FAQ

You create a library account on our website. If you are a private person or student at another university or university college, you must show your ID at one of our information points.

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The loan period is normally 3 weeks. The loan period for books requested by another patron is 2 weeks.

The loans on books you have at home are automatically renewed for 6 months (12 months if you are employed at MDU), as long as no-one else is waiting for them. If someone else has requested the book you have borrowed you will get an email stating that the loan could not be renewed.

If you’re late returning a book there is an overdue fine of 5 SEK per book per day. The overdue fine for day loans is 50 SEK per book per day.

You can easily use the app to access your library account wherever you are.

Download the app ”Ex Libris Library Mobile” and choose ”Mälardalens universitet”. The app is available for both IOS and Android.

It is a book you can read on site in the University Library, but not borrow to take home. The books are on special shelves in the library and are labelled with KURS REF on the spine.

Outside the University Library in Västerås there's a self return machine to the right of the University Library's entrance. You can also put books in the mailbox to the right outside the main entrance of the university. Please observe that if you put your books in the mailbox, they will not be returned until the the following day.

In Eskilstuna, on the first floor, to the right of the Student Centre, there's a self return machine. You can also return books in the black box to the right of the entrance at Drottninggatan. Please observe that if you put your books in the black box, they will not be returned until the following day.

Call the security guard and they'll help you: Eskilstuna: 016-15 32 40, Västerås: 021-10 70 40