GHI Library

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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 40,000 books, microfiches and microfilms, and subscribes to more than 250 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. The Reading Room has sixteen stations equipped with electric outlets for laptop computers and a photocopier, a microfiche and microfilm reader/printer are also available.

Special collections include 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.
Research on every topic discussed in the Reichstag and the Bundestag is possible with these volumes.

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.

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