The Translation Studies, Linguistics, and Cultural Studies Library in Germersheim will be closed from December 21, 2024 up to and including January 3, 2025.

The Georg Forster Building Library and the Central Library will be closed from December 23, 2024 up to and including including January 1, 2025. From January 2 to January 3, 2025 these two libraries will be open without specialist staff. However, no loan or returns are possible during this period.

From December 23, 2024 up to and including January 3, 2025, all other locations will be closed.

We wish you happy holidays and a joyful new year!

Starting off with a test phase from November 4, 2024, we will operate the Musicology location of the Humanities Library as an Open Library. 

What does this mean? The Open Library is open for you, even if we’re not around. Allowing us to create the conditions for flexible opening hours in the future. You can find all information about this in this overview.

In cooperation with the Gutenberg Museum and other partners, the University Library Mainz has digitized two valuable Gutenberg Bibles and made them accessible online. The digitized Bibles can now be browsed through in "Gutenberg Capture", viewed in detail and searched thanks to a special text recognition software developed at JGU.

This project makes Gutenberg's cultural heritage accessible to the public and researchers worldwide.

Detailed press release
The Gutenberg Bibles in the Gutenberg Museum

Unfortunately, there are currently issues with the “JGU-Ausweise-App,” especially on iPhones. Our data center (ZDV) is working on a solution. In the meantime, please use this link or one of the QR codes on our self-service terminals to access your library card:

https://account.uni-mainz.de/id-cards 

If you have any questions, feel free to contact our library staff at the information desks.​

You can ask any library related questions directly via live chat. We're available to help Monday—Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. via the chat function (except on public holidays and Shrove Monday). To start, simply click the green chat symbol in the corner of your screen on our website. Looking forward to hearing from you!

We are still available to help you via phone, email, or in person at our service desks. For more extensive questions, feel free to make an appointment for a consultation.

From now on, you will find a selection of titles from Erich Schmidt Verlag on the topics of philology, Romance studies and German as a foreign or second language in our research portal: from A as in "Aber-Relationen" to Z as in "Zwischen verlorenem Lied und überliefertem Epos".

With the help of our new virtual guidance system, you can view the exact location of all freely accessible media, down to the specific shelf.

To do this, go to the Research Portal and call up the desired title. A link next to the location information will take you directly to the 3D model of one of our library buildings. There, you can recognize the shelf you are looking for by the highlighted color.

The system is still under development, but we are eager to make it available to you now. If you notice any errors, please send your feedback to info@ub.uni-mainz.de. Thank you!