University Library

Opening Hours

Opening hours during the semester*:

Please use the return box in the cloakroom for returns outside the opening hours.

Please note that there is only limited service at the information desk between 12 and 2pm.

The library is closed on weekends and public holidays.

 

Equipment

• reading room: 30.000 books in open access
• 11 research workstations
• 43 reading places
• the Library offers five separate reading desks that you can book in advance. For more information see “Terms of Use for individual carrels” (German only).
• 2 separate rooms for learning and working
• news lounge with current daily papers and more than 400 magazines and journals
• extensive media library
• special collections reading room
• copy room, scanning options
• 1 Standalone PC
  • Microsoft Office 16 (Word, Excel, …)
  • USB ports (enabled)
  • 7-ZIP File Manager
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader
  • Corel PDF Fusion
  • VLC Media Player
  • GIMP (Image editing software)
  • Headphones (Model: AKG K52)

Copying & Scanning

• There are two supervisory scanners available for free scanning in the Library.
• Scan per email or use your own memory stick.
• Send your scan files either to your email address or save them on your memory stick.
• Copy cards can be borrowed from the library information desk for a fee of 1€ and must be returned after use.
• One charger for copy cards is available at Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2 and another one at Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7 in the kitchenette (room no. 111, 2^nd floor).

WLAN

• access for members of the Angewandte using their matriculation number or personnel number
• via EDUROAM for members of universities participating in the EDUROAM project

Access

• barrier-free
• mandatory use of cloakroom

Classification

• All the information you need on completing your studies
• the University's Repository

• Proposals for your cover/title page design
• Instructions on how to upload your final thesis

The University Library's collections

 
Collection focuses

• Art, architecture and contemporary design
• New forms of art
• Exhibition catalogues of all major museums, galleries, and art exhibition halls across the world
• Theory of art, design and architecture, especially from the Anglo-American world
• Art journals, architecture and design journals, including photo, fashion, graphics and multimedia journals
• Artists' videos

Special collections

Costume and fashion collection
Location: Sammlung Mode und Textil, Postgasse 6, 1. Stock, 1010 Vienna, Tel +43 1 71133-2841

Conservation and restoration
Location: Institute of Conservation, and Chair of Technical Chemistry, Expositur Salzgries

Artists' books
Small editions designed by artists, rare exhibition catalogues, books incorporating special materials or insertions. 7.301 items (by July 2024). Dara Birnbaum, Christian Boltanski, Hanne Darboven, Dan Graham, Jenny Holzer, Ilja Kabakov, Yves Klein, Joseph Kosuth, Matt Mullican, Dieter Roth, Laurence Weiner, Christopher Wool, ...
Browse the collection here.

Women-related literature
'Virtual library'. Monographs on female artists, architects, designers, photographers, ... , feminist art theory, feminist disciplines, iconography of female depictions, gender discussions, women’s studies, women’s galleries, ...
Browse the collection here.

Surrealism-Collection
Original literature of Surrealism. About 250 monographies and magazines, e.g. by André Breton, Paul Éluard, Max Ernst.
Browse the collection here.

Japanese woodcut books
100 artistically significant works from the second half of the 19^th cenury.
Browse the collection here.

Illustrated materials
Approximately 100 collections and 500 single plates dating from the 19th century - ornaments, depictions of nature, facsimile editions of art and craft objects.

Clemens Holzmeister Estate
Written material, plans and drawings, photographs, slides.

Ingeborg Strobl's Printed Materials Archive
In the summer of 2000, Ingeborg Strobl made a generous donation to the University Library, comprising a collection of all the printed materials she had designed: invitation cards, flyers, leaflets, (magazine) issues, exhibition catalogues and artists’ books. The concept of “print media” played an exceptionally significant role in Strobl’s work, oscillating between “anonymous” yet identifiable “direct mail” and a distinct artistic and political agenda. Among other things, Ingeborg Strobl produced cheaply printed booklets which were made available for visitors to take freely at her exhibitions.
The "Ingeborg Strobl Archive" comprises around 300 items, with inventory numbers 35665–35678.
It may be viewed by prior appointment (entlehnung@uni-ak.ac.at, tel. +43 1 71133-2268).
 

Return of books/media

• During our opening hours, you can return any borrowed items using our self-service terminals. Please place any items that have been marked as "returned" on the trolleys next to the terminals.
• Outside opening hours, please return your items to the return box in the Library's cloakroom.

Viewing artists' books

Opening Hours

Opening hours during the semester*:

Please use the return box in the cloakroom for returns outside the opening hours.

Please note that there is only limited service at the information desk between 12 and 2pm.

The library is closed on weekends and holidays.

 

• photo ID and proof of residence (also possible via ID Austria) required

• School students: valid student identity card

• If you wish to extend your card, please end us an e-mail along with scans of all other required documents. We will then notify you as to how long the period of extension will be.
• All paid annual cards will be extended by the period of time that the library was temporarily closed.
• As a student of the Angewandte, you must notify the office of Student and Academic Affairs of any change to your address.

• 4 weeks
• Exception: the loan perion for books and media from other university departments is 2 weeks and may only be extended once
• option to extend the loan period prior to the due date on use of supA Search Portal Angewandte or by e-mail
• separate regulations for diploma students/graduates and in-house university members

• With the exception of annual card holders, loan periods of items are automatically extended by four weeks, prior to their date of expiry (Exception: the loan periods of books and media from other university departments can only be extended once for a further 2 weeks). However, it is not possible to extend a loan period if the item has been pre-booked or, for example, because other items are due for return or fees are payable. In that case, you will receive a written reminder.
• You can extend your media loans anytime via your user account. To do this, please sign in to our search portal supA with your account.

• items require ordering on our search portal supA

• We will inform you as soon as your ordered media are ready for you to collect and as to how long they will be available.

• available on the following workday.

• may be booked for 1 week.

• Items require ordering on our search portal supA.
• We will inform you as soon as your ordered media are ready for you to collect and as to how long they will be available.
• The loan perion for items from other university departments is 2 weeks and may only be extended once.

• optionally use supA Searchportal Angewandte
• notification by e-mail
• ordered books are to be found in the shelf next to the information desk. The books are reserved for one week. Please use the self-service terminal to borrow the books in the shelf.

• You can reserve books for one week in the reading room.

• Please note that a fee is normally charged for an interlibrary loan.
• Please send your interlibrary loan requests to interlibrary loans.
• You will be notified as soon as the ordered books/media have been issued to your account and may be picked up.

• Borrowed media items can be returned during library opening and by using the self-service terminals. Media that has been entered as “returned” is to be placed on the trolleys next to the terminals.
• Outside of our opening hours, the return box in the Library‘s cloak room area can be used.