The library account at Uppsala University Library

For making requests in the library search system, you need to log in with your library card number and a password (of your own choice).

To login to "My loans" and see your loans and requests, you will need your library card number and your password.

To borrow books at the checkout machines at the libraries, you will need your library card number and your PIN code.

You always have access to all material at the library, when you are logged in to the university network.

Fellows at SCAS must log in as an Other/Public user.

To create a password please do the following:

1. Start at the library's home page www.ub.uu.seExternal link, opens in new window. External link.
2. Klick on My Loans.
3. Choose Other / Public user
4. Click on the text below the Login screen:
   The library has switched to a new search and loan system. You must create a new password the first time you log in.
5. Fill in your email address - it has to be the email address that the library has in the system. It is normally your email address at SCAS.

5. You will get an email called: Create New Password.
Click on the link in the letter, and follow the instructions.
The password of your choice must be 8 characters long.
When you have clicked on the Sent-button to send in the password, you will be directed to the library search system.
lf you have problems with the login to the library, please email the contact person at the library: christina.swedberg@ub.uu.se

The Special Library Service for SCAS Fellows

• Requested books from Uppsala University Library's collections will be registered in the loan system by library staff and sent to SCAS
  • Transports to and from SCAS twice a week
  • Interlibrary loans and document deliveries are free of charge, and will be sent to SCAS.
  • You have a contact person at Uppsala University Library for all library questions.
  
  Registration Information
  You must register for the special service, by sending an email to the contact person at the university library.
  Library account/card
  You need to make your own password to the library account, to be able to log in and request books.
  Short about how to borrow books using the Special Service:
  Library homepage: https://www.uu.se/en/library External link.
• Request the books you want to borrow in the Library Search Tool.
  You need login to the library system to make the requests.
  
  • As pick-up location, please always choose: Carolina Rediviva.
  
  • Library staff will collect the material from the pickup-shelves in the library, register them in the library loan system and send them to SCAS.
  
  • It is possible to request books available at other branch libraries belonging to Uppsala University Library, and choose "Carolina Rediviva" as the pick-up location.
  
  • NB! The library system will send you automatically generated messages when the requested book is ready for pick-up (you can just ignore these messages).
  
  • Deliveries of requested books to SCAS and pick-up of returned books is on Tuesdays and Fridays.
  
  • Journals
  Printed journals are normally not possible to borrow. You need to go to the subject library in order to read and/or make copies at site.
  The Carolina Library will make exceptions for older printed journal volumes and lend them to SCAS for shorter periods.

Interlibrary loans and document deliveries:

We use a service called Libris User-Initiated Interlibrary loans.
You create your patron account in LIBRIS (the national catalogue), and choose the Karin Boye Library / Karin Boye-biblioteket as your home library.
When you have made the account, you can make your ILL requests directly in LIBRIS.
If you cannot find the title, you are looking for in Libris, please use the "Empty Request Form". You will find it in your Libris account in the upper right corner when you are logged in.

You will find more information about how to make your user account in Libris and how to make interlibrary loans on the library's home page - click on "Borrow and request" in the left margin and scroll down to the information about "Request interlibrary loans and articles":
https://www.uu.se/en/library/borrow-and-request/request-interlibrary-loans-and-articles External link.

Interlibrary loan staff will take care of your ILL requests; order them, register them in the library system and send them to SCAS when they arrive.

The ILL service is free of charge for fellows at SCAS.

NB! Please note that interlibrary loans and document deliveries will always be sent to the Collegium.

Every time you make an ILL request, the Libris system will send you several automatically generated messages. You will also receive a message when the book is ready for pick-up (please just ignore them). The book will arrive to SCAS in the transport after some days.

Useful information:

Loan period and renewals

The loan period is normally 30 days; with automatic renewals, as long as no new patron requests the book or the maximum loan period is reached (3 years for researchers).
You will get a recall message by e-mail from the library when you need to return a book.

Contact person at Uppsala University Library:

Mrs. Christina Swedberg will answer all questions concerning the library service: christina.swedberg@ub.uu.se