1. Tallinn University of Technology LIBRARY Overview of library services
Katri Mägi TUT Library Information Services Department
TUT Orientation Days Sept, 1st 2016

2. General Introduction
Library building has 5 floors, there are 400 study places, a computer lab, and group and individual study rooms. Study rooms can be reserved online free of charge.
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.
On 2nd and 3rd Floor there are self-service borrowing machines.
Library has no separate silent reading rooms. Therefore 4th Floor in the library is a quiet study area. If you need to study in silence, go there!
Library’s collection includes over items. Also we provide campus-wide access to approximately e-journals and e-books.
Visiting the library, you always need to register your visit with your library card. Coats and large bags should be left to the Wardrobe. Coffee cups are also not allowed.

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. User registration At the Information Desk
To obtain the library card you need to:      - fill out the registration form      - pay 1,30 € 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 the registration form. Library card costs 1,30 euros. We can accept only cash payments in library!
Estonian ID-cards and residence cards can also be used as library cards and the registration is then free of charge.
By user registration it is good to know your Student Code. Student Code contains from 6 numbers and letters which show your study programme. Look it up in Studies Information System ÕIS and remember it!

5. 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.

6. 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
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. 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.
You can extend loans as many times as you need – it is not limited.
When a book is already borrowed by somebody else, you can make a reservation for this book at any service desk. You can have up to 10 reservations at the same time.

7. Printing and copying Self-services on 2 nd, 3rd and 4th Floor
With ID-card / Residence card
You need to open a printing account via online bank or mobile phone
From any library computer or your own laptop
Also at the university’s Copycentre (in Study Building U04, room 102A) with ISIC or Tallinn Public Transport Card
For printing and copying in the library you need to open a printing account. It means you need to load money on your ID-card or Residence card. If you already have Estonian mobile number or bank account you can do it by yourself in the internet or by calling a certain service number. The instructions how to do it, you can find on the library’s webpage or from user manuals next to the print/copy devices or you can ask the librarian in helpdesk. If you don’t have your ID-card or Residence card yet, then at the university’s Copycentre it is possible to open the printing account also with ISIC card or Tallinn Public Transport Card.
For printing, you can use any computer in the Library and also you can print from your own laptop using cloud-printing service.
Printer/copy machines are located in the 2nd floor computer lab and on the 3rd and 4th floor. Only on 2nd floor there is a possibility for coloured print and copies.

8. Scanning Self-service: Instant service: free of charge
on every floor
up to A4 size documents
On-Screen Manual
Instant service:
placing orders on the 5th floor
up to A2 size documents
OCR
Scanning as self-service is free of charge. In the library there are scanners on every floor. 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 and there is a possibility for optical text recognition.
It’s also possible to borrow a scanner from the 4th floor service desk to connect it with your own laptop. You can borrow other computer accessories too – mice, headphones, ID-card readers, portable power banks, etc.

9. 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 the main search engines: Estonian online catalogue ESTER, e-resources portal and databases.
All our users have a campus-wide access of scientific databases. Students can use databases also outside the campus network thanks to the university’s remote access service. Remote access manual you can find in the middle of the webpage.
Also you can find here opening hours, building guide and basic information about the library.
On the right side there is information about user registration, how to renew due date and reserve a study room. Also you can ask questions via the online form and you will receive a reply via within 24 hours.

10. Estonian online catalogue ESTER www.ester.ee
Estonian online catalogue ESTER is a shared catalogue of 17 Estonian biggest libraries. You can search by keyword, author, title, etc. From the drop-down menu in the left you can choose, do you want to search all libraries in Tallinn or choose a particular library. To find books from our library, choose TUT Library (Akadeemia tee 1) from the drop-down menu.
Very useful are the self service opportunities of My ESTER, which is your personal area in the catalogue, where you can see your checkouts and renew duedates by yourself. Instructions and password to My ESTER will be given to you by user registration.

11. See you in Library!
If you have questions or you need help, ask our librarians!