Borrowing & Ordering

The TUM University Library provides access to over two million books and journals. We offer lending, scanning, and delivery services for our own library items as well as for materials not included in our collection. To use these services, you need a library account.

Overview

Obtain a library account

Ordering literature not available at TUM

Borrowing on site

Scan service for articles and book chapters

Ordering from other branch libraries

Obtain a library account

To order and borrow literature, you need a library account as well as a StudentCard, PersonalCard, GuestCard, or a library card from TUM. Active TUM members automatically receive a library account, while TUM alumni and external users can apply for a library card free of charge.

Borrowing on site

In our branch libraries and textbook collections, you will find a wide range of literature freely accessible in open stacks. In addition to non-circulating reference materials, you will also find media that you can borrow on site.

Ordering from other branch libraries

You can order books and other library items – no matter from which branch library or from our book stacks – via OPAC to the branch library of your choice, check them out there at the circulation desk and return them at any of our branch libraries.

Ordering literature not available at TUM

Literature not in stock at the TUM or other local library, we can obtain for you via the interlibrary loan service. If the item is urgently required, you can use the fee-based document delivery service Subito or the TIB Document Delivery.

Scan service for articles and book chapters

TUM members can order scans of journal articles and book pages free of charge via our internal document delivery service dokumenTUM.