Open Innovation

The thematic request has been forwarded to our subject librarians for business economics and IT. If you have specific suggestions for media you want us to acquire, please use our online purchase suggestion form. You can also use it to suggest specific electronic media. We currently have around 250,000 e-books in our collection.

According to one comment on the flip chart, our WiFi networks is struggling during times of intense usage. Our IT department has reacted and measured connectivity. The upper floor of the library will be fitted with a new access point in the coming weeks.

One comment mentions that there are too few plug sockets near the green desks on the ground floor as well as a lack of plug sockets near the standing desks on the upper floor. This is also the case for the second row around the gallery. We state: electricity is the new gold! Despite the rather tricky task of laying cables in this area, we power-up two rows around the gallery. One of them will stay without for more flexibility with events. Also the standing desks and the green desks will stay unwired. Due to security reasons we cannot lay more cables on the escape routes. But: for more energy there are power banks and extensionleads at the circulation desk for daily loan. 

We commend your eagerness to stay healthy by eating your five-a-day. Offering free fruit however would rather counteract our “no eating in the libray” policy. We are more than happy to gift you free marker pen though, just pop by and pick one up from the circulation desk. Just please don’t use them in any library books.

We of course would love to offer you more space to study. Yet, as you may be aware of when visiting the library, is already pretty crowded in our reading room. Always make sure to use seatfinder to see how busy the library is and where alternative space is offered. We would also like to recommend you the HSG student podcast interview with Dominik Isler, the new intendant of the learning centre. Word has it, that there will be additional study spaces in the SQUARE during exam preparation term.

We would happily comply with your wish to have a special room to clear your head space, however, space is in short supply. Are you aware of the relaxation room in the main building? Or you could use our wide offering of classes and facilities of the Unisport. Maybe there will even be a dedicated space for relaxing in SQUARE from February 2022 onwards? We’ll keep our eyes opend.

Interesting input concerning a booking system for study places. As if we had guessed: a member of the library team will dedicate its bachelor thesis to this topic and evaluate a future implementation. We stay tuned!

Temperatures have led to heated tempers... too cold?... too warm?... it's complicated. Generally speaking the temperatures we measured in the library building over the last couple of weeks were at the lower end of the spectrum. Facility management was eagerly adjusting and fixing this issue. Our tipp: The ground floor is the warmest, especially towards the window front. Please refrain from fiddeling with our radiators yourself, if you feel it's too warm find a different desk. Any messing about has implications for the whole room. Thank you!