Library stacks

Parts of the Library’s collections are held in compact storage in library stacks. The bulk of Valla Library’s book collection is placed in the open stacks on the first floor in Studenthuset. The University Library’s closed stacks – Bokladan – houses older periodicals and books.

Library stacks in Studenthuset

The open stacks in Studenthuset at Campus Valla houses non-fiction books for loan, the collection of school books and teaching material, juvenile literature, parliamentary papers from the Swedish Riksdag and newspapers on microfilm. Journals from the current and preceding year are also available here.

Opening hours

The regular opening hours for the Library stacks in Studenthuset are Mondays to Thursdays 10.00–18.00, Fridays 10.00–14.00, and Saturdays 11.00–14.00.

LiU students and employees with a valid LiU card with PIN can also access the Library stacks during self-service hours Mondays to Fridays 8.00–10.00 am. Read more about self-service hours

Bokladan

Older periodicals and some books are kept in the closed stacks in "Bokladan," which is the University Library's common stacks located in Kärnhuset at Campus Valla.

Once a day requested books are collected from Bokladan and sent to the library to which they have been ordered. By placing a reservation in the library search service UniSearch, you can order a book in Bokladan in the same way you order books from one LiU library to another.

You can also order article copies from periodicals kept in Bokladan.
Use the article request form

Contact

biblioteket@liu.se

The library stacks in Bokladan with Compactus shelves. — Photographer: Peter Karlsson

Visit Bokladan?

Bokladan is open only by agreement. Email us for further details. Visiting address: Kärnhuset, Olaus Magnus väg 48, Linköping.

Library collections in Bokladan

a) SAB collection

older books shelved according the SAB Classification System

b) Journals and other periodical material published before 2021
c) Report series from the Institute of Technology at LiU
d) Indices and abstract publications
e) Special collections:

AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) papers and conference
proceedings, 1982–2002 (a donation from Saab), including table of contents.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

There are exceptions to these guidelines. See the library search service UniSearch for details. Search UniSearch and the periodicals list to see the location of individual titles:

UniSearch
Periodicals list

Search and borrow

Search books, articles, journals and other publications. Manage your loans and reservations with My Loans. Make an interlibrary loan request or suggest a purchase. Find out about how to obtain a library card and how books are shelved in the library.

Two students at a books shelf in a library.

Library classification system

The library’s main book collection is sorted and shelved according to the Dewey Decimal Classification system, DDC. Books in the SAB Collection are sorted according to SAB and School text books according to subject and educational stage.

Special collections

The Library's special collections include Fors Bergström’s Faroe Islands collection, the library of the GDR Culture Centre (DDR-Kulturzentrum), Wessén's collection (linguistics) and French and German fiction from the private library of Sven Stolpe.