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Library as a place of learning

Library as a place of learning

The library provides staff and students at the University of Music and Theatre Munich with a reading room where they can carry out specialist research and work in a focused environment. It offers direct access to a small open-access collection and provides various technical facilities for research, photocopying, communication, writing texts and musical scores, as well as listening to and conducting music.

- Internet connection
- Sound playback
- DVD drive
- USB ports
- Sound playback
- Extended character sets (Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Hebrew)
- Access to licensed databases
- word processing program
- Endnote literature management software
- Music notation software MuseScore
A printer is connected to the PC workstations in the library reading room. Use of the printer is subject to a fee (4 cents/page) and requires the purchase of a printer coupon at the circulation desk.
You can check your printer credit balance on this website (in German): https://print.mwn.de

Please note: As of 18 December 2025, printer vouchers cannot currently be purchased at the library, as cash payments are not accepted.

There is also a copier available in the reading room, which can be operated with a multifunction card or the »gray« lecturer copy card. Lecturer copy cards can be recharged at the administration office, and the chips for the multifunction card can be recharged at the charging station on the ground floor of Arcisstraße 12.

The copier in the library is equipped with a scan function. To scan at the copier, you need a personal USB stick and your multifunction card (student ID, lecturer ID, etc.). Scanning and saving to a USB stick is free of charge.

Scanning at the public scanner is also free of charge. You can save your scans to your personal USB stick in *.tif, *.jpg, *.pdf, or *.docx (with OCR preset) formats.

Quick guide to scanning with the public scanner:
1. Insert your USB stick and place your document on the device with the text facing up.
2. Press the green bar. The document will be saved immediately as a file on your stick.
3. If you want to save multiple pages in one file, activate the »Multipage« function before scanning.

Please note: Guidelines for scanning and copying sheet music (PDF in German).
In a course reserve collection you will find books that are reserved for a specific seminar for the duration of one semester and are temporarily grouped together under the topic of the seminar offered in the reading room.
To ensure that you can always find the media for the individual courses in the library, the books are part of the reference collection for the duration of the semester and cannot be borrowed. You can view the currently available semester collections in webOPAC.

Note for lecturers:

Please provide us with your reading list containing the titles you have selected for a semester collection before the start of the semester. You can also send us your watch list from webOPAC with the corresponding call numbers.

The literature list should include your name and the topic of the seminar.

Please let us know in good time before the end of the semester if you wish to keep the course reserve collection beyond the duration of the current semester and during the semester break. Otherwise, at the beginning of the new semester, we will assume that you no longer need the collection and will remove it to make room for new collections.
In the reading room, you will find a small collection of books, sheet music, magazines, and newspapers. If you wish to borrow any items, please register them at the circulation desk.

Media marked with a red dot on the spine are not available for borrowing and may only be viewed in the reading room (reference collection). The magazines on display and the media in the semester collections are also reference materials.

The majority of the collection is not freely accessible but is stored in closed stacks. These media can be ordered for use in webOPAC or at the counter.
When ordering via webOPAC, the delivery time (sometimes 1-2 opening days) is displayed; see »Overview of locations and delivery times«, PDF in German.

Many media are now only accessible online via our catalog or the database information system (DBIS). For more information, see »Searching and finding.«