Freie Universität Berlin

The Central Library and the department libraries cooperate as one of the largest University Libraries in Germany.

The University Library (UB) is the central lending library; with holdings of 2.3 million printed items, it is the largest library at the Freie Universität Berlin.

The Campus Library for Sciences, Cultural Studies, Education, Mathematics, Computer Science and Psychology combines the holdings of 24 of the former Freie Universität Berlin department libraries.

The University Library reading room contains some 80,000 volumes, mainly encyclopedias, reference literature, bibliographies, handbooks, dictionaries, editions of sources and texts.

The Philological Library serves the Philologies and Philosophy in a building designed by Norman Foster (completed in 2005).

The library possesses outstanding holdings for North American Studies. It receives special funds from the German research foundation DFG to maintain and develop its exceptional collection of North American news papers.

The Law Library is a reference library with some 800,000 printed volumes and 520 working spaces.

The Subject Library History and Art History unites the departmental libraries for history and art history at one location.
With the collection Detlef M. Noack, it houses one of the largest publicly accessible collections of facsimiles of medieval manuscripts in Germany

The Veterinary Library on Düppel campus holds more than 160,000 items – in a former riding hall.

The Freie Universität Berlin School of Business & Economics Library with its approximately 600,000 volumes and a wide range of electronic media is the largest Economics library in Berlin.