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Students from Munich and from the Munich metropolitan area (S-Bahn area)
Kindly contact the  Munich City Library Am Gasteig first. Students can usually obtain the literature required for presentations or term papers and acquire the necessary research and information evaluation techniques there. There are special information presentations for this purpose:  Courses and guided tours of the Munich City Library Am Gasteig
Students from outside the Munich metropolitan area
Kindly contact your nearest local library and then the nearest academic library. Depending on your place of residence and the required subject, this library may be a city library or municipal library, a state regional library, college library or university library.
Students can find all literature required for presentations or term papers and acquire searching and information evaluation techniques also in these libraries.
Any books or articles not available in the local libraries can be ordered for delivery to this library by using the interlibrary loan system. Within the framework of such an interlibrary loan also the collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek are accessible.
The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek for Students
Students can also use the collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, if required. For borrowing items a reader pass is required. This reader pass has to be requested in person at the Registration Office (Zulassung).
The following regulation is applicable:
  • Students who are 18 years or older receive a regular user pass. Kindly submit a valid identification card or, alternatively, passport plus confirmation of place of residence by your municipality ("Meldebestätigung"). No student identification card is required.
  • Students from 16 - 18 years need to submit the following documents in addition:
    • valid student identification card or other valid confirmation by your school
    • letter of commitment signed by your parents. A corresponding form can be downloaded here:  PDF file. Please fill in this form and bring it with you for registration.