Didactic Center Zug

We offer a large variety of teaching aids and teaching materials for planning and designing lessons. Our product range consists of around 25,000 media items for all grade levels of compulsory schooling. It includes a vast amount of non-fiction books, media packages, models, educational games, hand puppets and kamishibais.

All media are listed in the online catalogue.

The Didactic Centre’s collection also includes media from the Centre for Class Reading. These are available in the online catalogue and can be borrowed regularly.

To order class sets, please contact the Bibliomedia Foundation in Solothurn. Their reading promotion programs are also available to Zug teachers free of charge.

To borrow media items from the Didactic Centre, you will have to register free of charge via the registration form. By receiving the library card you accept our rules and regulations.

Certain data is collected for registration at the Didactic Centre. Further details can be found in our privacy policy.

In order to ensure a smooth lending operation, we ask you to report any changes to your contact details immediately via e-mail (bibliothek.dz@zg.ch).

After registration, we will open a library account for you. To log in you will need:

• the ID number = twelve-digit number on ID
• the password = first two letters of your surname and first two letters of your first name

All our media are listed in the online catalogue. Using the search and filter function, you can easily find your desired media.

The watch list is an additional function in the online catalogue. It allows you to mark media that are of particular interest to you.

The Didactic Centre team will be happy to advise you on the selection of media.

The selected media can be reserved in the online catalogue. To do this, you need to log in to your library account. If the media is already borrowed, a reservation will be made. Up to ten reservations are possible per library card.

As soon as your media is available, you will receive a message. We ask that you pick up the media within the specific time period.

There are two exceptions to media reservations:

• Media packages and models can only be reserved by email, telephone or on site. This isbecause we agree on an individual loan period with you.

• It is not possible to reserve media in the online catalogue for a specific date. However, we are happy to accept your wishes by email, telephone or on site.

You can borrow up to 40 media items from the Didactic Centre. For further details, please refer to the rules of use.

Borrowing media is free of charge.

We are always open to new ideas. We will be happy to accept your purchase proposal on site or via the form. We require the following information:

• Author
• Title
• Publisher
• Year of publication
• ISBN

We will inform you about our decision as soon as possible and reserve the purchased medium for you.

You can extend the media loan period three times by two weeks each time. To do this, log in to your library account.

The extension is only possible for media items that are not already reserved.

There is a box situated in front of the Didactic Centre for the purpose of returning media items. The building is open from Monday to Friday from 7.30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and on weekends during the same opening hours of the Museum of Prehistory.

The Didactic Centre is located in Hofstrasse 15 in Zug (2nd floor).

You can reach us by bus (line 614 to the stop "Athene") or car (paid parking).

There is a lift available in our building at Hofstrasse 15 in Zug.

The bathrooms on the ground floor are wheelchair accessible.