

ULB opened to a limited extent!
In response to the Coronavirus pandemic the ULB can only be used to a limited extent.
FAQs on measures regarding the Coronavirus pandemic – borrowing, returns, reading room, etc.
Services of the ULB during the Coronavirus pandemic [de]
ULB Central Library
Krummer Timpen 3, 48143 Münster
Directions [de] | Subject experts
- Library (reading rooms, group workspace),
Returns- Mon – Fri: 8 a.m. – 10 p.m.
Sat – Sun: 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. *
- Mon – Fri: 8 a.m. – 10 p.m.
- Open stacks (access and lending)
- 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.
- Textbook collection,
Self-collection area- Mon – Fri: 9 a.m. – 10 p.m.
Sat – Sun: 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. *
- Mon – Fri: 9 a.m. – 10 p.m.
- Manuscript reading room
- Mon: 12 noon – 5 p.m.
Tue – Fri: 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
- Mon: 12 noon – 5 p.m.
- Registration / library card matters
- Mon – Fri: 11 a.m. – 12 noon and 3 p.m. – 4 p.m.
and by arrangement (leihstelle.ulb@uni-muenster.de)
- Mon – Fri: 11 a.m. – 12 noon and 3 p.m. – 4 p.m.
- Information
- Mon – Fri: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. at the information desk, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. by phone under +49 (0)251 83-24040
- DigiLab
- Mon – Fri: 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
- *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 (access and lending) are open from 8 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. on weekends, the textbook collection and the self-collection area from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
In 2022, these extended opening hours apply from 10 Jan to 18 Feb and from 20 June to 24 Jul.
Newspaper archive
Bispinghof 24/25, 48143 Münster
Opening hours
Tue + Wed 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Further appointments possible on request
Regular closing days of the ULB 2022
- 1 January (Sat), New Year
- 15 – 18 April (Fri – Mon), Easter
- 1 May (Sun), May Day
- 26 May (Thu), Ascension Day
- 5 & 6 June (Sun & Mon), Pentecost
- 16 June (Thu), Corpus Christi
- 3 October (Mon), anniversary of German unification
- 1 November (Tue), All Saints' Day
- 24 – 26 December (Sat – Mon), Christmas
- 31 December (Sat), New Year's Eve
Different opening hours apply around Christmas and the turn of the year.