Borrowing
Discover and borrow: quick and easy access to our media.
LMUcard
The LMUcard for students and staff also serves as a library card for the University Library and the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.
The number of your library card is located on the back of the LMUcard.
Before you can use the LMUcard as a library card, it must be activate once.
LMU students can apply for the LMUcard at the LMU IT Servicedesk.
LMU staff can apply for the LMUcard in their user account on the LMU service portal.
To activate the library function of your LMUcard, we need proof of your German registered address.
Submit one of the following documents via the upload form:
- Photo of your (German) identity card (front and back)
- Photo of your residence permit (front and back)
- Photo of your passport and German certificate of residency
As soon as we have activated your LMUcard for borrowing, we will inform you by e-mail.
Alternatively, you can also prove your residence in Germany directly at the UB.info in the LMU main building.
LMU staff activate the library function themselves via their user account on the LMU service portal. Only after activation will the necessary information be transferred to the libraries and the library account set up.
The password is preset to your date of birth (DDMMYY). For security reasons, you will be asked to change the preset password in your library account when you log in to the online catalog (OPAC) for the first time.
Library card
You do not have an LMUcard and belong to one of the following groups of people? In this case, we will issue you with a library card: either in person at the information desk (UB.info) or online via our upload form.
The following documents are required to issue a card:
- Employment contract, certificate of appointment or employee ID card with a valid annual stamp
- Identity card or passport with German certificate of residency
- Declaration of consent (PDF, 89 KB)
- Employment contract
- Identity card, residence permit, or passport with German certificate of residency
- Declaration of consent (PDF, 89 KB)
- Identity card, residence permit, or passport with German certificate of residency
- Confirmation by the Examination Office (Prüfungsamt) or written confirmation from your academic tutor
The certificate must contain the following:
- Letterhead and stamp of the department
- Your academic tutor's signature
- The expected completion date of your promotion - Declaration of consent (PDF, 89 KB)
- Temporary card for guest auditors, participants with a pass from the „Deutsch-Kurs” or similar documentation of a temporary stay with the LMU
- Identity card, residence permit, or passport with German certificate of residency
- Declaration of consent (PDF, 89 KB)
- Student ID
- Identity card, residence permit, or passport with German certificate of residency
- Declaration of consent (PDF, 89 KB)
For licensing reasons, access to the LMU University Library's e-media is not possible.
- Employment contract or employee ID card stating the duration of employment
- Identity card, residence permit, or passport with German certificate of residency
- Declaration of consent (PDF, 89 KB)
For licensing reasons, access to the LMU University Library's e-media is not possible.
- Employment contract or official invitation letter from the LMU
- Identity card, residence permit, or passport with German certificate of residency
- Declaration of consent (PDF, 89 KB)
- Additionally for foreign guests of LMU without German residence: application form (PDF, 149 KB)
Students aged 18 and over
- Student ID card or school confirmation
- Identity card, residence permit, or passport with German certificate of residency
- Declaration of consent (PDF, 89 KB)
Minors aged 16 and over
- Student ID card or school confirmation
- Identity card, residence permit, or passport with German certificate of residency
- Completed application for admission of minor students (PDF, 179 KB); (this form can only be used to apply for a card at the University Library, not at the Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek)
- Identity card of a parent or guardian
The University Library only issues library cards for school groups upon request!
After consultation by e-mail to information@ub.uni-muenchen.de, please upload all necessary documents via our upload form. We will provide you with information about when the library card can be picked up at the UB.info.
It is not possible to issue cards for school groups on short notice on site.
For licensing reasons, access to the LMU University Library's e-media is not possible.
You can apply for your library card at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB (Bavarian State Library).
With your library card, you can only borrow media from the central stack collection at the University Library.
For licensing reasons, access to the LMU University Library's e-media is not possible.
Loans from the central stack collections
Pick up
- You can order these media in OPAC with your LMUcard or library card and then pick them up in the circulation area in the LMU main building, building section F (F015).
- The media are sorted by pickup number in the pickup area. The pickup number is the two-digit number printed in bold on the right-hand side of your LMUcard or library card.
- You can then borrow the media using your LMUcard or library card at the self-service checkout terminal.
Can't pick up the ordered media yourself? In this case, pickup by a third party is only possible with the LMUcard or library card of the person who placed the order.
Returning
- Return borrowed media using the return machine in the lending and exhibition hall.
- After returning the items, check your receipt to ensure that all media have been correctly checked out.
- Keep the confirmation, as complaints can only be made with the return receipt.
Borrowing from subject libraries
Pick up
- Most of the literature in the subject libraries is freely accessible in the open access collection and cannot be ordered via OPAC.
- You will need your LMUcard or library card to borrow items.
- Not all media in the subject libraries can be borrowed. Please note the corresponding information in the OPAC.
Returning
- Please return borrowed media to the library where you borrowed them.
- Returns can be made at the counter or in the return box in the respective subject library.
- Check the returns from the return box in your library account.
Borrowing from the Lernzentrum Leo 13
You will find legal textbooks in the Lernzentrum Leo 13.
Pick up
- The textbooks are freely accessible on the shelves on the ground floor.
- To borrow them, you will need your LMUcard or library card.
Returning
- Please return borrowed books to the Lernzentrum Leo 13.
- Returns can be made at the counter or in the return box.
- Please also check the entries in your library account.
Loan conditions
- Members of LMU, Technical University of Munich, and Munich School of Politics and Public Policy: 100 items
- Private individuals: 100 items (no items from the subject libraries)
Loan lists
- The loan period for media is 4 weeks.
- It can be renewed four times for 2 weeks at a time, provided that no one else has made a reservation for it.
- Renewals are possible at the earliest 5 days before the loan period expires.
The loan period begins as soon as you pick up the media. Check the deadline in your library account and renew the loan if necessary.
Reminder periods
- 1st overdue notice: two opening days grace period after the loan period has expired
- 2nd overdue notice: sent 10 opening days after the end of the loan period
- 3rd overdue notice: sent 25 opening days after the loan period ends
The first two overdue notices are sent by e-mail, the third overdue notice by post.
Opening days are Monday through Friday (excluding public holidays).
Overdue fees
- 1st overdue notice: €7.50
- 2nd overdue notice: €10.00
- 3rd overdue notice: €20.00 + €3.50 postage for registered mail
The costs of the overdue fees, which are standardized throughout Bavaria, add up.
- Reminder of outstanding fees: €5.00
An overview of overdue fees and other chargeable services can be found in the University Library's list of fees (PDF, 90 KB).
Payment by ePayment or EC terminal
- ePayment:
by credit card (MasterCard, VISA) or PayPal in your library account under Fees
Data protection information for the processing of payment data with the ePay online payment system
When paying, please wait until you are redirected back to your library account, otherwise the payment will not have been successful.
- EC terminal:
via EC card (Girocard) in the lending area in the LMU main building, building section F (F015)
- Payment partner/recipient:
The payment partner/recipient is not the University Library/LMU, but the State Office for Finance (LA für Finanzen, LfF).
Fees can only be paid in full; partial payments are not possible.
Do you have any questions?
Please contact us via e-mail: information@ub.uni-muenchen.de