Opening hours: Monday-Saturday 8:00-23:00 (service: 9:00-18:00), Sunday 10:00-18:00 (no service).
Opening Hours and Locations
The SLUB is comprised of the Central Library and five other branch libraries, each with its own innovative learning spaces and utilisation concepts such as workshops, a community garden and modern group work areas.
DrePunct / Makerspace Library
Library opening hours: Monday-Friday 9:00-20:00 (Service: 9:00-18:00)
Makerspace opening hours: Monday 9:00-12:30, Tuesday till Thursday 9:00-12:30 and 16:00-19:30, Friday 9:00-15:30
August-Bebel-Straße / TextLab Library
Opening hours: Monday-Friday 9:00-20:00 (Service: 9:00-18:00)
Interim Bergstraße / Open Science Lab Library
Opening hours: Monday-Friday 9:00-18:00
Fiedlerstraße / Medicine Library
Opening hours: Monday-Friday 9:00-22:00 (service: 9:00-18:00), Saturday 10:00-18:00 (without service).
Tharandt / Forestry Library
Opening hours: Monday - Tuesday 9:00-18:00, Wednesday - Friday 9:00-16:00
Closing days 2025
All SLUB locations are closed on the following public holidays and special closing days:
- Good Friday, 18.04. - Easter Monday, 21.04.
- May Day, 01.05.
- Ascension Day, 29.05.
- Whit Saturday, 07.06. - Whit Monday, 09.06.
- Closing days, 02.09. and 03.09.
- Day of German Unity, 03.10.
- Reformation Day, 31.10.
- Day of Prayer and Repentance, 19.11.
- Christmas, 24.12. - 26.12.
- New Year's Eve, 31.12.25 - New Year's Day, 01.01.26