Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut
Preussischer Kulturbesitz


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Library

The photograph shows the reading room at the Ibero-American Institute.

Featuring the largest specialized European library on Latin America, Spain, Portugal and the Caribbean, the Ibero-American Institute (IAI) collects and preserves books, magazines, electronic documents, maps, audio media, photographs, postcards, videos, DVDs, papers, posters, art prints and illustrations and diverse additional materials. At the Ibero-American Institute, the Specialised Information Services Latin America, Caribbean and Latino Studies is funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation). The library systematically acquires materials in all languages and from all corners of the globe. Subject areas include the belles-lettres, humanities, social sciences, economics and jurisprudence, as well as the geological, agricultural and environmental sciences. The library also collects government publications.

All materials are made available to users at the institute itself or through the national and international interlibrary loan system. Materials can also be ordered for a fee from the subito document delivery service. There are seventy-four desks, twenty-six research workstations and various reproduction facilities in the library's reading rooms. All the materials held by the library and the film collection are indexed in the online catalog, except for holdings in the image archive and some material in both the map collection, the papers & manuscripts section, the art prints and illustrations archive, the poster collection, the newspaper clippings collection and the collections from corporate bodies.

Library users must be sixteen years of age or older. For further information please contact the Circulation and Lending Desk.



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