Borrowing and Ordering

Items in the Library’s Open-Shelf Collection

• These items can be borrowed at any time using the self-check terminal (library card or student/staff ID required) or at the circulation desk during service hours.
• Available items from the open-shelf collection cannot be reserved.
• Borrowed items can be reserved via swisscovery.li. The recall notice to the borrower will be issued after the regular or guaranteed loan period has expired.

Items in the Two Closed Stack Locations

These items can be reserved via swisscovery.li. Once prepared, they will be checked out to your user account and will be available for collection in the library on the pick-up shelf until the end of the loan period.

One-Day Loan (24-Hour Loan)
Applies to items in the reference collection (marked with a red label). These items can only be borrowed for one day at the service desk.

On-Site Use

• Loose-leaf editions
• Items in the Architecture Course Reserve Collection

Use on Request

• Electronic versions of university theses (bachelor’s, master’s, dissertations). Please contact the library by email.
• Use of items in the reference collections must be arranged directly with the relevant reference collection. Contact details and times can be found in the document in the download area.

The loan period varies depending on the type of item.

• Books have a guaranteed loan period of 28 calendar days. The loan will be automatically renewed if there is no reservation by another user. A maximum of five renewals is possible. After that, the borrowed item must be returned to the library for check-in.
• Journal issues or volumes can be borrowed once for 14 days, with no renewal.
• Items in the reference collection can be borrowed for one day. They must be checked in again by closing time.

Borrowed items can be reserved via swisscovery.li. The recall notice to the borrower will be issued after the regular or guaranteed loan period has expired.

• If an item can no longer be renewed, we will ask you by email to return it.
• After the loan period has expired, please return the items within six days. On the seventh day, the first reminder will be sent automatically.
• Fees are processed directly through SLSP, the operator of swisscovery.
• You can view an overview of loan periods for borrowed items and reminder fees in your library account at swisscovery.li.

• Items borrowed from the libraries of the University of Liechtenstein can be returned at the service desk during opening hours or at any time via the return box.
• If items are returned during the service desk’s opening hours, they will be checked in on the same day.
• Items ordered via courier must be returned to the library where they were picked up or to another library that is part of the SLSP Courier network.

You have various ordering options in the search portal swisscovery.li:

• Reserving items (for local pick-up)
• Ordering items from SLSP libraries via courier and postal delivery
• Ordering digital copies

Ordering and Collecting Items from the University of Liechtenstein Library Collection

• Only borrowed items or items located in the closed stacks can be ordered via swisscovery.li. Available items can be taken directly from the shelves and borrowed.
• For ordered books, a pick-up notification will be sent to the email address you have saved in your SWITCH edu-ID. Occasionally, these emails may end up in your spam folder.
• Ordered items can be collected from the pick-up shelf in the library. They will already be checked out to your account.

Ordering and Collecting Items via Courier
Under "Further Order Options" in swisscovery.li, you can choose courier delivery and digitisation.

• You can order titles via the nationwide courier service or choose postal delivery to your home.
• The costs vary depending on the delivery method but will be displayed during the order process.
• For members of the University of Liechtenstein, courier orders with pick-up in the university library are free of charge.
• In the order form, you can select your preferred pick-up institution and location for courier deliveries or choose postal delivery.
• The indicated delivery time is an estimate. A pick-up notification will be sent by email.

• After arrival at the library, the items will be checked out to your account and made available on the pick-up shelf.

   

Interlibrary Loan
The library obtains items on behalf of users from other libraries that cannot be ordered via the swisscovery.li search portal.

If you are looking for a document that you cannot order yourself via swisscovery.li, or that is not available in any library in the shared swisscovery portal, we will be happy to order it for you.

Please use these options only if the item is not available in our library.

Detailed information and instructions can be found under Courier & Interlibrary Loan.

We are happy to receive your purchase suggestions for items that are missing from our collection.

Recommended Procedure

• Please first check in swisscovery.li to see whether the desired item is already available, on order or being processed.
• If the requested item fits our collection profile (which is based on the university’s teaching and research programmes) and the purchase cost is within our budget, it will be ordered.
• If we are unable to fulfil your purchase suggestion, we will inform you accordingly.
• You can indicate whether you would like the ordered item to be reserved for you directly.
• Please send us your purchase suggestion by email. Only proposals with complete bibliographic details can be considered.

Invoices are sent to you by email from SLSP and cover chargeable services from the month before last (for example, in May you will receive the invoice for services from March).

The SLSP FAQ provides guidance on what to do if you have any questions or issues related to invoices.