Services for UT Academic Staff

Semester-long loan
The University of Tartu faculty members can borrow materials in their speciality for up to six months. The loan term can be renewed if the book has no queue. E-mail your book request to the subject librarian of your field. Contact information can be found HERE. The requested materials can be sent to your office via the university mail service. 

Grant holder loan
UT grant holders can borrow the materials purchased for the library by using the grant finances up to the completion of the grant (up to four years). Materials are checked out for the grant holder and sent to their office. Others cannot reserve books on grant-holder loans. The library does not give information about grant holders to other persons.

Course reserves
Course reserve (AP) is a set of literature and materials put together by the lecturer and necessary for the students to pass the course.

Course reserve may contain

  • materials from the UT Library and elsewhere
  • copies of published and unpublished materials (in accordance with the Copyright Act).

Course reserves are accessible in subject area reading rooms for the period of time (semester, academic year, can be renewed) specified by the lecturer.

The lecturer forwards the list of necessary materials to the subject librarian of their faculty, preferably 30 days before the beginning of the course (so that the materials that are on loan can be returned). The list has to include accurate bibliographic data (author, title, year of publication, volume), the preferable period of its use, the course title, the course code, and the lecturer's name.
The lecturer photocopies the materials from outside the library collections (the titles of the books and journal articles need to be correctly cited) and sends them to the library via university mail service or personally brings them to the library. Reference works should be avoided in course reserves.

NB! The Library is not responsible for the materials from outside the library collections. Therefore, it is preferable to include only copies in the course reserves. 

Depositing books to subject libraries
The books necessary for study or research work can be deposited from the main library of UT to the structural units that have joined the online catalogue ESTER. 
Depositing periods are the following:

  • books - 2 years with the opportunity to extend the deadline for one more year.

The faculty that has financed the book purchase has the priority in depositing. Please forward the request for depositing to the subject librarian. The books which have been marked as 'for us on the spot' (materials published before the year 1945, archive copies of the printed materials published in Estonia, geographical maps, manuscripts, photos, pieces of art) and copies of the Estonica collection cannot be deposited. The books of general interest (art, photo, film, theatre etc) can be borrowed by the UT lecturers in person for six months.

Subject libraries must provide all UT members with access to the deposited books.

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