Profile of the library

The library is a scientific special library whose main objective is to procure, archive and make accessible scientific literature. The collections open are as well to students, pupils and the interested public.

The library owns some special collections, for example the personal collections of ornithological literature by Creutz, of literature about bugs by Jordan, or about butterfly literature by Scheffel.

The inventory of the library is systematically ordered by the following main subjects:

1. General information
2. Jurisprudence
3. Dictionaries
4. Mathematics
5. Physics
6. Chemistry
7. Astronomy, Meteorology
8. Serials
9. Biographies
10. Biology
11. Theory of evolution, Genetics                
12. Ecology
13. Microbiology
14. Mycology
15. Botany
16. Zoology
17. Geology, Mineralogy, Palaentology
18. Agriculture and forestry, hunting, freshwater fisheries
19. Nature conservation and environmental protection
20. Geography
21. Museology

The library’s general stock of literature is situated in the library building. Some minor collections of frequently used specialist literature are constantly being lent to the heads of department

Collection / Statistics

Monographs 25,000    
Periodicals (vols.) 94,700
Maps 1,350
Audio-visual material 5,200
Scripts from the Naturforschende Gesellschaft zu Görlitz 260                      
Special prints (yet to be registered) 25,800
Total stock (ca.) 152,000      

(March 2019)