

ULB Central Library
Krummer Timpen 3, 48143 Münster
Directions | Subject experts
Library
Mon – Fri: 8 a.m. – 10 p.m.
Sat – Sun: 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. *
Deviating times:
- Open stacks (basement levels) |
Infos - Mon – Fri: 8 a.m. – 9.30 p.m.
Sat – Sun: 10 a.m. – 7.30 p.m. *
- Mon – Fri: 8 a.m. – 9.30 p.m.
- Registration / library card matters |
Infos - Mon – Fri: 11 a.m. – 12 noon and 3 p.m. – 4 p.m.
and by arrangement
- Mon – Fri: 11 a.m. – 12 noon and 3 p.m. – 4 p.m.
- Information |
Infos - Mon – Fri: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. at the information desk, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. by phone
- Manuscript reading room |
Infos - Mon: 12 noon – 5 p.m.
Tue – Fri: 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
- Mon: 12 noon – 5 p.m.
- DigiLab |
Infos - Mon – Fri: 9 a.m. – 7 p.m.
- Thesis office |
Infos - Mon – Fri: 9 a.m. – 12 noon
or by appointment
- Mon – Fri: 9 a.m. – 12 noon
- *To meet the increased demand for learning and working places during the exam periods, the Central Library is open from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. on the weekend as well around the respective end of lectures. The open stacks in the basement levels are open from 8 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. on weekends during these periods.
In 2023, these extended opening hours apply from 9 Jan to 12 Feb.
Newspaper archive
Bispinghof 24/25, 48143 Münster
Opening hours
Tue + Wed 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. (by appointment only)
Closing days of the ULB 2023
- 1 & 2 January (Sun & Mon), New Year
- 20 February (Mon), Carnival Monday
- 7 – 10 April (Fri – Mon), Easter
- 1 May (Mon), May Day
- 18 May (Thu), Ascension Day
- 28 & 29 May (Sun & Mon), Pentecost
- 8 June (Thu), Corpus Christi
- 3 October (Tue), anniversary of German unification
- 1 November (Wed), All Saints' Day
- 24 – 26 December (Sun – Tue), Christmas
- 31 December (Sun), New Year's Eve