Annual maintenance work will take place again this summer, which is why the reading rooms at the Heldenplatz location and in all collections will be closed from Friday, July 25, to Tuesday, August 5, 2025.
Due to the shutdown of the ordering system, no media orders can be accepted from Thursday, July 24, 2025, 4 p.m. to Tuesday, August 5, 2025, 4 p.m. The regular opening hours will then apply again from Wednesday, August 6, 2025.
The study room of the Albertina is closed from July 15 to August 15. During this time (except July 25 to August 5), media ordered from the Albertina collection will be transported twice a week (Monday and Thursday) to the reading rooms of the National Library on Heldenplatz and can be used there.
Starting August 1, 2025, the State Hall will open at 9 a.m.
Due to an event, the State Hall will be closed on August 4, 2025.
If you need books or magazine articles that are not available at any publicly accessible library in Vienna, we are happy to order these for you from anywhere in Europe by means of an interlibrary loan.
Please use the online form in QuickSearch to use our interlibrary service. Please note that all orders are subject to a fee and please expect it to take between two and three weeks to obtain the ordered work.We will inform you by email once the ordered work has arrived.
Books per volume: EUR 3.60
Copies per order: EUR 1.90
Costs per admission: EUR 0.45
Please note that additional costs may be incurred depending on the fees charged by delivery services and individual libraries.
Books per volume: EUR 17.50
Copies of up to five admissions: EUR 6.50
Costs of six admissions or more: EUR 13.-
Please note that additional costs may be incurred depending on the fees charged by delivery services and individual libraries.
The ordered items are issued and taken back at the circulation desk near the Main Reading Room in the Heldenplatz client area from Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Please settle any fees there.
No, books may only be used in the reading rooms of the Austrian National Library.
E-mail: fernleihe[at]onb.ac.at
Tel.: +43 1 534 10-275, +43 1 534 10-411
Fax: +43 1 534 10-276
Post adress:
Interlibrary Loans
Josefsplatz 1
1015 Vienna