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The University Library is a bridge thrown between the Academy and the general public. It is a place of information, work, and communication for researchers, students, teachers, and everybody interested in art and science, covering a range of varied tasks, including, among others: the establishment, operation, and development of analog and digital infrastructures and services for the advancement of education, science, art, and culture in close cooperation with national and international archival, library, information, and museum institutions as well as other interest groups; the support of teaching, research, study, and administration as well as the Academy’s art collections; the collection, storage, indexing, and, wherever possible, barrier-free provision and communication of analog and digital data, information, and cultural heritage; the provision of literature to faculty, staff and students as well as the interested public; the conveyance of information, digital and publishing literacy, as well as the establishment of a platform for the purpose of knowledge transfer and education on art and culture.

Upcoming Events

  • Plant Libraries!

    Bring your zines! Nina Prader will present her Lady Liberty Library Reader in a lecture and invite everyone to join in—as part of the Academy Library’s event series Wer A… sagt.

    Lecture and intervention

    Schillerplatz/ University Library (Reading room, M7)

    University Library

    The color photograph, in landscape format, shows Nina Prader’s “Lady Liberty Library Reader” in a box of books between two plastic containers filled with roses in full bloom. In the background, the window of a shop can be seen, bearing signs such as “Open 365” and “No binding contract.”