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Check library hours. During exam and vacation preriods there are special hours.

Yes, there are 7 rooms in the General Library, 10 in the Economics Library, 2 in the Philosophy and Letters Library, 2 in the Ponferrada Campus Library and 4 in the Industrial Library.

Members of the University Community do not need a physical card to access Library services; the Smart University Card is sufficient, which they can use by installing the "Unileon App".

The Library of the University of León has wireless Internet access in all its rooms. Through the Wi-Fi network you can browse with laptops and mobile devices.
To access the Wi-Fi network you must have an institutional email account, and if you do not belong to this University, have an email account at any of the institutions participating in the Eduroam network.

You can go to any University Library.

Through the desiderata, all members of the University Community can suggest to the University Library the purchase of bibliographic material necessary for study, teaching and/or research if there are no copies in the Library or those that exist are insufficient. More information.

Yes, there are self-service photocopiers in the different Faculties and Schools. There are also two reprography services: on the ground floor of the Faculty of Economics and in the Services Building.

From My Account you can directly renew the copies you have on loan. Books can be renewed for the same period for which they were lent, as long as they have no reserve, the return period has not expired and there is no blockage. If in doubt, go to your library's lending desk.

Reservations are made in the catalog from the "Location" display of an item (after identification).

In the catalog, from the Login option you access the personal area and once identified with the institutional username and password you can view My account. You will obtain information regarding previous and historical loans you have had.

It depends on the type of book or material and the user category. Duration and conditions of the loan according to type of user.

You can request the sending of documents only from the Ponferrada Campus Library to the Vegazana Campus libraries and the Library of the School of Agricultural and Forestry Engineering, from the Vegazana Campus libraries to the Ponferrada Campus Library and the Library from the School of Agricultural and Forestry Engineering and from the Library of the School of Agricultural and Forestry Engineering to the Library of the Ponferrada Campus and the libraries of the Vegazana Campus.

Through the Interlibrary Loan Service.

Laptops, music stands, chargers and other materials that make work easier.

The catalog contains information about all the books, magazines or any other type of materials, including electronic materials, that constitute the documentary collection of the University Library of León.

From the Login option in the catalog you can access the personal area, entering the institutional username and password. You can view user data, access My Account, set favorites, save searches, view our current loans and applications, and check your sanctions.

Through Leganto, which allows the recommended bibliography of the teaching guides to be integrated with the existing funds in the library, and with many other resources that the teacher wants his students to consult in their subject. In this way, students and teachers will have at their disposal all the information about the documents we have in the library about each subject.

In the Buleria repository of the ULE within the section “Communities and Collections / Research / Final Degree and Master's Projects” you can consult a selection of them.
Some libraries have paper TFGs that you can locate through the catalog.

All electronic resources are available in the Catalog

Yes, all members of the University Community can access electronic resources from outside the ULE, there are three ways to access:

■ Institutional Access. Identifying yourself with your institutional email details.

■ Federated Institutional Access. Through the Spanish Network for the Interconnection of Computer Resources of Universities and Research Centers (RedIRIS). This procedure facilitates the recognition of the institution and the identification of the user through institutional email data.

■ Password access. A small part of the resources works with a password that is requested at the Library.

In the A/Z list Electronic resources that appears in the catalog you can access all the databases subscribed to by the ULE.