Library

• Members of the Hochschule Niederrhein (students, staff, lecturers) can find their digital library card in the iHN university app.
• All residents of North Rhine-Westphalia and students at german universities can submit an application for access online (see ‘Registration’ in the Index).
• A valid library number is required to borrow items.

• The standard loan period is 28 days. The maximum loan period is 140 days. The loan period can be extended as early as the day after the item is borrowed. It is extended by a maximum of 28 days. Items on reserve and interlibrary loans are excluded from renewal.
• For semesters spent abroad or during internship semesters, as well as for theses, applications can be made for longer loan periods (see ‘Longer loan periods ’ in the A–Z guide).

The following overdue charges apply, depending on the length of the delay in returning the item or renewing the loan:

1–10 calendar days: €2.00 per item
11–20 calendar days: €5.00 per item
21–30 calendar days: €10.00 per item
31–40 calendar days: €20.00 per item
41 calendar days or more: €20.00 + €25.00 administration fee + replacement value per medium in the event of permanent loss

Please make use of the bank transfer option, providing the following details:

Payee: Hochschule Niederrhein
Bank: Stadtsparkasse Mönchengladbach
Reference: Late payment fee MG/KR / User number
IBAN: DE55 31050000 000 3425451
BIC/Swift code: MGLSDE33

• items with yellow shelf mark labels
• Journal volumes and issues
• Loose-leaf editions
• items from the course reading collections

… please contact

• from the library staff on site
• use the index section on the library website
• our helpline: +49 2161 186-3400 (Mon–Fri 10a.m.–4p.m.)
• by email: bibliotheksauskunft(at)hs-niederrhein.de

Interlibrary loan items can be collected and returned during the library’s opening hours. You will need your digital library card in the iHN app to do this. If you do not have a digital card, you can ask at the counter for a printed card with a barcode.
 

Pick up
Your ordered items are ready for you at our pick up station. Please ensure you keep the accompanying letter together with the item.
 

Returning items to
There are two ways to return items:

• At the collection point: Here you can return the items yourself by scanning the accompanying letter.
• At the counter: Please hand in the item, together with the accompanying letter, directly to personnel.

Returning items to security staff is not permitted.
 

Special case: Items for reading room use only
Some rare or valuableitems may not leave the library and can only be used on the premises. You can view these items during the following times:

• Mönchengladbach Library: Mon–Fri 08a.m.–19p.m.
• Krefeld South Library: Mon–Fri 08a.m.–16p.m.
• Krefeld West Library: Mon–Fri 08a.m.–18p.m.

Please place your order via the Digital Library (DigiBib). The order form can be found in the “Search” menue (ILL).

For detailed information on the ordering process, please refer to the help texts in the ‘Downloads’ or ‘Info’ sections.

As a rule, media such as books, extracts from books, journal articles, CDs, CD-ROMs, Blu-rays, DVDs and much more can be ordered.

The following items cannot be requested via the interlibrary loan service:

• Items held in the university library’s local collection, even if they are currently on loan or on the reserve list
• E-books, e-journals, full-text databases
• Theses (diploma or Bachelor's theses, etc.)
• Works available in bookshops for up to 15.00 euros
• For conservation reasons, volumes of newspapers and journals are rarely dispatched
• Loose-leaf editions and unbound journals (copies available)
• Works of particular value, especially those from the 16th to the 18th centuries
• Standards and patents
• For items published in the current year (new publications), we recommend submitting a purchase proposal, as recent literature is in high demand and rarely available

A fee of 1.50 euros is charged for each interlibrary loan request and applies even if the requested item cannot be supplied. Multiple consecutive articles must be placed as separate orders.

You should allow an average of 10 working days for the delivery of book orders.

For essays, you will receive an email containing a download link to a PDF file, which you can access within 30 days. In exceptional cases, paper copies will still be supplied and made available for you at your chosen collection point. Please allow an average of 5 working days for the delivery of essay orders.

The loan period is determined by the lending library’s guidelines and may vary. Extensions are not permitted. If you have any questions regarding the loan period, please contact fernleihe(at)hs-niederrhein.de.

• In the interests of everyone, please avoid making unnecessary noise and keep the noise level to a reasonable level, even in the coworking spaces.
• Food and drink (apart from drinks in securely sealable bottles) are not permitted.
• Please leave the room clean and tidy.
• You can borrow whiteboard materials from the supply shelf under ‘Library of Things’. Please check them out using the self-check-out machine. The boxes must be returned on the same day.

• Click on the relevant timetable for your campus on the right.
• Log in using your university ID and the corresponding password. Enter the university ID of a second person.
• Booking takes just two clicks. The first click selects the start time, the second click the end time. After the first click, the available booking slot of 3 hours appears in coloured boxes.
• For bookings for the current day or the following day, the second person must complete the registration process using their university ID and corresponding password. For bookings made further in advance, the second person’s university ID is sufficient; in this case, the room is merely reserved. The second person must confirm the booking by entering their password in the booking portal no later than two days before the desired date; otherwise, the reservation will lapse.
• You will receive a booking confirmation. Please keep this email so that you can produce it on request.
• Bookings can be made up to one week in advance. A maximum of 3 hours per day per person can be booked. If you have several bookings in one day, there must be a break of at least 2 hours between them.
• Your right to the booking will lapse if you do not occupy the reserved room by 15 minutes after the booked start time at the latest.

• Click on ‘Login’ and log in.
• In the booking calendar, click on the booking you wish to cancel; this booking will be displayed.
• Cancel.