student, assistant, PhD student or professor: come to one of our desks to validate your campus card, which will act as your library card
holder of a Swiss university library card or a card from the City of Lausanne library: complete the pre-registration form and then validate your card at one of our desks
If you do not have any kind of library card, please complete the pre-registration form. To obtain your library card, go to one of the BCUL desks with a valid identity document (Swiss identity card, Swiss passport, Swiss driving licence or residence permit valid for a minimum of 3 months).
If you have forgotten your password, ask to update it (document in french) or go to one of our desks.
Reading
Our collections contain both rare and valuable documents and current digital resources!
Alongside the thousands of works that are freely accessible at our various locations, we have a collection of cultural heritage documents that are available only in the reading room at the Unithèque site.
Rare, precious, or fragile historical documents are available to you in an environment designed to assure their preservation.
Documents available in the reading room
manuscripts and archives
maps
rare books
items from the Iconographic collection
prints prior to 1850
UNIL dissertations (Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Geosciences and Environment, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences)
To access these documents you do not have to be registered with the library, but your are requested to fill in – a registration form for the reading room at your first visit( yearly renewal).
Requesting a document prior to 1850, a rare book or a map: once you have found the document in Renouvaud, log into your user account, and click on the “Request” button.
Depending on the type of document, it can take between 1 hour and 2 working days to prepare your order. Reading restrictions apply to certain documents because of their conservation conditions. An authorization may also be required, particularly for archival material.
To use the reading room you need to book a time slot. Once your order is prepared, we will send you an e-mail to confirm your time slot.
as a student or employee at UNIL, CHUV or HEP Vaud, you have access to all the digital resources in the Renouvaud catalogue marked as [Access UNIL; CHUV; HEP Vaud; BCUL sites]. Items can be accessed locally (through your institution’s computer network) or remotely through your institution’s VPN.
Library users have access to the digital resources in the Renouvaud catalogue marked as [Access UNIL; CHUV; HEP Vaud; BCUL sites]. You can access materials at our various locations, from the public computers, the UNIL Wi-Fi networks or the HEP Vaud Wi-FI network.
some resources in the Renouvaud catalogue identified as [Free access] are accessible to anyone, from any location
You can borrow up to 30 documents at a time. There are special conditions for UNIL professors, researchers and PhD students.
Loan period
standard loan: 28 days
14 days: DVDs from the Riponne, HEP Vaud, Renens and Provence sites, DVD documentaries, box sets and series from the Unithèque site and magazines from the Riponne site
7 days: free access newspapers and magazines from the Unithèque site, and DVDs and Blu-ray discs from the Cinespace at the Unithèque site
You can borrow anything except for documents marked “not available for borrowing” in the Renouvaud search tool (reference works, old and precious books, compilations of legislation and case law, etc.)
Renewals
renew your documents in a few clicks from your account
items cannot be renewed if they have been reserved by another reader
online renewals are available for a maximum of 4 times the initial loan period. Once this period has expired, please return your items to the desk.
Returns
to the desk at all locations
to the returnboxes
by post
A fine of CHF 0.20 per working day for each document is payable from the first day of delay on any late returns. Any costs incurred as a result of damage or loss of a document, including administrative expenses, will be payable by the user in full. For any transactions involving a third party, please complete the proxy form (document in french).
The following documents must also be returned to one of our locations:
books obtained through the interlibrary loans service (PEB)
books borrowed from Lausanne medical libraries
If the document is available free access, you can find it yourself and borrow it. If the document is available from the stacks, at another site or has already been borrowed, log in to Renouvaud and click on “Request”. As soon as the document is available, you will receive an email inviting you to collect it from your chosen location.
Get a book from another library or BCUL delivered to you !
Books, articles or even book chapters from other libraries can be ordered via our interlibrary loan department. Please be advised that a fee will be charged for this service.
The document you are looking for is not in our collections? Order it and we will bring it to you from another library outside the Renouvaud network as soon as possible.
You can also request journal articles or book chapters. Due to copyright law, we are not allowed to send scans of articles directly to a user. The same law also prohibits the scanning of entire books. And we do not send photocopies to your home.
Order a document
log in to Renouvaud, in the search toolbar click on All ResourcesRenouvaud plus to order swisscovery documents:
choose a pick-up location :
> Unithèque
> HEP Vaud
> Riponne
> Internef
delivered in 3 working days, can be borrowed for 28 days, cost CHF 8.-
If the document is not in Renouvaud plus, from Renouvaud, click on ILL form and fill the form by ticking Book in Citation type.
Documents from Lausanne librairies (HES librairies, University Psychiatric Library, etc.) cannot be ordered through the Interlibrary Loan Service. Borrow them directly from owner librairies.
Order an article
From Renouvaud, click on ILL form and fill the form by ticking Article in Citation type.
Important informations
There is a charge for this service. The payement is required on location, when the document is retrieved.
The duration of the loan and the conditions of consultation (borrowing or consulting on location, etc.) depend on the owner’s library.
A notice of availability will be sent to you by mail as soon as the document has been received. It remains available at the loan desk of the Unithèque, HEP Vaud, Riponne, or Internef sites for seven days.
Requests for extensions have to be processed on your account for documents from Renouvaud plus. To extend documents outside Renouvaud plus (Swiss and foreign), please send your requests by email to the Interlibrary Loan Service.
To have a book from the BCU Lausanne collections sent to your home, once you have found the document in Renouvaud, log in, click on the “Request” button and and select “Postal delivery: home address” or “Postal delivery: work address”. The item will be sent to you by post for a fee of CHF 13 per volume
when your item is due to expire, return it by post to the BCUL Unithèque in appropriate packaging
return costs are payable by you
Payment
fees for sending items to you will be added to your account
these must be paid using the payment slip sent separately.
Is it difficult for you to travel? The “Livres à vous” service offers you free home delivery. A volunteer will bring your items to your home and return them for you.
sign up for the “Livres à vous” service
People with reduced mobility living in the Greater Lausanne area
how do sign up for the service? Contact us by phone:+41 21 316 78 57
Read digitally and lighten your bag! Choose from 12’000 ebooks of all styles: literature, detective novels, biographies, history, humanities and social sciences, etc.
Have you forgotten to bring a USB stick with you? Have you always dreamt of programming a robot? We have a number of other items available to lend.
Items
Magnifier with/without light
Use in the library
Wireless mouse
Use in the library
E-book readers
Want to read an e-book but don’t have a device? Borrow a reader!
Thymio robot
Discover the world of computer coding and programming with one of our Thymio robots.
Portable DVD-Player
Borrow a cable from the BCUL’s Riponne site to connect the player to a tb. Use in the library,
Portable CD player
Use in the library or borrow for 14 days.
Portable vinyl record player
USB port, for 33, 45 and 78 rpm records. Use in the library or borrow for 28 days.
Universal adapter
Use in the library or borrow for 14 days.
USB stick
Choice of 64 or 128 GB. Use in the library or borrow for 14 days.
Laser pointer
A cutting-edge multi-function device that doubles as a pointer and mouse.
Pocket calculator
Use in the library
Headset
Use in the library
Charger (mobile phone and/or computer)
In addition to the charging terminal available in the free-access area. Use in the library.
Extension cable
Use in the library
Multi-socket adapter
Use in the library
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