We are happy to welcome you on the website of our library.

The library of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences is a reference library offering its services mainly to the scientists of the institute. It can however also be used by interested visitors.

Members of the institute can use the library during opening hours of the institute, 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. Office hours and visiting hours for external users are

            monday - thursday 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
            friday 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

All librarians and trainees have one common goal - to guarantee one of the world's best mathematics libraries.

Would you like to

• get more information on using the library?
• get information on the collection?
• inform about the vocational training to be a "Specialist in media and information services specializing in librarianship"?
• learn about some of the features that we use for catalogue enrichment or that just make our everyday work a little easier?

If you have any questions, ideas etc. please do not hesitate to write us an email.

Our trainee positions for 2012 are already filled, for 2013 we offer no trainee positions.

You can find more information on the training for "Specialist in media and information services specializing in librarianship" on our training page.