GESS Library
GESS Library is a Special Library affiliated to the ETH Library and open to the public.
Holdings
The holdings can be researched using ETH Library's Search Portal (external link).
25,000 freely accessible documents:
- Books, reference works, dictionaries
- Subscription to 180 journals
Infrastructure
- 27 study spaces with Wireless LAN (external link), group workstations for 8 and 4 persons in the basement
- 3 public workstations (personal login required)
- 1 ETH Print Service multifunctional device (scan to email/USB, print from personal device, copy; b/w, colour; with nethz-login)
- 1 photocopier
- Reading corner
Services
- Information: advice, counselling, help with searches
- Customer Service: new registrations, renewing your library user, cardfees, reminders
Archives of Contemporary History
The Archives of Contemporary History (external link) are a special location of GESS Library.
The collections of the archives are not available for borrowing and therefore cannot be ordered online, with the exception of requests for copies. For the use of the archive materials in the reading room please contact:
Archives of Contemporary History
ETH Zurich
Hirschengraben 62
8092 Zurich
+41 44 632 40 03
+41 44 632 13 92 (Fax)
afz@history.gess.ethz.ch
Opening hours
Mon–Fri 9.00–17.00
