The Translation Studies library is part of the Vienna University Library and primarily serves researchers, teachers and students of the Centre for Translation Studies (ZTW). However, our resources are also open to the general public.
The Regulations for the Use of the Libraries of the University of Vienna [PDF] apply.
The following applies to the whole library: Drinks are only permitted in sealable containers. Food and similar items may not be taken into the library. When you go into the Reading room, the Open-shelf area or Group study room 1, you are obliged to leave bags and coats in the lockers in front of the Library. Please only use transparent bags to carry your work materials.
Locker keys are available at the library information desk. If you have a library card/u:card the key will be booked to your library account. The keys for the lockers on the ground floor may be borrowed for a day. On request, the keys for the lockers in the basement may be borrowed for a semester.
The catalogue room offers ten PCs with access to u:search for research and for using e-resources. The Centre for Translation Studies offers PC workstations for study-related or academic work as well as a printer (seminar room 10).
The catalogue room also contains the old card catalogue, which comprises the author and title catalogues of resources acquired before 1998. When searching for works published before 1992, we recommend using the card catalogue since older holdings are not yet fully recorded in u:search.
You do not have to use the lockers if you only use the catalogue room.
The Reading Room offers 64 study spaces, equipped with power sockets and Wi-Fi (eduroam). Encyclopaedias, atlases and dictionaries, including the most recent editions of dictionaries relevant for exams, are shelved in the Large Reading Room.
The Library is an open-shelf library with a lending service. Users can take most of the books directly from the shelves and read and use them on-site. With an active library account, you can also borrow them at the information desk or you can also request books via u:search and collect them at the information desk.
According to our shelfmark classification, books are shelved by languages and subjects and can be found using their call number.
Here you will also find the reserve collections, the ZTW's academic theses and the periodicals shelf.
Our two Group study rooms offer space for up to 6 people and are equipped with whiteboards. Eating is not allowed here, and drinks are only permitted in sealable containers.
The group study rooms can be reserved for groups of three or more for up to 3 hours during opening hours. Reservations can be made on-site, by phone, or via email.
Group study room 1 is accessible through the Open-shelf area. Please note that the use of the lockers is mandatory here.
Group Study Room 2 can be accessed through the Catalogue room. You don't have to use the lockers when staying in this room.
There is a u:print device in the Library where you can print and make copies using your u:card for payment.
Close to the Library on the same floor, there is also a Facultas copier, which can be used with coins or Facultas copy cards .
A book scanner (A3 paper format) is available at the Library free of charge. You need a flash drive to store the scanned documents. Please see the quick guide (in German) [PDF] for an overview of the scanner functions.
When scanning documents, please note the provisions specified in the Austrian copyright act §§42ff. des Urheberrechtsgesetzes .
Outside opening hours, you can return books of the Translation Studies library using the return box next to the library entrance. The books will be returned in the library system on the next working day, specifying the date of the last working day.
