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Currently, three disciplines, namely, history, political science, and sociology, account for the largest part of Library holdings, which now total about 40,000 volumes.
Print holdings are supplemented by online resources found in DigiBib (Digitale Bibliothek). Besides books, CD-ROMs, DVDs, videos, and databases, the Library holds subscriptions to some 260 academic and political journals in print and 30 online periodicals, all of which can be used on site.
The Library utilizes a classification system tailored to the Institute’s profile and designed to facilitate on-site orientation and direct stack access to literature on specific subjects. In the subject area headed Social Movements, the classification system is applied to both the Library’s stocks and Archives holdings Classification System of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research’s Library
The Library’s holdings are extended continuously with new acquisitions in subject areas that are related to the three research units at the Institute and to the special collection on Social Movements / Protest Movements.
- Special collection Social Movements / Protest Movements in the Federal Republic of Germany
This collection comprises holdings from the Library and the Archives of the Institute and is associated with the Research Unit: The Society of the Federal Republic of Germany. This collection encompasses about 4,000 single volumes and multiple-volume books and 1,700 periodical titles, including about sixty current journal subscriptions.
The following lists offer an outline of the Library’s holdings related to the three research units:
- Theory and History of Violence
Peace and conflict studies; theory of violence; Cold War and Vietnam War; colonial wars; modes of warfare; terrorism, the future of war; war and gender; debates on totalitarianism; Holocaust; Gulag; genocide research; "Vergangenheitsbewältigung" and the politics and culture of memory; politics and history of the USA in the twentieth century - Society of the Federal Republic of Germany
Transformations of the social state; precariousness; social inequality and processes of exclusion; the labor court system; the German question in politics (division and unification); post-World-War-II war crime trials; new world order; globalization; the Berlin republic; social class; contemporary and historical social movements and protest movements - Nation and Society
Nation/nationalism; state sovereignty; immigration and society; xenophobia; anti-Semitism and other prejudices; right-wing extremism; anti-fascism/political initiatives against right-wing extremism; policies affecting foreigners/refugees/people seeking political asylum