By setting up seminar collections, we offer you the opportunity to bring together the basic literature for your current courses in one place across all subjects.
In addition to the separate books, a seminar apparatus also consists of a literature list in which all media, including e-books, are listed. The literature list can be viewed in ORBISplus.

For each course at the University of Oldenburg, the person responsible can apply for a seminar apparatus.

A seminar apparatus can be requested using the following web form.

Form: Proposal to set up a seminar apparatus

The proposal should be received no later than six weeks before the start of the semester in order to ensure timely processing.

The proposal for the establishment of a seminar apparatus must include

• organisational unit
• Title of the seminar unit
• Person responsible
• Provision period
• Literature list

The bibliography should contain the following information:

• Title
• Author
• Place and year of publication
• Signature of the title in BIS, if applicable

Subsequent additions can be made by email to:

The most important basic literature on a topic/event should be summarised in a seminar apparatus. As a rule, this is 10 to 30 works. However, there is no explicit restriction.

If the desired title is available as an e-book, you will find it in the literature list in ORBISplus. In this case, we will dispense with the printed version in the course catalogue.

Copies of essays, photocopies etc. can be added to a course catalogue. Lecturers or their authorised representatives are responsible for providing these themselves. This also applies to ordering journal articles via interlibrary loan.

Certain works from the holdings of the University Library are not included in seminar catalogues, as they belong to the reference collection and must always be available at their respective locations. These are works labelled "H" (=handbook), "W" (=dictionary), "B" (=bibliography) or "Z" (=journal). For these holdings, however, a location record will be added to the seminar apparatus. The same applies to holdings from special collections, such as the test collection.

Seminar apparatus is always kept on display, the works cannot be borrowed.

Seminar apparatus are set up on the respective subject levels of the Central and Departmental Library and in the media library. Each seminar apparatus has its own code.

After the seminar apparatus has been set up, the links to the final literature lists are sent to those responsible. The links can then be forwarded or uploaded to Stud.IP.

The seminar catalogues can be viewed in ORBISplus in the University Library view. It is also possible to search for seminar codes or lecturer names.