required) or ordered via inter-library loan. Please use the inter-library loan portal for this purpose. Direct ordering from the regional catalog is not possible.

3. Search the South-West German Union Catalogue (SWB)

The SWB catalog lists the media holdings of more than 1,000 academic libraries in Baden-Württemberg, Saxony, and Saarland.
You can order a title that is not available directly from the catalog in the inter-library loan. If there is an inter-library loan copy that can be ordered in the region, the “Inter-library Loan" button appears in the title view (under the details of the libraries that own a copy). This will redirect you to the inter-library loan portal where you can place your order.

4. Search throughout Germany and beyond

With the Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog (KVK), you can search simultaneously in the catalogs of all German library networks and in the catalogs of major German specialized libraries. Foreign catalogs as well as book trade directories are also available for selection.

The KVK lists literature, but a direct inter-library loan request from the result lists is not possible. To carry out an inter-library loan, use the inter-library loan portal. The fastest way to order is to search for the book you are looking for using the ISBN you have previously copied from the KVK.

Tips

Inter-library loan

Placing inter-library loan requests is not possible directly in all catalogs.
For this, please research directly in the inter-library loan portal. To save yourself work, it is best to use the ISBN of the previously researched hit when using the inter-library loan portal. As a rule, media from public library collections cannot be ordered.

Here you can find more information about inter-library loan.

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