Enrolling in the Lending Library

Lending Library: provides textbooks and set books (recommended and compulsory).

In the Lending Library, you can:

• borrow books to take home,
• use the last copy of any title on site,
• request a copy (also from other domestic and foreign libraries) of publications unavailable in the PUEB Main Library and other libraries in Poznań,
• activate or renew a Reader Account,
• return borrowed books,

• settle a clearance slip.

 

To enroll in the Lending Library:

• come to the Lending Library  in person,
• fill in and personally sign (in the presence of a librarian on duty the enrolment declaration,

• present a document:
  – PUEB employees – identity card and proof of employment or appropriate card (employee, insurance card or pensioner card),
  – PUEB students – an electronic student ID card or a student book and an ID card,
  – PUEB PhD students – a valid doctoral student ID card and an identity card,
  – post-graduate students of the PUEB – an identity card (an additional condition for registration is that the Lending Library receives a list of students of postgraduate studies from the head of the respective studies),
  – PUEB academic students (adults only) – valid school ID (additional condition for registration is that the Lending Library receives from the head of the relevant post-graduate studies a list of students of these studies).
  (An additional condition for registration is that the Lending Library receives from the faculty coordinators of the “PUEB Academic Track” project list of students in those classes),
  – other users – a valid reader’s card from their home university and an identity card or a valid student ID card.

• settle a fee of PLN 12.

 

For those setting up an account, there is an option to use the Library’s self-enrollment form, which you can find in the online catalogue tab “Reader’s account” – click on the “No account? Sign up” button. Filling in the form will reduce the time it takes to complete the formalities at the Lending Library, but remember that this visit is necessary anyway (you will complete the registration and payment there).

 

Reader Card

The document confirming enrolment in the Lending Library is a Reader Card, which is one of the following:

• the electronic student card (ELS) if the student was enrolled with this card,
• a separate Reader Card – issued by the Lending Room if the enrolment was based on another ID card,
• a reader’s card – issued by another library of a public university affiliated to the Poznań Research Libraries Foundation and activated by the Lending Room.

The Reader Card enables you to:

• use the Lending Room,
• access your Reader Account,

• access to databases outside the PUEB – logging on to licensed electronic resources subscribed to by the PUEB Main Library from home computers.*

* this feature is available only to PUEB employees, PhD students and students (of all types of studies) enrolled in the Lending Room

and have a valid Reader Card in the current academic year

 

Reader Account

The Lending Library sets up an e-Reader Account for each person who has enrolled. This can be used from the time of enrolment until the end of the current academic year (31 October).

After the end of the academic year – if the user is still interested in the services of the Lending Room – they do not have to sign up again, they just need to extend (activate) the validity of their account.

You can check your account balance and its expiry date yourself on the Internet via the Library’s online catalogue.

 

Once in the catalogue, select the tab: Reader Account and log in by entering:

• reader card number (8 digits located below or above the barcode),
• your password (4 digits – the default password is 2 digits of the month and 2 digits of the day of your birth date, e.g. 1130).