We Are Reopening – “Adjusted Normal Operations” at the Central Library from 11 May
The reading room is to be reopened for employees of Forschungszentrum Jülich in compliance with the appropriate regulations Visitors will continue to be prohibited from entering the premises until further notice.
Our portals and digital services can be used from home via Shibboleth or VPN. All of the Central Library’s (ZB) other services will be adapted.
Individual consultation and changed opening times
Reading room opening with safety restrictions and hygiene measures
Other rooms in the Central Library subject to restrictions
Literature requests operating (almost exactly) as during normal operations
Training courses being carried out online
Literature search, scientific publishing, language, and bibliometrics services never stopped
Your contacts at ZB
7 May 2020
In cooperation with the crisis management group, the Central Library will be reopening from 11 May. The reopening is also being carried out in line with the regulations adopted by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the recommendations made by the German Library Association.
Intranet – Forschungszentrum Jülich’s newsletter archive – Extra-Newsletter of Forschungszentrum Jülich about Coronavirus (07.05.2020)
German Library Association (dbv) – Recommendations for reopening libraries (23.04.2020) (in German)
North Rhine-Westphalia state government – Landesportal – Coronavirus (in German)
Individual consultation and changed opening times
We are back at the information desk and ready to help you. You are bound to notice the sneeze guard that has been placed at the desk as a hygiene measure. We are also of course available to help you over the phone and via email – with no extra safety measures required.
The reading room is open from 08:00 until 17:00 during adjusted normal operations, with 19 workspaces available. You can also leave the reading room after 17:00 via the night exit. It will still not be possible to gain access to the reading room at night or at weekends. In addition to the reading room, we have set up 28 workspaces for you in the foyer. The foyer is open from 08:00 to 20:00. We also recommend using our reading garden as a place to work when the weather is good.
Reading room opening with safety restrictions and hygiene measures
- Minimum distance: Please keep a minimum distance of 2 metres from other people in the Central Library. If this is not possible, please use a face mask.
- Control on the number of visitors: When the necessary distance is maintained and requirements are met, 35 people can use the reading room at the same time, with 19 of them working at the designated workspaces. In addition, 28 people can use the individual workspaces set up in the foyer.
- Disinfection: Please use the disinfectant dispenser we have set up to disinfect your hands.
- Visitor registration: Please enter your contact details (name, institute) and the time you entered the reading room or foyer in our logbook if you are staying for longer to work there. Please use your own pen for this. The pencils that we have provided are meant for just one person. Please take the pencil with you after you have entered your details.
- Returning books: It is simplest both for you and us if you return the media you have borrowed by internal mail. If you would like to return your books in person in the reading room, please place them on the designated table near the entrance.
- Newspapers and popular science journals: Daily newspapers and journals cannot be read in the reading room. We are happy to send you scanned articles from the journals. Please use the literature request form for this. We have stopped ordering daily newspapers for the reading room.
Other rooms in the Central Library subject to restrictions
- In the foyer we have set up 28 individual workspaces for you. You can use these provided that you adhere to the applicable safety requirements and hygiene measures.
- The reading garden is open and offers additional individual workspaces.
- Conference room 338 can be used for meetings of up to 10 people.
- Seminar room 301 can be used for meetings of up to 6 people.
- The stacks, lecture theatre, other meeting rooms, and the “gegenüber” students’ lounge remain closed until further notice.
Literature requests operating (almost exactly) as during normal operations
We are carrying out almost the same amount of literature requests, interlibrary loans, and scanning requests for you as usual. There may still be delays with interlibrary loans from other libraries.
Borrowing books from institute libraries and collections depends on the regulations in the respective institutes. We are accepting your borrowing requests and will carry them out with the institute collections if possible.
Literature Request
Training courses being carried out online
During the transition from basic operations to normal operations, we will generally be carrying out our training courses and consultations as web conferences or webinars. The technology we will use for this will be either Jülich’s BigBlueButton or WebConf, which is provided by Deutsches Forschungsnetz (DFN).
Please register for the training courses with our colleagues in the reading room and contact the relevant ZB employees for an individual consultation. You will then receive the login details via email.
Intranet (ZB) – Training courses at the Central Library
Registration for ZB training courses: ZB-Auskunft
Literature search, scientific publishing, language, and bibliometrics services never stopped
You can continue to make electronic use of our other services. We are happy to advise you and look forward to receiving any questions or comments you may have, whether via our portals, by email, over the phone, or via the ZB Contact Box..
Your contacts at ZB
Your usual contacts can be reached by email.
Contact us to arrange a consultation over the phone, via web conference, or by email.
Internet (ZB) – Members of staff
We are available for you in the reading room from 08:00 to 17:00.
Email: ZB-Auskunft
Tel: 02461 61-6110
ZB Contact Box