Addresses

Garching:
European Southern Observatory
ESO Library Garching
Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2
85748 Garching near Munich
Germany

E-Mail: library [at] eso.org
Tel: +49-89-320 06-280 (Uta Grothkopf)
Tel: +49-89-320 06-775 (Silvia Meakins)
Fax: +49-89-320 06-9280

Santiago:
European Southern Observatory
Biblioteca Santiago
Alonso de Córdova 3107, Vitacura
Casilla 19001
Santiago 19
Chile

E-Mail: mgomez [at] eso.org
(contact for all Chilean ESO libraries)
Tel: +56-2-463 3153
Tel. directly from La Silla: 3153
Fax 1: +49-89-32006645
Fax 2: +56-2-4633101

Introduction to ESO Libraries

For an overview of the services offered by the ESO Libraries, please refer to the following sources:

• slides shown during the ESO Induction Course: ESO_Libraries_intro.pdf
• Grothkopf, U.: Astronomy Libraries -- Your Gateway to Information
  Draft version of a paper publ. in: Scientific Writing School for Young Astronomers (SWYA), C. Sterken (ed.), EDP Sciences, EAS Publication Series, v. 49, 2011

Staff & Opening Hours

Uta Grothkopf and Silvia Meakins (Garching)
Maria Eugenia Gomez (Chile)

The libraries are open 24 hours per day. Librarians at both facilities are available between 9:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. (local time).

Holdings

Books: approx. 15,000 items
Optical Library G. Franke: 320 items
ESO Historical Archive: 170 items
A collection from Prof. Oort
Current Journal Subscriptions: approx. 150 titles

The Library Catalog contains records of all library items and provides access to electronic publications. Most important electronic journals can also be accessed from the e-journals page.

Paper preprints are kept for one year. If you have difficulties to locate them, please let us know.

Loan Policies

Library items can be checked out at the public terminals in the libraries. If you don't have a user account yet or need help, please send us a note or stop by the library office. The typical loan period is one month; exceptions are possible. In case an item is requested by somebody else, we will contact the current user. Library staff must have access to borrowed items at any time.

You can review the list of all items currently checked out to your account as follows:

• access the library catalog (chose Library Catalog on the libraries' homepage at http://www.eso.org/libraries/
• select My Account in the light blue horizontal bar
• choose Review My Account
• enter your library user ID (your email address without '@eso.org')
• click Display User Information

Journals (bound and unbound) cannot be borrowed. If you need any volumes or issues urgently, please contact the librarians

Acquisitions, Requests, etc.

At any time and for all kinds of requests, you are invited to stop by the library office, phone the librarians (phone numbers as indicated above) or use the library's web form.

If you prefer to browse through the books on the library shelves, you might wish to get information about the classification system used by the ESO Libraries.