Location and library

The Department of Translation Studies is located at Herzog-Siegmund-Ufer 15 (on the banks of the River Inn and at the foot of the Alps), in the centre of the city of Innsbruck. Here, around 300 students and around 40 members of staff have access to spacious seminar and lecture rooms, two PC labs (30 + 1 and 12 + 1 workstations), an additional classroom equipped with interpreting cabins, and a student area to enable individually organised studies in manageable group sizes. Situated in the same building, the staff offices and library provide an opportunity to work productively and effectively. Accordingly, this all creates an ideal atmosphere for teaching, self-study, studying in the library, in the PC rooms, chatting with fellow students, discussing your own projects with your lecturers, etc.

The department has a large library (22,000 books), which includes dictionaries, handbooks and reference works, as well as academic literature on the subject areas of translation studies, interpreting studies, linguistics and terminology. In addition to the 10,000 specialised dictionaries, there are 6,000 relevant subject-specific books on various topics in translation studies. There are also 1,000 master's degree theses (including 250 terminological theses).

There are also 30 internationally recognised translation studies journals (e.g. Babel, Interpreting, Target, Terminology, The Translator), which appear in the Electronic Journals Library (EZB) as e-journals of the University and Provincial Library of Tyrol and can be found (in alphabetical order) there. The department library, which can accommodate a total of 70 people, is represented with the entry number 79563-3 in the 38th edition of the "World Guide To Libraries" published by de Gruyter Saur (last published in July 2023) and in the 29th edition of the ‘Handbuch der Bibliothek Deutschland Österreich Schweiz’ (last published in July 2023).

As a department library, the library is connected to the PRIMO academic library network and all works published after 1988 can be found in the online catalogue (OPAC).

 

 

Loan Periods and Overdue Fines

The loan period for handbooks is two weeks. A fee of EUR 0.20 per day and book must be paid for overdue books, plus a one-off reminder fee of EUR 2.00 for each reminder sent. Reference books marked with a red dot as well as dictionaries and encyclopaedias (even without a red dot) may not be borrowed.

For further questions, please contact our library director Univ.-Doz. Dr Georg Jäger

 

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