UB Slavonic Studies, General and Comparative Literature & Comparative Language Science

• There are  17 study spaces, whereof 1 with PC/screen (see devices).
• 7 of the study spaces are located in the Parlatorium, where conversations are permitted.
• The study spaces can be used at any time without prior reservation.

Item Collection and Return

• Self-checkout station

• Returns box next to the entrance door

• Please note that items will not be cleared from the library account until the next working day (check due date).

Devices

• 1 PC workstation

• Printer (UZH Print Plus instructions)

Lockers

• Lockers are managed by the secretariat.

Additional Services

• Conversation zone (Parlatorium)

The collections of Slavonic Studies and General and Comparative Literature are located at Plattenstrasse 43 (PLG-A-003/004).

The collections of Comparative Language Science are located in closed stacks that are not freely accessible and can be ordered via swisscovery to the UB Slavonic Studies, General and Comparative Literature & Comparative Language Science, to another location of the UB or to the ZB. Books from the storage facility at Seilergraben can be ordered to Plattenstrasse 43 (internal courier, 1x weekly).

Slavonic Studies

With over 100'000 volumes, the University Library has the largest scientific collection in Switzerland in the field of Slavonic Studies. In addition to linguistic and literary literature, it also includes works of fiction in the original Slavic languages (Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Sorbian, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovenian, Bulgarian, Macedonian) - an attraction also for external users of Slavic mother tongue.

Here you find an overview of the call numbers: Signaturenschlüssel (PDF, 565 KB) (in German)

General and Comparative Literature

The collection of General and Comparative Literature consists of primary and secondary literature in various languages (mainly German-, French- and English-language texts) as well as standard works from the auxiliary disciplines of language theory, philosophy, psychology, art history, sociology.

The donation of Carola Giedion-Welcker is part of the collection (see Collections and Special Holdings of the UB).

A large selection of journals in literary studies can be found at the location. The current issues of the current journals are available in reading room 001 (Plattenstrasse 43, UG).

Comparative Language Science

Two departments are supervised: General Linguistics and Indo-European Studies.

The majority of the collection is located in closed stacks near Plattenstrasse 43. The delivery time for items from this repository to the UB Slavonic Studies, General and Comparative Literature & Comparative Language Science, to another location of the UB or to the ZB is 1 working day. Customers can be granted access to the premises upon prior request (to sprachwissenschaft@ub.uzh.ch).

The rest of the collection is located at our storage facility at Seilergraben. Mainly older literature and back issues of journals are stored there. The delivery time for items from this storage is 7 working days. The premises are not accessible to customers.