Library and Information Services

The library of the University of the Arts is housed in Hamri, Stakkahlíð 1.

The museum's hours are Monday-Thursday 8:30-16:00 and Friday 8:30-13:00.

Students and staff of LHÍ are welcome to use the library outside of opening hours. To get to the museum, you need to have access to the building in Stakkahlíð, contact the computer service to get such access.

There is a self-service machine in the library, but you have to have a pin number to use the machine, contact the library to get a pin number.

There are reading and working facilities in Stakkahlíð, where you can do project work both individually and in groups.

Telephone: 545 2217
E-mail: bokasafn@lhi.is

Credit services

• LHÍ's library is mainly intended for students, teachers and other school staff, but is also open to others as an expert museum in the field of art.
• Everyone is allowed to visit the museum during its advertised opening hours and familiarize themselves free of charge with the data contained therein. Those who wish to use a loan of data pay an annual fee according to the tariff.
• Anyone who comes to the museum and uses its services is encouraged to familiarize themselves lending rules where information about data lending time, renewal, reserved, etc. is provided.
• Users of the museum can renew their own loans themselves by logging in lhi.leitir.is. You can also contact the library and request a renewal.

Interlibrary loan

• The museum provides interlibrary loans from other museums, for students and teachers, on books or magazine articles that do not exist in the LHÍ library. A fee is charged for interlibrary loans according to the tariff. More about interlibrary loans.

Students and teachers at LHÍ are borrowers free of charge - free for students and staff
General borrowers pay ISK. 2000 for annual fee - for other users 2000 ISK

Interlibrary loan:
Staff and teachers of the Iceland Academy of the Arts pay not for interlibrary loans.
Students pay 1,000 ISK for photocopies of articles and books from national museums.
Others pay 2,000 ISK. for photocopies of articles and books from national museums.
A request for an interlibrary loan is binding and unclaimed requests will be charged.

Lost material:
If a borrower loses or loses a book, he must pay its value to the museum. Exceptions can be made to this, however, and it must be assessed each time.
The same applies to other collection documents such as CDs, DVDs and sheet music, if such data is lost, the borrower must pay the proceeds.

One of the goals of LHÍ's library and information services is to promote information literacy within LHÍ through education and advice to students, teachers and school staff.

Each school year, LHÍ's library and information service has presentations and education for new students, but education is also offered for students who are more advanced in their studies, master's students, teachers and other school employees.

The purpose of the education is to introduce the library to students and the sources of information, digital and printed, to which it provides access and to teach them to use them during their university studies There is also an emphasis on assessing the quality of information and that students can choose from and use it in a targeted manner.

You can order training by sending mail to bokasafn@lhi.is

The LHÍ library has a writing center where LHÍ students are provided with advice in individual interviews regarding:

• Source registration
• Source search
• Information gathering
• Zotero (application that keeps track of permissions)
• Templates and technical issues
• Turnitin
• Return to Skemma

LHÍ teachers have a variety of services available in the library:

• Teachers can make recommendations on what to buy in their fields Teachers send proposals for book purchases to the professional directors in the relevant department. Professional managers make decisions about book purchases submit a request for book purchases to the library.
• Teachers can ask library staff to remove material from the collection and/or submit material that they themselves have study library. In this way, all students in a course can be guaranteed access to the material. It is important that the library receives information about material that is to be in the study library well in advance. Requests for study libraries can be sent to bokasafn@lhi.is
• A library and information scientist can be brought in to make an appointment with a presentation/teaching in source searches in connection with student project work, and if teachers themselves wish to learn better to use specific datasets, individual instruction is offered.
• It is desirable that teachers can provide sources in their course descriptions and that they alert the library before the course begins.

More information about services can be obtained from the museum's employees and/or by sending an inquiry to bokasafn@lhi.is

The library and information service of the Iceland Academy of the Arts was founded in 1999 when the Iceland Academy of the Arts was founded. The museum is built on the basis of the library of the School of Art and Handicrafts and the library of the Iceland School of Drama and the museum advantage was at the time of the establishment of about 13,000 copies. At first, the museum was only operating in Skipholt 1 and Sölvhólsgatu 13. In 2001, the library was opened from Þverholt and Laugarnes and merged into one place in Stakkahlíð 1, where it is now housed with all its activities.