Legal bases
The following legal and administrative provisions apply to the use and services of the University and State Library Darmstadt:
Some documents are only available in german so far.
- Conditions of Use of the University and State Library Darmstadt (opens in new tab)
- Separate rules for the use of the holdings in the Historical Collections (opens in new tab)
- Separate rules for the use of computer workstations (opens in new tab)
- Separate rules for the use of lockers and individual work rooms (opens in new tab)
- Separate rules for the use of the reading areas (opens in new tab)
- Separate rules for the use of cloakroom lockers (opens in new tab)
- Separate rules for the use of group work rooms (opens in new tab)
- General Charges and Costs
- Information on observing the Copyright Act (opens in new tab)
- Hesse Library Act
- Hesse Higher Education Act
- Hesse Law and Ordinance Gazette (opens in new tab)
- Hesse administrative cost schedule for the area of responsibility of the Ministry of Science and the Arts (VwKostO-MWK) of 19 December 2013, at: 04 March 2023
The following laws provide the legal basis for the collection mandate of ULB as the State Library for southern Hesse and the Giessen region:
- Deposit copy right (Article 4a of the Hesse Library Act)
- Ordinance on the Compulsory Submission of Media Works
The submission of dissertations is governed by the following:
Other Principles from the Library System
- Statues (opens in new tab) for the library system of TU Darmstadt of 24.2.2003
- Agreement (opens in new tab) on the Library of Social and Historical Sciences of 12.9.2000
- Hesse Higher Education Act of 14.12.2009
- Library development plan (opens in new tab) of 1999