Special Reading Room
Opening hours
Open Tue – Fri, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.The special reading room is closed on public holidays and during the last week of the year. The special reading room closes at 4 p.m. on the eve of Good Friday, Ascension Day and 1 August.
Search and order
- Please use swisscovery for your library transactions.
- swisscovery may at times display titles only, not specific copies. Please specify the copy of the work you order by indicating its shelfmark in the additional field.
- When ordering books to be read on the premises, select «BMü, Lesesaal» for our Special Reading Room.
- Your orders will be at your disposal for a month's time. Please ignore the automatic message saying that the order has to be claimed within seven days. For research questions feel free to contact us by mail (zhb.ub@unibe.ch).
- An ID, passport, or drivers license is reqired if you use the special reading room for the first time or haven't used it for two years.
- Customers form abroad may register as well, but the number of orders ist limited to 5 documents. Should your order exceed 5 documents to be consulted in the Special Reading Room write to zhb.ub@unibe.ch well ahead of time.
- In case of any questions concerning rare books please contact the reading room staff or write to zhb.ub@unibe.ch .