Course reading collections consist of selected (text-)books that are recommended as reading for a lecture. These items cannot be borrowed, but all students can read them in the library and make scans of individual pages.

Course reading collection at the library

To support your lecture, TU Wien Bibliothek will on request organise a course reading collection at the circulation desk on the ground floor of the main library.

Can I have the course reading collection at my institute?

If you want to have the course reading collection for a lecture at your institute, a staff member of your institute needs to borrow any works from the library (or items from other institutes, or items loaned from other universities via inter-library loan) in their name on behalf of your institute, as organisational units cannot borrow items - only natural persons can have a library account. The borrower is also personally responsible for returning the items. 

Send us a list of the titles you want to be part of your lecture's course reading using the form below - our staff will take care of everything else.

Please note that some books may be out on loan and will only become available at the end of the loan period. Other titles may have to be acquired for your course reading collection. If a title is out of print, but available at your institute, we will request a temporary transfer of the title to the library for the duration of the term. At the end of the term, or of another period specified by you, we will disband the course reading collection and return the items to their previous locations.

If you require scans of journal articles or book chapters for your lecture in TUWEL, you can order them using our scan on demand service.