About the library

Subjects of Collection

• high energy physics and particle physics
• accelerator and detector technology
• quantum field theory
• related fields like

  computer science

  technical sciences

  nuclear physics

  mathematics and general physics

Acquisition of new literature

Please send your proposal
using the following form interfaces for books or journals
or as a formless message or as a formal ordering request (BA) to the library

Branch libraries

• Cryogenics library (at the DESY KRYO Group, Building 55)
• HASYLAB library (at the Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Building 25F)
• Library at DESY Zeuthen (2L36)

Collections of the DESY central library (31.12.2004)

• 29 400 books
• 29 700 bound volumes of periodicals/journals
• 330 subscribed periodicals/journals
• over 120 000 reports and preprints, including theses

Library hours and access

Opening hours		Circulation desk service Phone: 040/8998 4630
Daily	8:00 A.M. - 10:00 P.M.	Monday - Thursday Friday	8:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M. 8:00 A.M. - 2:00 P.M.

Circulation policies

Books can be borrowed for two weeks,
preprints or reports for one week.

Reference books (yellow signature), periodicals and new accquisitions
are not for loan

For checking out a book, a self-checkout terminal is available.
To check out a preprint or report, fill in a loan slip available at the desk.

Place the loan slip in the circulation box near the circulation desk.

Returned material should be dropped into the box for returned literature near the desk

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Library, Mar 2008.