Support us with our vision “We connect people and knowledge”!

The University Library Basel is the most important public information centre and therefore the central meeting point for science and society in the region. We are committed to ensuring that everyone has access to the knowledge of the past and to promoting the ideas of the future. Thanks to your contribution, we can continually develop our services qualitatively and innovatively. This makes us an indispensable partner in the areas of research, teaching and cultural heritage.

If you, too, would like to support us in any of our areas of work (collection development, restoration, digitisation and knowledge dissemination), we would be delighted to receive your donation.

With an open donation, you support the University Library with providing its wide range of services. In each case, we use your donation wherever it is most needed.

Your donation to the University Library Basel is tax deductible. We will issue you with a donation confirmation.

By making a legacy donation, you will be supporting the University Library – and thus also research and teaching at the University of Basel – in the long term and beyond your lifetime. As a public library, your legacy will also benefit the wider public and society, and you will be making an important contribution to the preservation of cultural heritage.

By writing a will, you can determine whom, aside from family members, you would like to benefit. In so doing, you can provide the University Library with a legacy or an inheritance.

Bequests may either be unrestricted in their use or earmarked for specific purposes. Unrestricted bequests are generally used for the purchase of media, cataloguing, digitisation or the development of new services. Earmarked bequests are usually directed towards a specific subject area or a major digitisation, restoration or cataloguing project.

Do you wish to receive further details about our work, our institution or the administering of your legacy? You can contact us confidentially at any time. For further information or for a personal discussion, we are available by phone or by email.

You are very welcome to donate books to us. Whether a book is added to the University Library’s collection is at the library’s discretion. Books that are already in the University Library’s collection are not shelved a second time. 

The University Library reserves the right to pass on donated books that are not shelved.

Donated books will not be returned.