Library registration

Registrations for our Library take place at the Lending Library.

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

In the Lending Library, you can:

• borrow books to take home,
• request a copy (also from other domestic and foreign libraries) of publications unavailable in the PUEB Main Library and other libraries in Poznań (service available to PUEB students, PUEB PhD students and PUEB employees),
• return borrowed books,
• settle a clearance slip.

 

How do you sign up for our Library?

There are two ways to sign up for our Library:

• online – via the Library’s online catalogue, by selecting the option: Create an account,
• in person – at the Lending Library.

If you register online, you can immediately:

• reserve books to borrow from the Lending Library,
• reserve items for use in the Reading Room.

During your first visit to the Lending Library, all you need to do is:

• show your identity card and student ID, PhD student ID or another document confirming your status,
• complete and sign the registration form to finalise the formalities.

If you prefer to register in person, please visit the Lending Library with your identity card and your student ID, PhD student ID or another document confirming your status. You will then complete and sign the registration form on the spot.

If you are not a student, PhD student or member of staff at the Poznań University of Economics and Business (PUEB), you will be asked to pay a fee of 12 PLN for the issue of a library card when you visit the Lending Library.

 

Reader Card

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

• the electronic or mobile PUEB student ID card,
• the electronic or mobile PUEB doctoral student ID card,
• reader card – issued to authorised users who do not have a PUEB student/doctoral student ID card.

 

The Reader Card enables you to:

• use the Lending Library,
• access to the Reading Room’s collections held in the Library’s archives,
• access your Reader Account,
• remote access to databases from computers, phones, tablets, etc. not connected to the PUEB network, located outside the Main Library and PUEB buildings *.

*This access can be used after logging in by UEP employees, doctoral students and students with a valid reader account.

 

Reader Account

Anyone who registers for the Library is issued with an electronic reader’s account.

You can use your Reader Account to:

• check your account balance,
• view your borrowing history,
• order and reserve items,
• pay late return fees for borrowed books via the Przelewy 24 app,
• extend the return deadline for borrowed items (in accordance with the applicable rules).

The account is available for the duration of your studies or employment at PUEB. If you are not affiliated with PUEB, your account will remain active for 12 months.

To login to your Reader’s Account in the Library’s online catalogue, provide:

• the email address you provided when you registered, or your reader card number (the album number if you registered using mLegitymacja, or the 8 digits located above or below the barcode on your electronic ID card or reader card),
• the password you created yourself (if you are logging in for the first time to an account created by a librarian, select the option: ‘Forgotten your password?’).