Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek
open until closed until
Berliner Stadtbibliothek
open until closed until

Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek
Blücherplatz 1, 10961 Berlin

open until closed until
  • Mon – Fri 10am – 9pm
  • Sat 10am – 7pm
  • Sun 11am – 5pm
Mon – Fri
10am – 9pm
Sat
10am – 7pm
Sun
11am – 5pm

Children's and Youth Library

  • Mon – Fri 1pm – 7pm
  • Sat 10am – 7pm
  • Sun 11am – 5pm
Mon – Fri
1pm – 7pm
Sat
10am – 7pm
Sun
11am – 5pm

Berliner Stadtbibliothek
Breite Straße 30-36, 10178 Berlin

open until closed until
  • Mon – Fri 10am – 9pm
  • Sat 10am – 7pm
Mon – Fri
10am – 9pm
Sat
10am – 7pm

Berlin Collections

  • Mon – Sat 10am – 7pm
Mon – Fri
10am – 7pm
Sat
10am – 7pm

The ZLB remains closed on public holidays. There is no on-site library consultation on Sundays.

Branches
Exterior view of AGB at night

©ZLB | Foto: Vincent Mosch

America Memorial Library

All the facts at a glance: Learn more about the ZLB's specialist collections and service offers at the America Memorial Library, and about what you can expect to find in Berlin-Kreuzberg.

Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek (AGB)

Mondays – Fridays 10 a.m – 9 p.m. 
(Service hours 10 a.m – 8 p.m.)
Saturdays 10 a.m – 7 p.m.
(Service hours 10 a.m – 7 p.m.)
Sundays 11 a.m – 5 p.m. 

Children's and Youth Library
Mondays – Fridays 1 p.m. – 7 p.m. 
Saturdays 11 a.m – 5 p.m.

Blücherplatz 1
10961 Berlin-Kreuzberg
Phone +49 30 90226-401

Bus: M41 | 248

U: Hallesches Tor | Mehringdamm

At the Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek in Kreuzberg, you will find specialist collections related to the humanities and the fine arts, fiction, films, music and the "Artothek". It is also home to the Children's and Youth Library with its learning centre.

Our offers at this branch

  • Elderly man in the Artothek in the AGB has pulled out the pull-out shelf and is looking at the artworks
    Artothek / works of art you can borrow

    You can borrow original artworks from us for a while

    ©ZLB | Foto: Moritz Haase

  • Two elderly people look into a magazine compartment in the lounge of the AGB
    Newspapers and magazines in the lounge

    Read newspapers and magazines in the lounge

    ©ZLB | Foto: Moritz Haase

  • Young man with glasses stands in front of shelf in music library and holds open music book in hand
    Borrow sheet music

    Borrowing sheet music

    ©ZLB | Foto: Moritz Haase

  • Woman stands with CDs in her hands in front of CD shelf in library and wants to borrow CDs
    Music CDs / listening to music / borrowing music

    Listen to and borrow music

    ©ZLB | Foto: Moritz Haase

  • Elderly gentleman grabs DVD from the shelf of the cinematheque
    Cinematheque

    Borrow films

    ©ZLB | Foto: Moritz Haase

  • Mother with three children and a book on her lap in the children's and youth library
    Children's and Youth Library with Learning Centre

    Our Children's and Youth Library

    ©ZLB | Foto: Moritz Haase

  • Elderly couple sitting in the AGB coffee shop drinking an espresso and eating a biscuit
    Café

    Take a break at the AGB's café

    ©ZLB | Foto: Moritz Haase

  • Young woman puts a book in a photocopier
    Copy and print

    Copying and printing at the AGB

     ©Adobe Stock | Foto: WavebreakmediaMicro

  • Man has his hands on keyboard and mouse while looking at computer screen with open database Beck Online
    Databases

    Using the library's databases for research

     

    ©ZLB

Workstations. Computers. Wi-Fi

Besides reading desks and computers for catalogue research, the ZLB offers you various study spaces with technical equipment for your use. The use of this equipment is free of charge; you may need a library card to use some of this equipment. In the interest of all users, we ask you to please ensure that you do not damage this equipment in any way.

The Federal State of Berlin public library regulations and fees and charges policy (BÖBB) apply

Wi-Fi

You can go online with your own laptop at the ZLB via Wi-Fi hotspots (wireless local area network hotspots). Access is free of charge and unlimited


The computer workstations (Windows 10) offer:

  • Internet (browsers: Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge)
  • Microsoft Office 2016
  • LibreOffice (formerly Open Office)
  • Paint.NET (image editing software)
  • PDF creation
  • USB port for saving your work
  • Online databases
  • An external disk drive, which you can borrow from the service desk for use in the library on that day.

The computers may be used by anyone with a valid library card aged fourteen and over. Each individual session per computer is limited to one hour.

Central printing is possible from the computer workstations.

You should know how to use the usual applications if you want to use the computer workstations.

At the America Memorial Library (AGB), you can watch films in various formats and with different region codes in special viewing booths, and use our VHS digitisation booth.

The Berlin Public Library (BStB) also has a viewing booth.

Please note that, according to our regulations, all film media must always be borrowed before they can be watched - even if you watch them on the library premises

Listening facilities are available in the America Memorial Library's music area in the second media booth along the corridor leading to the piano room. You can play CDs, CD-Rs, CD-RWs, audio tapes and records, and digitise them on a USB flash drive.
If you want to listen to DVD audio CDs and SACDs (Super Audio Compact Discs), you can use one of our film viewing booths. You must borrow all media beforehand.

All of the approx. 73,000 records we own are kept at the Berlin Public Library's repository in Breite Strasse in Berlin-Mitte; you can borrow 57,000 of these. Once you have found the respective signature in the music IPA, you can trigger an order in the OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) and borrow or listen to the records that are available for loan on the same day at the Berlin Public Library, or the next days at the America Memorial Library. In the media booths, you can event save music from records onto your own USB flash drive.

At the Berlin Public Library, you will also find a record player in the computer workstation area behind the information desk. You can not only listen to records there but also save data to a USB flash drive.

You will find a screen reader at both ZLB locations. They are suitable for people with limited or very poor eyesight. These places are reserved for users with the respective impairment and may not be used by people without these impairments at any time.