Reception and News Area

The Reception welcomes the visitors and guides them ahead. The New Area serves the daily news. 

Reception

Modern technology at the Main Library offers new services and makes it easier to use the library independently. You can borrow and return material in every department using automatic lending machines. The staff are on hand to help if necessary. All the departments feature this automatic borrowing system. To use it you need a library card and a PIN. You can get the free library card simply by proving your identity.

Borrowed items are returned to the automatic machines located by the main entrances. Here they are sorted and sent to the relevant departments. The library’s reception desk is the place to go if anything is unclear or there are charges to pay. Here too you can pick up books you have reserved.  

News Area

The library features several areas for events, exhibitions and meetings as well as plenty of places to read. In the News Area you can read printed or electronic versions of newspapers from different countries. The armchair in the reading salon is somewhere you can retire to in the company of a good novel or you can while away the time reading verse in the poetry room.

Customers can use the internet workstations that are to be found here and there around the building and some can be booked in advance. The wireless network, SparkNet – available in all areas - can be used with the library computers or with your own laptop.