Library hours
- Monday - Friday: 9 am - 5 pm
and by appointment
Access
- The GHI Library offers free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. Appointments or reader cards are not necessary. The library provides open-stack access but does not lend materials.
Library catalog
Electronic resources
- Several databases can be accessed from inside the GHI network. Online Research Tools provides a list of databases available to users.
Reading Room
- The Reading Room has sixteen stations with electric outlets for laptop computers and wireless internet access. It is also equipped with a microfilm/microfiche scanner.
Collection
- At present the library holds 45,000 titles (books, CD-ROMs, Microfiche/films, DVDs) and subscribes to more than 260 journals. The collection concentrates on German history and German-American relations, with emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Special collections include:
- Business and consumer history
- German Americana
- Histories of German towns and cities
- Finding aids to archives in Germany
- Social and political history of the GDR
- History of German society and social change, 1970-1990
- German unification
- German foreign and security policy
Library Staff
You can send us an e-mail with your questions.
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