Reading studios

Access to the reading studios

Reading studios may be used by students and staff at the University of Gothenburg. To get access to the reading studio you will need a certificate from the University's coordinators.

Contact information to the University's coordinators

The reading studios are intended for individual studies. For group studies, you can use our group study rooms instead. All computers in the group study rooms are equipped with support programs.

Booking a reading studio

You can book a reading studio two weeks in advance and book up to two sessions per day. A session is a minimum of 30 minutes and a maximum of six hours. In total, you can book six hours per day, and a maximum of twelve hours at the same time.

Our reading studios are in high demand, so you may only book one room/study place at a time. If you have booked a studio but are not using it within 30 minutes after the start of the session, the studio may be used by someone else.

How to book:

1. Log in to the booking service with your GU account.
2. Choose the desired library and day in the calendar.
3. Choose a studio and a time, enter a signature and confirm your booking.
4. Done! You do not need to confirm your booking in any other way.

Book a reading studio by phone

If you don't want to book the reading studio online, you are welcome to call us instead:

• Art Library, phone 031-786 61 85
• Biomedical Library, phone 031-786 30 02
• Economics Library, phone 031-786 14 31
• Education Library, phone 031-786 23 41
• Humanities Library, phone 031-786 17 45
• Hälsovetarbacken Library, phone 031-786 68 80
• Social Sciences Library, phone 031-786 27 20

Cancel your booking if you cannot use it

There are many who would like to use the libraries' reading studios. Please cancel your booking if you no longer need to use the studio.

Cancel your booking

Bookings cannot be cancelled after the session has started.

Art library

The reading studio is located on the entrance level near the library. Collect the key to the studio at the information desk.

Find the Art Library

Biomedical Library

The reading studio is on floor 4. It has a workstation with Jaws screen reading software. Collect the key to the reading studio from the information desk.

Find the Biomedical Library

Economics Library - support for Braille

The reading studio is located on balcony 1. The computer has Braille display, Braille printer and Jaws screen reading software. The work station does not have SuperNova.

Collect the key for the studio at the information desk.

Find the Economics Library

Education Library

The reading studio is placed near the group study rooms. The reading studio is a shared room, with two study spaces. One study place has a PC computer and one study place has a Mac computer.

Collect the key for the studio at the information desk.

Find the Education Library

Humanities Library

The reading studio is placed on floor 6. The computer has a larger screen (32 inches) which can make it easier to use the SuperNova magnification programme.

Collect the key for the studio at the information desk in the entrance hall.

Find the Humanities Library

Hälsovetarbacken Library

The reading studio is located on the entrance floor. Collect the key for the studio at the information desk.

Find the Hälsovetarbacken Library

Social Sciences Library

Two reading studios are placed near the group study rooms. Reading studio 1 has a special book scanner. Collect the studio keys at the information desk on the entrance floor.

The information desk is unstaffed between 08:00 – 10:00 on weekdays. Call 031-786 27 20 to get access to the key to the reading studio when the information desk is unstaffed.

Find the Social Sciences Library

Software on public computers

Most of the libraries' public computers have support programs such as EasyReader, TorTalk, Supernova and StavaRex. These programs are also available for download to your own computer from the University's download service (requires login).

You can use the computers in the reading studios to work with your own document and files, but in order to save a document you must use either a USB stick or e-mail the file to your own e-mail address.

Equipment in the reading studios

The following equipment are available in the studios:

• Printer.
• Scanner.
• Index Everest Braille printer. Only available at the Economics Library.
• Basic Braille 64. Only available at the Economics Library.
• C-Pen for scanning for scanning of smaller paragraphs, such as single sentences.

Software on the computers

The following software are available on the computers in the reading studios:

• Windows
• Supernova screen reading software.
• Jaws screen reading software. Only available at the Biomedical Library and Economics Library.
• Infovox speech synthesis in both Swedish and English FineReader.
• TorTalk speech synthesis in both Swedish and English.
• FineReader, OCR program for scanning.
• EasyReader for listening to DAISY discs.
• ClaroRead: Reads text from the web with synthesised voice.
• SpellRight: Spelling and grammar programs for English text.
• Stava Rex: Spelling and grammar programs for Swedish text.
• Word Finder: Dictionaries and control of the style and grammar of English text.

Contact us if you need help using the libraries' reading studios.