The EUI Library provides easy access to the resources you need, both onsite and online. Our services include book delivery, borrowing and renewals, interlibrary loans.
You can also suggest new book purchases, reserve materials, and make use of our scanning, printing, and photocopying facilities.
Library catalogue is your starting point for discovering print and digital materials, checking their availability, and placing requests for items that are on loan, missing from the shelves, or held in storage.
Charter of Services 2025
Last update: September 2025
English (1598 KB - pdf)
Accessing the library
The EUI Library welcomes a diverse community of users, offering different levels of access depending on their affiliation with the Institute. Your EUI card identifies your membership category and determines your rights within the Library—whether you are a current member with full privileges, a former member with limited access, or an external user granted consultation rights.
My Library Account
My Library Account
EUI members
- Full rights: full access to Library resources and borrowing
If you are an EUI member, faculty, researcher, fellow, visiting professor or scholar, Emeritus or Distinguished member, or administrative staff, you have full access to all Library resources, both print and digital, on and off campus, as well as to all services, including borrowing privileges, for the entire duration of your EUI affiliation.
Former members and Alumni
- Limited rights: partial access with restricted borrowing
External users
- Consultation only: on-site use of materials but no borrowing
Your EUI Card shows your name and photo and should be kept safe at all times.
- Always bring your EUI Card. It is personal and must not be shared with others.
- Library staff may ask to see your card for identification or verification at any time.
Your EUI card provides access to a range of essential services and facilities:
For EUI members:
- Entry to all EUI buildings
- Access to the Library (Monday to Saturday)
- Borrowing of books and other Library materials
- Printing, copying, and scanning services
- Cashless payments at canteens and cafeterias through the card’s prepaid function
For former members (including alumni)
- Entry to EUI buildings (Monday to Friday)
- Access the Library (Monday through Friday)
- Borrowing books and other Library materials
- Printing, copying, and scanning services
- Cashless payments at canteens and cafeterias through the card’s prepaid function
For external users (including partners)
- Access to the Library (Monday through Friday) but no other EUI buildings, facilities, or services such as borrowing or cafeteria payments.
Printing, copying, and scanning services are available upon registration through the MyPrint portal. (Printing for externals link).
The Library is open to EUI members:
- 8:30-22:30 Monday to Friday
- 9:00-22:30 on Saturday (No access to external users)
The Library is closed on the following dates in 25/2026:
- 20-31 December 2025: Winter closure
- 2-7 April 2026: Easter break
- 1 May 2026: Labour Day
- 3-16 August 2026: Summer closure
- 30 October 2026: All Saints’ festivities
- 21-31 December 2026: Winter closure
EUI Alumni
The EUI Library welcomes EUI researchers, fellows, and professors with alumni status. EUI alumni enjoy free, lifelong access to many Library services. EUI alumni can physically access the Library and have limited borrowing rights. Licensed electronic resources are accessible on-site and must be used in compliance with copyright and licence agreements.
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External Users
The EUI Library welcomes academic staff, postgraduate, and doctoral students from other universities who are not formally affiliated with the EUI. Access for research purposes requires submission of an application form at least three working days before the intended visit. Once approved, confirmation and Wi-Fi credentials will be provided by email.
External users may consult all books on open shelves and most licensed electronic resources within the Library premises.
Borrowing rights are not included. All materials must be used in accordance with copyright law and licence agreements.
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Library spaces
From quiet reading rooms to height-adjustable workstations, the Library offers comfortable spaces for focused study and group collaboration. Several rooms can be booked for group work, meetings, or workshops. In addition, two secure data rooms are available for EUI members using restricted data. Lockers, assigned at the start of each academic year, provide secure storage for personal belongings.
Floorplans:
- Ground Floor : Library entrance and Loan Desk, Course Reserve Shelf, lockers, and Reading rooms, Secure Data Room (PDF)
- First Floor : Reading rooms, Stockholm Meeting Room, IAB data room (PDF)
- Second Floor: Reading Rooms, EDC (PDF)
- Top Floor – Reading rooms, Casesse Room, Discussion Room, and Social Room (PDF)
Book a room
- Discussion room
The Discussion room can be booked to hold videocalls or for discussions with up to 8 people. The room offers the following features: Video projector with HDMI connectivity for laptop integration and whiteboard.
Location: Top floor
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- Stockholm meeting room
The Stockholm meeting room can be reserved for meetings and can accommodate up to 16 people. The room offers the following features: Motorised projection screen, speaker, one wireless microphone, mobile whiteboard and wall mounted whiteboard.
Location: First floor
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Social room
The Social room provides a space within the Library for users to relax and take and make phone calls. No bookings required.
Location: Top floor
Workspaces and Lockers
First-come, first-served' Workspaces
The 174 workspaces at the Library are not allocated to individuals and are available on a first-come, first served basis.
Desks can be used on a day-at-a-time basis for anyone with Library access rights. These spaces are cleared of all material every day before Library opening.
Lockers
- The Library has 158 lockers for EUI members. These are allocated by Academic Service at the beginning of each academic year.
- Once allocated, the corresponding locker key is registered to the user’s Library account with a return date.
- Users must clear the locker and return the key by this date. However, if a user wishes to retain the locker for the following academic year, then they should send an email asking for a renewal of the locker key to the Academic Service before the due date
- Users will be fined for an overdue locker key and billed for the replacement cost of a lost or unreturned key. See Library Fines. Users who lose their locker keys must inform the library.
- During the period for which they have borrowed a locker-key, users may store at their own risk items needed for their research. Library material which has not been checked out (including material that cannot be borrowed such as journals and reference material), and food and drink cannot be stored in the locker.
- Lockers are not a secure personal space and the Library takes no responsibility for personal belongings and valuables stored in them. The Library reserves the right to inspect lockers and to withdraw locker rights if the rules are not observed. Lockers will be cleared by the Library if, after due notice, the key-holders fail to clear them.
- Infractions of the Rules will lead to the immediate withdrawal of locker rights.
Printing, scanning, copying
The Library offers intuitive cloud-connected printers and scanners conveniently located on each floor. These multifunction devices support printing, copying, and scanning, allowing you to send print jobs from any computer or personal device and securely collect them at any printer using your EUI card for authentication.
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Collections
Discover the Library’s print and digital collections, including books, journals, data resources, EU and UN documents, EUI theses, and featured curated materials—each offering direct access to key tools for research and study.
Featured collections
Featured collections
News resources
News resources
Special collections
Special collections
Accessing e-resources
The Library catalogue is the primary access point for discovering the library’s collection of databases, e-Journals, e-Books, news sources, and data sets. Remote access to licensed electronic resources is restricted to current EUI members. EUI Alumni and external users can access on campus when connected to the EUI Network. More information on how to use e-resources in the library guide.
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Borrowing, renewals and loans
Librarians are available Monday to Friday from 8:30 to 18:30, with self-checkout available after hours. EUI members can borrow up to 60 items, alumni and former members up to 10, and external users only through their home library. Most books are loaned for 30 days and can be renewed. All items must be checked out before use.
Borrowing on behalf of someone else requires authorisation and their library card. Due dates are calculated automatically, only open days are counted, items cannot be borrowed beyond the expiry of the borrower’s card, and overdue fines apply.
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Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
EUI members may obtain materials not available in the Library collections by submitting an Interlibrary Loan (ILL) or a Document Delivery.
All requests must be directly relevant to the user’s research.
The EUI Library provides materials from its collections to external libraries requesting items on behalf of their users. Interlibrary.
Requests for non-circulating materials or items subject to restrictive licenses, such as EUI theses and e-resources, will be assessed on a case-by-case basis in accordance with copyright law and terms of use.
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