How to book a group study room

From 11 April 2022, only the group study rooms (BU Beaulieu, BU Centre) and the carrel of the BU Centre are open for booking.

Book a group study room

Please respect the maximum number of people allowed in the group rooms.

A group room reservation lasts a minimum of 1 hour (30mn at the BU Beaulieu) and a maximum of 3 hours.

You can book a maximum of 6 hours of group room reservations per week.

The person who reserves the room guarantees the following of the safety measures in effect.

BU Beaulieu

12 rooms are available for reservation for groups of 4 to 6 people depending on the room..

Ground floor: 3 rooms for 4 people, 3 rooms for 6 people

1st floor:  3 rooms for 4 people, 3 rooms for 6 people

I book a group study room at the BU Beaulieu

BU Centre

Ground floor: 4 rooms are available for reservation for groups of 6 people maximum and 1 room is available for reservation for group of 4 people maximum (room 052)

1st floor:  4 rooms are freely accessible for groups of 6 people, except room 125 (2 people maximum)

I book a group study room at the BU Centre

Book a carrel

A carrel is available for reservation at the BU Centre - patio. Available for 1 or 2 people maximum.

A carrel reservation lasts a minimum of 1 hour, a maximum of 3 hours.

You can book the carrel for maximum of 6 hours per week.

I book carrel at the BU Centre.

How to book?

1. Online, directly with the tool

Book a seat via the online seat reservation system (Libcal), using your institutional email address only.

Students of the University of Rennes: beware, your email address ends with "@etudiant.univ-rennes.fr". If your email address is not reported properly, you will not receive the confirmation email and will not be able to check into your booking!
  • University of Rennes: @univ-rennes.fr, @etudiant.univ-rennes.fr,
  • Rennes 2 University: @univ-rennes2.fr, @etudiant.univ-rennes2.fr
  • CHU: @chu-rennes.fr (for the BU Villejean Santé only)
  • EHESP: @eleves.ehesp.fr ou @ehesp.fr
  • ENS: @ens-rennes.fr
  • ENSC Rennes: @ensc-rennes.fr, @eleves.ensc-rennes.fr,
  • INSA Rennes: @insa-rennes.fr,
  • Sciences Po Rennes: @sciencespo-rennes.fr, @etudiant.sciencespo-rennes.fr

You can select short or long slots via the drop-down menu at the bottom of the page.

 

2. With the librarians

For all others cases, please contact the library in which you wish to come and work. Librarians will be able to book a seat for you.
You can contact us by email atbu-contactatlistes [dot] univ-rennes1 [dot] fr ( )bu-contactatlistes [dot] univ-rennes1 [dot] fr ( bu-contact[a]listes.univ-rennes.fr.)

 

3. Confimation email

In all cases, you will receive a confirmation email to the address used for the reservation, containing the details of your booking and your reserved seat number. Keep this email well!

You are late

After a 20-minute delay, your reservation may be cancelled by the librarians so that another group can use it.

Change the language of Libcal

You can change the language of our booking system using the drop down menu at the bottom of the Libcal page. Choose to have it speak English, Spanish, Chinese or Irish.