Central Library

• In addition to the immediately accessible works in the reading-room, the Central Library maintains a considerable storage collection in its stack-rooms. You can consult these books and periodicals by handing in a request slip at the reading-room desk. This concerns the category of documents that, in the LIBIS-catalogue, have a call number preceded by the acronyms BIBC or BEXT. When using the IPAC-version of LIBIS (via the Internet) you can make the request or reservation electronically. 
  For publications before 1971 you should also consult the card-catalogue!
• Registered readers may request documents stored in the stack-rooms.
• Please take into account waiting times of about 30 minutes (24 hours for BEXT documents), as well as the rule stating that stack-room requests are only carried out between 08.45 - 11.45 / 13.00 - 17.15.
• Requested documents are kept for you at the loan desk for 4 working days. The same term applies to documents which you leave for storage at the loan desk. You may request an extension of this term.
• Readers who have requested a document for consultation and want to borrow it, need to submit it first at the registration desk.
• If a document is not available in the K.U.Leuven collection, it may be requested through the inter-library lending service (ILL).
• K.U.Leuven-dissertations can be consulted on certain conditions, but may not leave the library.