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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.