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Library hours: Monday - Friday, 9 am - 5 pm and by appointment
Head Librarian: Katharina Kloock
Librarians: Anita Brown, Elisabeth Mait, Luzie Nahr

The library holds about 45,000 books, microfiches and microfilms, and subscribes to more than 260 periodicals. The collection concentrates on German history and German-American relations, with emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The library is open to the public and provides open stack access but does not lend. Readers may conduct searches of the library's holdings through the online catalog and WorldCat. The Reading Room has a microfilm scanner, a photocopier and offers sixteen stations equipped with electric outlets for laptop computers and wireless internet access.

Special collections include business and consumer history, German Americana (about 500 titles), histories of German towns and cities (about 200 titles), finding aids to archives in Germany (about 400 titles), and complete works and editions of important German writers, philosophers, scholars, and intellectuals. New titles to these collections will be added every year. The library provides open shelf access to the Verhandlungen des Reichstags, 1867-1942 and the Parliamentary Papers of the German Bundestag, 1949-1998. The library holds an entire run of Der Spiegel (1947 to the present).

In the Reading Room readers may find the broad collection of reference works, including encyclopedias, address books, maps, biographical reference, and dictionaries. You can send us an e-mail with your questions.