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The main task of the library is to provide the Institute’s academic staff with information of all kinds. Moreover, the library is open to researchers from all around the world, who may use the facility as invited guests.
PhD students and students (a faculty member’s letter of reference is required) are allowed to use the library, too.
To register and for short visits to the library, please send an e-mail in advance to the following address: bibinfo@mpil.de. Alternatively, please use our registration form.
For general inquiries, please aso use the email address bibinfo@mpil.de.
Library users may use only the scanner area for research and scanning, even without a permanent workplace in the reading room.
Library staff are available for assistance (including registration):
Monday - Thursday | 10:30 - 16:00 |
Friday | 10:30 - 15:30 |
New Registration at the Library is only possible within the service times until 15:00.
The library's reading rooms are open for usage:
Monday - Friday | 09:00 - 19:00 |
The library equipment includes:
Members of the following three groups are able to access our licensed online resources on application: PhD students, post-doctoral students and researchers or scholarship holders of an academic institution
The library is a reference library, i.e. loans outside the Institute are excluded. The library is not participating in national or international interlibrary loan. Scans (carbon copies as an exception) from journals and monographs may be sent under adherence to the copyright law in force by our interlibrary loan.
10 golden rules concerning the reading room
On Monday, 2nd of October and Tuesday, 3rd of October 2023 the Institute will be closed for the public due to bridge day and holiday.
Reading rooms
Monday - Friday | 09:00 - 19:00 |
Loan desk service times
Monday - Thursday | 10:30 - 16:00 |
Friday | 10:30 - 15:30 |
Initial personal registration at the Library is only possible within the service times until 15:00.