Library Innovation Timeline

“Teachers, students and researchers often have questions about copyright. TU Delft Library has launched a new Copyright website where you can find almost tailor-made answers to copyright questions about re-using materials, publishing your own work, copyright exceptions and agreements/contracts, plagiarism and more. This step-by-step APA style website, serves as an information desk and demonstrates best copyright practices used at TU Delft. Take a look and found out the answers to your questions yourself!”

We create immersive experiences that connect you with your audience by recording and live streaming events. Imagine that you can make your in-person event available for remote attendance in real time or just bring your story to a bigger audience worldwide and make it serve you for years.

As front-runners in the field, we utilize a people-centered process to enhance the user experience of our services. Through collaborative methods that engage both customers and service delivery teams, we gain a holistic understanding of our users and the services we provide. Join us in revolutionizing service delivery by exploring our page to learn more about our service design projects.

100,000s of maps are available through IIIF, across libraries, archives and museums worldwide. Allmaps makes it easier and more inspiring to curate, georeference and explore collections of digitized maps.

We publish high-standard publications on subjects that are relevant to TU Delft, offering a community-driven, open access communication channel. We explore new forms of scholarly communications, providing innovative and trusted home for journals, books and textbooks.

We extend the possibilities of reality with the use of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality technologies. We are here to become your portal to the immersive world of XR (extended reality) and to assist students, lecturers and researchers in using, building and exploring this tech in education and research.

A special book tree was created in the Mekelpark for exchanging inspirational books about personal and professional development following the popular and familiar ideas of the free little libraries: take one, leave one. After the successful introduction of the Read Me tree, satellite locations followed the concept with a small book crate of free books, both on campus at X and in the city centre at coffee houses and a community centre, until maintenance of these satellite locations was no longer feasible in 2020. The same year the tree had to be cut down, due to disease. In 2024 the remaining book tree stump..Read more

PURE replaces Metis Pure is a web-based research information system (RIS). It stores all TU Delft research output, such as publications, news items, patents, prizes and activities of TU Delft researchers.

A fully integrated library management platform designed to meet the changing needs of modern libraries. TU Delft Library was an early adopter of the platform.

TUlib was developed by the Education Support team at TU Delft Library. It can be used on its own, but is closely linked to our information literacy instructions for Bachelor students: Information Literacy I and Information Literacy II.

In higher education and research efficently finding and judging relevant scientific information is critical. Information skills are essential for all students (Bachelor & Master) and for researchers. The TU Delft Library offers students courses to develop these information skills.

The TU Delft Publication environment encompasses three repositories, each targeting a different group: Research Repository, Education Repository and Cultural Heritage Repository.