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Frankfurt: Thursday 5 June 2025

The reading rooms of the German National Library in Frankfurt am Main will open at 13:00 on Thursday, 5 June due to a staff assembly. The exhibitions of the German Exile Archive 1933–1945 will be open from 9:00 to 21:30.

Multimedia/periodical reading room

The reference collection in the multimedia/periodical reading room contains current daily and weekly newspapers along with around 1,800 selected periodicals in all important subject categories and a computer science reference collection. To the catalogue


You can use the computers in the reading room to access the catalogue and full texts of online resources such as e-books, music files, digitized works, e-papers and databases.

The electronic publications (e.g. CD-ROMs, audio CDs or DVDs) ordered are made available at designated computers.

You will also find reader scanners, copiers and printers there.

Our qualified staff will help you search for, order and use electronic media such as CD-ROMs, audio CDs and DVDs.

Internet access at the stationary workstations is free of charge, as is WLAN (DNB network and eduroam), which can be used on your own mobile devices.

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