As part of its strategic planning, the University Library has set out to further digitise its services and processes, thereby making them even more user-friendly. The next steps in this process were the introduction of digital building plans and the option for users to book study rooms and specific workstations in real time.
Over the past few months, the floor plans have been digitised in collaboration with a service provider and converted into 2D and 3D formats. The printed media collections and the various service areas were entered into the system, after which the focus shifted to the workspaces and the reservation and booking conditions. The system has now been live since 27 April – students and staff members of the university can book group study rooms, carrels, meeting boxes or workspaces in the Makerspace in real time. This eliminates the previous manual room booking process handled by library staff at the library service desk; reservations and bookings are now possible around the clock. Users can view and cancel their own bookings. Booking confirmations and other information are sent automatically by email.
The building plans and the room booking system are available in German and English. The building plans and the displayed route guidance can be viewed in an accessible format.
Access to the room booking system is restricted to TU members, as login via Shibboleth is required. External users can still book rooms, but this must continue to be done via the University Library Service Desk.
You can find the digital building plans here: https://vscout.tu-ilmenau.de/
The room booking system can be accessed via this link or, alternatively, by selecting a specific bookable room on the building plan: https://vscout.tu-ilmenau.de/rbs/entry
The regulations of the Association for Electrical Engineering (VDE standards) are now available in electronic form across the campus.
The VDE Standards Library offers full-text access to standards in Groups 0 to 8. Valid standards, those currently in preparation, and those withdrawn since December 2010 are available.
Searches are carried out using comprehensive bibliographic details for the respective documents. The provision of the online edition replaces the previous paper edition of the standards in the library. Access is available on the library computers and throughout the university’s IP network.
Please note: Use is restricted to reading only. Downloading, printing or otherwise copying the documents is not permitted and is technically impossible.