Freie Universität Berlin: Library of the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies

With around 900,000 media units, the Library of the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies has Germany’s largest collection of works on North America, and the range of subjects covered is unique in continental Europe. Along with philological works, it also collects media that focus on sociology, politics, history, culture and economics in the USA and Canada. Special attention is paid to microforms. A wide variety of newspapers, for example, are collected with the support of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and archived on microfilm. Almost the entire collection is freely accessible and shelved systematically. DDC has been used for this purpose since 2000. A large part of the collection is available for borrowing. The library is also part of the nationwide interlibrary lending network.