Subject Holdings

Subjects Covered by the Campus Nord Branch Library

The library branch covers the following subjects:

• Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences

Focus areas of the collection: Agricultural Economics (Economic and Social Sciences of Agriculture), Crop and Horticultural Sciences, Livestock Sciences, Agroecology, and Nutrition.

• English/American Studies

Main areas of the collection: Language, Literature and Culture of Great Britain, Ireland, the USA and Canada, as well as Literature on General Linguistics and Literary Studies.

• Life Sciences

Main areas of the collection: Biophysics, Botany, Didactics of Biology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Neurobiology and Behavioural Biology, Theoretical Biology, Zoology and Systems Biology.

• Sport Sciences

Main areas of the collection: Sports Pedagogy and Philosophy of Sport, Didactics and Methodology of Physical Education, Psychology of Sport and Sociology of Sport, Sports Medicine, and Training and Exercise Science.

Detailed information can be found on the linked subject pages. If you have any questions about the individual subject areas, please contact the subject librarians. Acquisition requests can be submitted through the linked form. 

Information on the Shelving of the Library‘s Holdings

The holdings are shelved according to the Regensburg Classification System. Part of the holdings in the field of English and American Studies are still arranged according to our own in-house classification system.

Items that are part of a Course Reserve Collection can be found on the ground floor of the Campus Nord Branch Library, in the corridor to room 0.42.

Special Collections

In addition to the old stock of the Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences and the former Zoological Institute, our collection also includes special collections from the old stock of Sports Science.

The special collections of Karl Wassmannsdorff (*24 April 1821 in Berlin, † 6 August 1906 in Heidelberg)
 

 Victoria Marquardt

The sports historian and sports educator Karl Wassmannsdorff (1821-1906) received his doctorate from the University of Jena in 1863. Thanks to his memorandum on the role of gymnastics, the gymnastics teacher training institute was founded in Karlsruhe in 1869. Karl Wassmannsdorff became a member of the board of the German Gymnastics Association in 1864 and was awarded the Knight's Cross First Class by the Grand Duke of Baden for his services. He translated and researched a large number of sports history writings from the Middle Ages onwards, which is why he is considered the forefather of German sports historiography.

A list of the fully catalogued collections is available in the Primus digital catalogue. They can be ordered for use on site at the library branch.

Scope: about 530 volumes

Other Special Collections

The old sports science collection contains other special collections that are currently being catalogued and processed, including the special collections of sports educator Hermann Otto Kluge (born 3 May 1813 in Berlin, †19 December 1882 in Berlin) and sports educator Gebhard Eckler (*28 August 1932 in Eisleben, †25 June 1907 in Berlin).

Further information on the historical collections at the Humboldt University Library can be found on the historical collections website.

Media from the historical collections are stored in closed stacks and must be ordered to be used. Information on ordering and using these collections can be found under Borrowing and Returning.