Dear library users,
We are also taking a short winter break: the library will be closed from Wednesday, 24 December 2025, to Sunday, 4 January 2026.
We wish you relaxing and restful Christmas holidays. Stay healthy and have a great start to the New Year!
We wish all students every success with their exam preparation. To help you reduce stress, library puzzles are available in Study Room C001 and the relaxation room at Fabrikweg. Join in, puzzle together, and take a short break from exam stress!
Kind regards,
Your library Team
From 5 January, our service hours will return to normal:
Monday to Thursday: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Friday: 9:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Library opening hours:
Monday to Friday: 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Saturday: 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Please note: the library will be closed on 6 January (Epiphany).
The library of the University of Liechtenstein has joined SLSP. This means that its holdings will be searchable in swisscovery from 18 March 2024.
The University Library holds around 28,000 books, journals and non-books as well as 68,000 e-books, which will now be added to swisscovery. By participating in SLSP Courier, the library is making its physical holdings available to a wider audience in Switzerland. Jürgen Küssow, Vice Director and Head of Network Services at SLSP, is delighted about the accession: "With the library of the University of Liechtenstein, SLSP has gained its first international partner and is thus strengthening cross-border cooperation."
The integration and migration project of the University of Liechtenstein Library from Aleph to Alma started in September 2023 under the leadership of SLSP. In various project phases, the data was deduplicated, the migration was prepared, tested and carried out, the services were set up in swisscovery and the employees of the University of Liechtenstein Library were trained on Alma and swisscovery.
Ekaterina Vardanyan, Head of the University Library, sees this project as a milestone in the library's development: "Joining swisscovery and cooperating with the Swiss university libraries via the SLSP will enable us to significantly expand the media offering, modernize the most important business areas and thus increase the library's innovative strength."
With the completion of the project, swisscovery will grow to a total of approx. 23 million title recordings and approx. 41 million copies.
SLSP is a non-profit organization based in Zurich, whose sponsors are 15 universities and libraries in Switzerland. Founded in 2017, SLSP has been operating a national library platform for 500 academic libraries in Switzerland with the product swisscovery since 7 December 2020. The SLSP also includes the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries (CSAL), which centrally purchases licences for electronic resources for Swiss academic libraries and negotiates open access contracts.
Search directly in swisscovery and use other services such as SLSP Courier to have books sent to a library near you.
The Library of the University of Liechtenstein hosted the annual conference of the Regio Bodenseebibliotheken Association for the first time. Around 20 library directors from four countries in the Lake Constance and Alpine Rhine region attended the meeting in the university’s auditorium.
The University of Liechtenstein Library has been a member of the Regio Bodenseebibliotheken Association since its founding. The association includes 40 diverse libraries. The variety is reflected in this list: Zurich Central Library, University Library of St. Gallen, Schaffhausen Libraries, major German city and university libraries around Lake Constance, Vorarlberg State Library, Library of the University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg, three Liechtenstein libraries, and the Cantonal Library of Graubünden. The association maintains two databases focused on literature from the Lake Constance region. The “Bodensee-Zeitschriften” database was created in 2008 as a project funded by Interreg IV Alpenrhein-Bodensee-Hochrhein. It involved digitizing approximately 350,000 pages of core regional journals by libraries in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, and Vorarlberg. The second database contains the Euregio-Bodensee Bibliography, indexing over 100,000 books, journal articles, and anthology contributions on topics, places, and people of the Lake Constance area.
Under the theme “Small but Powerful,” the three Liechtenstein libraries introduced themselves during the first presentation block of the conference. They discussed current challenges and the approaches they are taking to address them. The year 2024 marked a significant turning point not only for the University Library but for the entire library system in Liechtenstein. The previously outdated online catalog of the Liechtenstein Library Network was replaced with a new library management system. This allowed the network to provide a modern search interface focused on the public audience.
The University Library also joined the Swiss Library Service Platform (SLSP), enabling it to offer swisscovery.li – a state-of-the-art discovery service. With the SLSP book courier, the university’s access to literature has significantly expanded by over 40 million titles.
In the second presentation block, Oliver Thiele introduced SHAI – the Digital Assistant of the Schaffhausen Libraries – developed using artificial intelligence. The conference concluded with an architectural tour led by Johannes Herburger.
The trip to Vaduz was certainly worthwhile for all attendees. They praised the well-organized event, warm hospitality, engaging presentations, and the opportunity to become more familiar with the University of Liechtenstein and its library.
