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At present the library holds 48,500 titles (books, CD-ROMs, Microfiche/films, DVDs) and subscribes to more than 220 journals. The collection concentrates on German history and German-American relations, with emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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 hours
  • Monday - Thursday: 9 am to 5 pm, Fridays: 9 am to 4 pm, and by appointment.

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 electric outlets for laptop computers and wireless internet access.

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
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