Founded in 1365, by Duke Rudolf, the Founder Vienna University Library is the oldest university library in the German-speaking world. Its history is closely connected with that of Vienna University.

The library’s mission, then and now, is to serve the needs of students, faculty and researchers at Vienna University as well as the general public. It is universal in character striving as far as possible for comprehensive collection development.

The library is strongly committed to the preservation and opening of its holdings and cultural heritage in the broadest sense, including the generation of databases and other electronic resources. Therefore, it seeks to co-operate and co-ordinate with other scientific libraries in Austria and Europe.

OPAC Vienna University Library This catalogue contains all items from 1989 onwards. Also, digitised items are indexed in the Vienna University Library OPAC.	Vienna University Library Catalogue – nominal KatZoom 1932–88 This image catalogue contains all holdings from 1932 to 1988 in nominal order.
Vienna University Library Catalogue – nominal KatZoom up to 1931 This image catalogue contains all books up to 1931 in nominal order. Books that will be available for digitisation will be found here. Vienna University Library will only digitise books dated from before 1900 due to copyright regulations.