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.
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS 2025/26: DELIVERY SERVICE ACTIVE
The delivery service for interlibrary-loan libraries is omitted from 24th to 28th December 2025, on 31st December 2025, and on 1st and 6th January 2026.
NEW: Between the holidays, the following libraries will be supplied on the days indicated:
Bruneck: 05.01.2026
Sand in Taufers: 29.12.2025, 05.01.2026
Toblach: 29.12.2025, 05.01.2026
Mals: 30.12.2025
Schlanders: 30.12.2025
Meran: 30.12.2025
Lana: 02.01.2026
Neumarkt Ballhaus: 02.01.2026
Neumarkt Endidae: 02.01.2026
Eppan: 02.01.2026
For the other libraries (Brixen, Leifers, Salurn, Stern, St. Ulrich and Sterzing), the last delivery before the holidays will take place in the week before Christmas on the specified day of the week (see table above).
From 7th January 2026, all libraries will be supplied on the usual days.
We wish all readers a merry Christmas and a happy New Year!