Library

The University Library offers a wide set of information resources, facilities and services to support learning, teaching and research-oriented activities.

The University Library is accessible in the three campus through a network of eleven libraries coordinated by the central library of the University campus of Vigo. It is part of the Vice-chancellorship of Research.

Although mainly targeted at members of the university community, the library allows access to people outside the University of Vigo as external users.

If you are a new or foreign student and you would like to know how to take your first steps in the library, check our Guide for newly enrolled students or the Guide for international students (in English).

The library is managed with a quality management system certified according to ISO 9001 standard. Likewise, the library is part of cooperative environments such as CRUE-Rebiun, the Consorcio Bugalicia, Dialnet and UNICi2.

With the start of the new academic year, and in the current framework created by the Covid-19, from 7th September the University Library will open its doors to the public although with some limitations derived from the application of safety and hygiene measures. From that date, the eleven libraries will allow the use of their rooms and study seats in accordance with the Instructions for reopening the library study rooms (in Galician) and, for borrow books, in accordance with the Borrowing books instructions (in Galician). Information about library opening hours and maximum capacity allowed can be found in the section "Libraries" on our website.

* You can see here which library seats are available (select the library and press the "send" button)

Clear up your doubts about how to use the Library during the COVID-19 crisis in our FAQ (in Galician)

Notice: following the decision of the Governance team, the central libraries of Vigo, Ourense and Pontevedra and the library of Torrecedeira will be opened on the weekends between Saturday 19th December and Sunday 24th January from 9am to 9pm. We don't issue external user cards during these weekend opening hours.

Opening hours

Standard opening hours (Monday-Friday)

Central Vigo Library: from 8:30 am to 9 pm
Central Ourense Library: from 8:30 am to 9 pm.
Central Pontevedra Library: from 8:30 am to 9 pm
Economics & Business Sciences Library: from 8:30 am to 8:45pm
Experimental Sciences Library: from 8:30 am to 8:45 pm
Fine Arts Library: from 8:30 am to 8:45 pm
Industrial-Mining Library: from 8:30 am to 8:45 pm.
Legal & Labour Sciences Library: from 8:30 am to 8:45 pm
Philology & Translation Library: from 8.30 am to 8.45 pm
Telecommunication Engineering Library: from 8:30 am to 8:45 pm
Torrecedeira Library: from 8:30 am to 9 pm.

Weekend opening hours* (weekends from Saturday 19 December 2020 to Sunday 24 January 2021)

Central Vigo Library: from 9am to 9pm
Central Ourense Library: from 9am to 9pm
Central Pontevedra Library: from 9am to 9pm
Torrecedeira Library: from 9am to 9pm (UVigo students only)

* During these special hours, libraries only provide a service of study space and consultation of freely accessible bibliographic materials, but not other ordinary services such as loan, interlibrary loan, access to electronic resources, etc.