Please deposit jackets, bags and food and drink items in the lockers before using the reading rooms on the 1st floor as well as the open stacks and journals stacks. For this purpose, 900 day lockers are available in the basement to use free of charge.

UNIcard

Members of the university use their UNIcard for the lockers.

Members of the public

The PRINTcard (copy card) of the university libraries can also be used to use the lockers.

If someone does not have a PRINTcard, but is registered in swisscovery and has a library card for the university library, they will be given a badge at the Infodesk for use of the lockers. The badge will be stuck onto the library card and can be reused indefinitely.

Guests

All other visitors will receive a guest card at the Infodesk in return for a deposit. The guest card must be returned the same day.

Users with physical disabilities

For users with physical disabilities, 15 lockers are available on the ground floor (the lockers in the basement are not wheelchair-accessible). Please contact the Infodesk for an authorisation card.

Terms of use for the day lockers

Members of the University of Basel can rent a locker in the University Main Library free of charge for a maximum of two semesters (starting each autumn semester until the beginning of august of the following year).

The lockers are located in the basement (after the stairs on the rights in the room furthest at the back).

Terms of use

By tram

Tram no. 3 to Spalentor

By bus

Bus no. 30 to Spalentor or Bernoullianum

Mail address

Universitätsbibliothek Basel
Schönbeinstrasse 18-20
4056 Basel
Switzerland

Delivery of goods

For deliveries of goods please contact the caretaker at the University Main Library 2-3 hours before the delivery by phone on +41 61 207 31 77 or via email at hausdienst-ub@clutterunibas.ch.

Coordinates

DMS 47° 33′ 33.84″ N, 7° 34′ 52.32″ E
Dezimal 47.5594, 7.5812