Library information desk
Phone: +49 30 266424141
Fax: +49 30 266424199
E-Mail: auskunft.kb[at]smb.spk-berlin.de

Scope and holdings

Collection areas: international costume and fashion history, dance, theatre, cultural history.

• Holdings statistics: 40,500 volumes (as of December 2010), extensive collections of illustrations and photographs.
• Historical book collections: approx. 13,000 volumes.
• See detailed description in ‘Handbuch der historischen Buchbestände in Deutschland, Österreich und Europa’ (online edition).

Use

• User Guidelines of the Kunstbibliothek.
• Terms of Use [Download PDF] of the Kunstbibliothek.
• Reference library, study room with 40 desks, orders available at issue desk in 30 to 45 minutes.
• Rare books: Rare books and manuscripts are usually only available one day after ordering.
• Inter-library loans: International Standard Identifier for Libraries and Related Organisations. (ISIL): B 11, loan region BER = Berlin and Brandenburg only; transfer of paper media only.

Technical equipment

• Colour and black-and-white photocopiers
• microfiche reader
• photographic reproductions to order. 

Catalogues

Electronic catalogues: 

• OPAC of the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin
• database information system
• periodicals database
• Artdiscovery.net

Traditional catalogues:

• Alphabetical card catalogue (all items acquired before 1994 systematized according to the ‘Prussian Instructions’, a historical cataloguing system).

Inventory catalogue:

• Inventory catalogue of the Lipperheide Costume Library, revised by E. Nienholdt and G. Wagner-Neumann, Berlin 1965, 2 vols.