South Tyrol Lending Service
But you can´t find what you are looking for in your local library?
The South Tyrol lending service is the solution! On request, books, DVDs and audio books from the holdings of the Dr. Friedrich Teßmann and Claudia Augusta German and Italian provincial libraries and the Municipal Library Cesare Battisti in Bolzano can be delivered free of charge to one of the following 16 libraries:
Brixen, Bruneck, Eppan, Lana, Leifers (Don Bosco Library), Mals, Meran, Neumarkt (Library in the Ballhaus and Endidae Library), Salurn, Sand in Taufers, Sankt Ulrich, Schlanders, Stern, Sterzing and Toblach.
You can collect and return the items you have ordered at these libraries. Lending is governed by the South Tyrolean lending regulations.
This is how it works:
- Search for the item you want in the online catalogues of the Provincial Libraries or Bolzano Municipal Library:
a. https://tessmann.myargo.bz
b. https://claudiaugusta.provinz.bz.it/
c. https://bcb.gemeinde.bozen.it - Order the item through one of the 16 lending libraries.
- Collect the items you have ordered from your library and return them there.
- Items are delivered once a week.
Additional Service
Provincial Library Dr. Friedrich Teßmann
Readers registered with the Provincial Library can place their order themselves through the catalogue online and decide which library to have it delivered to. The item can be collected and returned there.
The following chart shows the days on which items can be collected from libraries and the order deadlines for receiving items with the next delivery:
| Library / Collection point | Pick-up day at the library | Order deadline for the next delivery |
| Brixen | Friday | Tuesday |
| Bruneck | Tuesday | Thursday of the previous week |
| Eppan | Saturday | Tuesday |
| Lana | Saturday | Tuesday |
| Leifers | Saturday | Tuesday |
| Mals | Wednesday | Thursday of the previous week |
| Meran (municipal library) | Wednesday | Thursday of the previous week |
| Neumarkt (library in the Ballhaus) | Saturday | Tuesday |
| Neumarkt (Bibliothek Endidae) | Saturday | Tuesday |
| Salurn | Tuesday | Tuesday of the previous week |
| Sand in Taufers | Tuesday | Thursday of the previous week |
| Sankt Ulrich | Friday | Tuesday |
| Schlanders | Wednesday | Thursday of the previous week |
| Stern (Endidae library) | Tuesday | Thursday of the previous week |
| Sterzing | Friday | Tuesday |
| Toblach | Tuesday | Thursday of the previous week |
If you wish to return your books through one of the libraries listed above, please make sure that the loan period has not expired.
HOLY WEEK, 25th APRIL, MAY HOLIDAY
Delivery is omitted on the following days:
18th April - Good Friday: suspension affects Lana, Leifers, Neumarkt, Eppan, Salurn
21st April - Easter Monday: suspension affects Bruneck, Sand in Taufers, Stern, Toblach
25th April: Delivery on Friday, 25 April is omitted, but the affected libraries (Lana, Leifers, Neumarkt, Eppan, Salurn) will be delivered or returns will be collected on Wednesday, 23 April.
1st May: suspension affects Lana, Leifers, Neumarkt, Eppan, Salurn
2nd May: suspension affects Brixen, Sterzing, St. Ulrich