The migration of the new library management system Alma is completed successfully, so all services are available again. We were working on this project for 13 month, which has been quite complex, therefore unconsistensies still may occur. In case you notice any failures, please give us your feedback to alma-kernteam@fh-swf.de. Thank you for your understanding.
What is new?
Registration- University members: From now on, university members need to register once for using the library via the university's website. Both, new university members and those already registered as users in the old system, must agree to the use of the library.
By accessing problems to ( https://myaccount.fh-swf.de) please delete your browser-webcache or use another browser. Furthermore, please disable your VPN-connection. - Non-university members / external users: Registration for new external users (non-university members) for using the library is carried out via a web form, which is provided as a link in the navigation menu of our online catalogue KAI. After sending the form, the library card must be collected in person from a branch library within 4 weeks, otherwise the registration data will be deleted again. Users who already are registered will have to create a new password via the web form.
- Number of loans: The number of loans is not limited.
- Status 'short-term loan': Items with the status 'short-term loan' can be borrowed for 24 hours (overnight). This applies to all user groups.
- Requesting media: Media can be requested from all branch libraries. The number of open requests at the same time (copies provided and requested) is limited to 10 for students and external users (non-university members).
- Provision: Requested media (including interlibrary loans) are available to be collected for 10 days.
- Renewal date: Renewal is possible from the second day after the loan.
- Renewal period: The maximal renewal period of media after a loan is 26 weeks for students and 9 weeks for external users (non-university members).
- Notifications: Notifications will be sent 7 days before the end of the loan period to inform you about the expiry.
- Fees: Once the fees in the library account exceed the limit of 10 euros, requests, renewals and (interlibrary) loans are no longer possible. This applies equally to students and external users (non-university members).
Course reserves
New procedure: In future, the establishment and closing of course reserves will be requested via a
web form. The establishment is carried out for a period of 380 days. 4 weeks before the end of the period, the owner of the course reserve will be contacted and asked to check and provide feedback as to whether it is still complete and whether it should be extended, changed or dissolved. If no feedback is received in time, the library will remove the course reserve. Course reserves can be found in the online catalogue KAI via the search scope of the same name, also via the name of the owner.
Research in the online catalogue KAI
After the launch of Alma, we have to carry out some more work on our online catalogue KAI. We ask for your patience and for feedback in case of failures, errors etc. via the feedback link underneath the searchbar.