The service allows bibliographic material held by the library to be borrowed for a set period of time.
The service is available to:
At enrolment, all users affiliated with the University of Bologna must show their University badge and Italian tax code (codice fiscale).
Students of the University of Bologna, exchange students, and students from organisations and institutions with which agreements are in place may borrow a maximum of 6 books for 30 days, of which no more than one may be from the TESTOESAME and TESTI sections.
Academic staff, PhD students and technical-administrative staff of the University of Bologna may borrow a maximum of 20 books for 60 days, of which no more than one may be from the TESTOESAME section, with a loan period of 30 days.
Users already registered with a library in the Bolognese Library Network SBN, and subject specialists, may borrow a maximum of 6 books for 30 days. However, books in the TESTOESAME section are excluded from loan.
Books shelved under TESTOESAME can only be borrowed by students and lecturers.
Requests, extensions and reservations can be made online via the services of the online catalogue or by downloading the SBN UBO app from App Store or Google Play.
Requests, extensions and reservations can also be made in person at the library, by phone or email
Loan requests
An online loan request keeps the book reserved for 3 days, during which the user who requested it can collect it from the library.
Extensions
The loan may only be renewed once for 30 days, only if the book has not been reserved by another user. The extension must be requested in the 3 days prior to the loan expiry date.
Reservations
Reservations are limited to books currently on loan to other users. You can reserve a maximum of 6 books, of which no more than 1 may be from the TESTOESAME section. Once notified that a reserved book has been returned, users have 2 days to collect it before the reservation expires.
Issue and loan
Books and journals from the former libraries of the Department of Economics and of the Department of Managament are issued Monday to Friday at the following times:
If these books are requested online before the last issue slot on Friday, they can also be collected during the weekend service hours.
Returns
Books can be returned at any time during the library's opening hours. Returns must be registered at the self-service point located in front of the reception desk, and the books then placed in the box next to the device.
During the summer and holiday periods, or in the event of extraordinary closures, please check the updated opening hours on the homepage.
In this library:
From the due date, the user cannot make new loans and, from the date the item is returned, they lose borrowing rights for a number of days equal to double the delay.
In all the other University libraries:
Any user who, despite reminders, fails to return books from the TESTOESAME section within 12 days of the due date, and all other items within 28 days of the due date, will have their borrowing rights suspended in all the University libraries until the items are returned.
University borrowing regulations (in italian)
Compensation
Any user who damages or loses a borrowed document is required to replace it with another copy of the same edition or, if it is no longer available on the market, with a copy with a commercial value not lower than that of the lost document.
The user may authorise another person to collect the books they have borrowed.
The user must have a valid, curernt authorisation for the borrowing service at one of the University libraries (to verify this, they can call the number in the footer of this page).
The user must print, complete and sign the form available for download from the footer of this page.
To collect the items, the authorised person must:
- submit the original form, completed and signed, to the library;
- show their identity document or University badge;
- show the original or a copy of the authorising party's identity document or University badge (a photograph of the document is also acceptable).
