1. Tallinn University of Technology LIBRARY Overview of library services
Katri Mägi TTÜ Library Information Services Division
TTÜ Orientation Days Jan, 26th 2016

2. General Introduction
TTÜ Library was established in Library’s primary mission is to support learning, teaching and research activities of the university. Since 1992 TTÜ library serves as the public central technical library of Estonia.
The new library building was completed in year It has 5 floors, there are 400 study places, a computer lab with 21 computers and computer terminals on every floor. Library has also 6 group study and 26 individual study rooms.
Library’s collection includes over items (the oldest of them dating back to 1760) and it provides campus-wide access to approximately e-journals and e-books.

3. Last Friday of a month is a “clean-up” day!
Opening hours
Mo - Fri –20.00
Sat –16.00
Last Friday of a month is a “clean-up” day!

4. 1st Floor Main entrance Wardrobe Lockers Café Self Check-In Museum
Press House
Bindery
On the 1st floor beside the main entrance there is a self-service book return machine. Thanks to it you have the possibility to return books even when library is closed – every day

5. 2nd Floor Library entrance & Information Desk
Service Centre & Help Desk
Self Check-out
Computer Lab
Books and Journals on Economics and Social Sciences
Library starts from the second floor. Outerwear and large bags should be left to the Wardrobe. Coffee cups are also not allowed!
At Service Centre you can use all library services: borrow and return books, renew due dates, make book reservations, pay overdue fines.
In Help Desk you get answers to your questions and consultations on information retrieval.
On 2nd Floor there is a self-service borrowing machine and a computer lab with 21 computers.

6. 3rd Floor Books and Journals on Natural and Exact Sciences
Textbooks collection
Service Desk
Self Check-out
Individual and Group Study Rooms

7. 4th Floor Books and Journals on Engineering, Technology and IT
Service Desk
Individual and Group Study Rooms
Quiet Study Area
4th Floor in the library is a quiet study area.
It means:
No conversation
No phone use
Phones must be set to silent mode

8. 5th Floor Books and Journals on Humanities Service Desk
Group Study Rooms
Map Collection

9. User registration At the Information Desk
To obtain the library card you need to:      - fill out the registration form      - pay 2 € in cash
Registration with Estonian ID-card or Residence card is free of charge.
NB! Know your Student Code
Library cards are issued at the library’s Information Desk. You need to fill out the registration form. Library card costs 2 euros. We can accept only cash payments in library!
You cannot pass on your library card to other persons and should inform library staff if you have lost your library card.
The Estonian ID-cards and residence cards can also be used as library cards and the registration is then free of charge.
By user registration your Student Code will be asked. Student Code contains from 6 numbers and letters which show your study programme. Please look it up in Studies Information System ÕIS and remember it!

10. Borrowing At any service desk Self Check-out on 2nd and 3rd floor
Open stack – pick a book
Storage – fill out a call slip
Up to 25 items at a time!
For borrowing you can pick books from open stack and borrow them at any service desk with the help of librarian or you can use Self Check-out.
To order books or journals from the storage you need to fill out the call slip and bring it to the service centre on the 2nd floor. Requests are fulfilled in 5-15 minutes.
Students can borrow up to 25 items at a time.
You can return books to any service desk or you can use the Self check-in on the 1st floor.

11. Loan Periods Generally 30 days Books with yellow spot – 14 days
Books with blue spot – 7 days
Books with red spot and all journals – for in-library use only
Textbooks on 3rd floor – 90 days
Textbooks with red stripe on spine – 30 days
General loan period in our library is 30 days. Books with shorter loan period are marked with different colours: books with a yellow spot on the cover are for two weeks, books with a blue spot are for one week and books with a red spot are for in-library use only.
Textbooks can be borrowed for 90 days. Some very required and popular textbooks are for 30 days. To borrow textbooks you should know your student code.
Journals are for in-library use only. In the open access area there are held journals of two last years, older journals are kept in storage – ask them from service centre on 2nd Floor.

12. Here you can see how books with limited loan period are marked with stickers in different colours.

13. Renewals by yourself at service desks by e-mail teenindus@lib.ttu.ee
by phone
You can extend loans as many times as you need, it is not limited.
You can’t renew if:
the book has reservations
you have overdue fines
your library card is expired

14. Reservations at service desks by e-mail teenindus@lib.ttu.ee
by phone
by filling a web form
up to 10 reservations at the same time
you will be noticed by or phone
pick up from the service centre on 2nd floor
When a book is already borrowed by somebody else, you can make a reservation for this book at any service desk. You can’t have more than 10 reservations at the same time.
When the book arrives to the library you will be noticed by or by phone. You can pick up reserved books from service center on 2nd floor.

15. Printing and copying (1)
Open your printing account at:
You need:
Google or Facebook account for login
possibility to pay online with PayPal or a credit card
Tallinn Public Transport Card to identify yourself at the printer
Printing and copying in the library are self-services offered by Estonian output service company Overall. To use output services you need to open a printing account. If you do not have your ID-card yet, you can load money on your Tallinn Public Transport Card.
The instructions you can find on the library’s webpage – in section For Students choose Printing, copying.
Also you can check user manuals next to the print/copy devices or ask the librarian in Helpdesk.
When you will receive your ID-card, you can link it to your account and use both cards for printing.

16. Printing and copying (2)
From any library computer
From your own laptop or smartphone
Print/copy machines are on 2 nd, 3rd and 4th Floor
Also at the university’s Copycentre in Study Building U04, room 102A
For printing, you can use any computer in the library or you can print from your own laptop. After you have set your address on the account settings page, you can upload documents also from your smartphone by sending these to Currently only PDF-files are supported.
Print/copy machines are located in the 2nd floor computer lab and on the 3rd and 4th floor. Only in the computer lab there is a possibility for coloured print and copies. Just find a suitable device and identify yourself with your card at the machine.
If you prefer to pay in cash, you can open your printing account at the university’s Copy Centre.

17. Scanning Self-service: free of charge on every floor
up to A4 size documents
Instant service:
placing orders on the 5th floor
up to A2 size documents
black-and-white only
OCR
Scanning as self-service is free of charge. In the library there are scanners on every floor. The document size can be up to A4. Files can be saved onto a memory stick, CD or DVD and sent by . If you need help on scanning use On-Screen Manual or ask a librarian in Help Desk.
To use scanning as an instant service please contact the librarian on the 5th floor. By instant service the document size can be up to A2. The result is black-and-white only, but there is a possibility for optical text recognition. Scanned documents can be saved onto a memory stick, CD or DVD and sent by .
It is also possible to borrow a scanner from the 4th floor service desk to connect it with your own laptop.

18. Study Rooms 6 Group Study Rooms on 3rd, 4th and 5th Floor:
all reservable online free of charge
26 Individual Study Rooms:
8 rooms on 3rd Floor – reservable online free of charge
14 rooms on 4th Floor – for walk-in use
4 rooms on 4th Floor – pay & get the key
Library has 6 Group Study and 26 Individual Study Rooms. A Group Study Room is meant for 3 to 8 people.
Group Study Rooms are located on the 3rd, 4th and 5th Floor and Individual Study Rooms on the 3rd and 4th Floor.
On library’s webpage it is possible to book online all Group Study Rooms and Individual Study Rooms on the 3rd Floor. If you want to keep a study room for you and leave your belongings there, then it is also possible to book a room for a charge and get the key.
Book a study room here:

19. Computers Log in with: password you can find on the computer keyboard
ID-card (PIN 1 is required)
Uni-ID
In the library there are 70 public computers. On the 2nd floor there is a Computer Lab with 21 PC-s, also there are 12 computers (PC-s) in front of the service desk.
Computers on 3rd, 4th and 5th floor and in Group Study Rooms can be used for information retrieval, using USB devices and CD-s is not possible.
Library computers contain Microsoft Office 2010 and Open Office  

20. Uni-ID – your TTÜ username and password
Get it in:
IT HelpDesk, SOC-129, phone ,
To acquire TTÜ Uni-ID username and password, log in to with your Estonian ID-card/ Residence card (PIN 1 is required). NB! Account is only accessible for students with active contracts.
Students can also reset their password via studies information system (ÕIS), when logged in with Estonian ID-card / Residence card. Password creation is in the menu "other".
A user guide how to create the Uni-ID you can find here:
If you don't own an Estonian ID-card or the creation of password fails, then you can acquire the password from IT HelpDesk.

21. Databases Campus-wide access
Also by remote access at
Log in with your Uni-ID
Check the remote access manual on library’s webpage
All our users have a campus-wide access of scientific databases. TTÜ students can use databases also outside the campus network thanks to the university’s remote access service. To log in you should create your Uni-ID (look previous slide).
The list of library databases you can find on the library's webpage.

22. Library webpage: www.ttu.ee/library
On the top menu you can find important sections like: Resources, Services, For Students etc.
On the left menu you can find main search engines – Estonian online catalogue ESTER and e-resources portal PRIMO.
In the middle you can find opening hours, building guide and information about off-campus access of the databases.
On the right menu you can find information about user registration, how to renew due dates and reserve a study room. Also you can ask questions via the online form and you will receive a reply via within 24 hours.

23. Estonian online catalogue ESTER www.ester.ee
Estonian online catalogue ESTER is a shared catalogue of 16 Estonian biggest libraries. You can search for keyword, author, title, subject, ISBN-number, also for book’s call number or Universal Decimal Classification number.
From the drop-down menu in the left you can choose, do you want to search the entire collection or choose a particular library. You can make sure which library has a book you need and is it available or borrowed at the moment. When you want to borrow books from our library, choose Tallinn University of Technology Library (Akadeemia tee 1) from drop-down menu.
Very useful are the self service opportunities of My ESTER.

24. My ESTER In My ESTER you can: see your checkouts renew their due dates
view your overdue fines
see your book reservations
etc.
My ESTER is your personal area in the catalogue, where you can use several library services by yourself. To book a study room you also need to know your My ESTER password.

25. How to log in to My ESTER Choose your library Enter your username:
your personal code or
your library card barcode number
Enter your password given to you by user registration
To log in to My ESTER, choose your Library, enter your username – your Estonian personal code or your library card barcode number.
Password will be given to you by user registration.
If you have forgotten or lost your password click Reset password. After entering your username a temporary link will be sent to your for setting a new password.
NB! You do not need to log in to search the catalogue!

26. How to find a book from Open Stack
When you have found a book you need from online catalogue ESTER, then observe the location: on which Floor this book lies.
Write down or remember the book’s call number.
Check also the status of the book – is it available, only for in-library use or already checked out.
By clicking on the little blue icon next to the status information, the floor plan and shelf number will be displayed to help you to find the
book in the open shelves area.
Click here

27. Shelves are numbered for better orientation
Shelves are numbered for better orientation. On the Floor plan the shelf you need to find is in red colour. Remember also the shelf number!

28. Subject names and numbers
Shelf number
Find the right shelf!
Books are organized by Universal Decimal Classification – it means by subjects and to every subject accords a certain number combination. The same system is used in most libraries over the
world. You can see big labels on shelves with subject names and numbers.
Within one subject books are sorted by languages. There are 3 language groups – first there are books in Estonian, then in foreign languages in Latin alphabet and then in Cyrillic alphabet.
Within one language group books are in alphabetical order.
Subject names and numbers

29. Call number
Every book has a sticker with call number on the cover.

30. E-resources portal PRIMO
To find e-books or scientific articles, go to e-resources portal PRIMO. The portal enables to make a combined search among numerous databases provided by the library. With a simple search you will usually find too many results and you need to refine your search. You can do it by resource type and topic in the menu on the left side or use advanced search. To find only scientific articles, limit your search to peer-reviewed journals. When you have found an interesting book or article, just click on the title and you will see in which database is it available.

31. See you in Library!
If you have questions or you need help, ask our friendly librarians! I hope to see you soon in our library!