Library of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development

The library of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin is a specialised science library. It provides access to print and electronic media for fundamental research in the fields of adaptive behaviour and cognition, developmental psychology, science of education and educational systems, the history of emotions, the sociology of life events, and related areas. The library’s collection of monographs currently encompasses around 211,000 volumes. It has been using DDC for classificatory cataloguing purposes since 2003, and books in the reference collection are shelved according to DDC.

Contact: engelhardt@mpib-berlin.mpg.de