Business and Economics Library

Business and Economics Library - Von-Melle-Park 5

The Business and Economics Library provides information resources for the departments Social Economy, Economics, Hamburg Center for Health Economics, Centre for Globalisation and Governance  and Business Adminsitration.

Floor plan of the Business and Economics Library

The library offers extensive collections of books and journals and more than 700 workspaces for individual and group study. The floorplan helps you to  find your way in the library. (Floor plan PDF)

Lockers in the foyer of the Business and Economics Library

To get a key card for a locker present your library card at the circulation desk. You may bring coats, study equipment and water (in transparent bottles) into the library. Please store everything else in your locker.

Ask the team at the circulation desk

At the circulation desk you get information about research and loan options and about all the services on offer in the Business and Ecoomics Library.

Collections

The Business and Economics Library has a collection of approx. 274.000 books and keeps 265 current print journals. The collection includes materials from the subjects of business administration, economics, information systems, law, sociology, political science, and psychology.

You can search the library’s complete collection via the Campus Catalogue or beluga.

Loan options

Second largest library with loan options on campus

The Business and Economics Library is the second largest library with loan options on campus surpassed only by the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, Carl von Ossietzky (Stabi).

Loan options

Need a long loan period? Choose a book from our textbook collection

We provide large numbers of books in our textbook collection. You can borrow books for 4 weeks and renew the loan online up to three times as long as nobody places a hold on the book.

loan options textbooks

Individual workspaces

The library offers more than 441 individual workspaces and 28 research computers.

All workspaces are equipped with sockets and network connections. The library is part of the campus-wide wirelss network (eduroam), which gives students, faculty, and staff network access from all over campus.

Groups study area

The Business and Economics Library offers group study workspaces for 262 people. In the group study areas you can move tables and chairs around to fit your needs. Make yourself comfortable.

Discussion rooms (No. 3 - 6 with touchscreens)

The library offers 6 discussion rooms. Room No. 3, 4 5 and 6 are fitted with touchscreens which allow you to work collaboratively on documents or presentations. Students of the Faculty Business, Economics and Social Sciences and the Faculty Business Administration can reserve the rooms online.

Lounge

The lounge at the entrance is a popular meeting place. Feel free to use it as a workspace or to take some time out from your studies. Comfortable chairs and daily newspapers invite you to chill.