Library
The HMTMH University Library comprises
- the Central Library, including music education and Judaica (Leisewitzstraße 39)
- the Library of the Research Centre for Music and Gender (Seelhorststraße 3) and
- the Library in the Kurt Schwitters Forum (Expo Plaza 12)
Once activated, students can simply use the HMTMH card as their library card. Registering online in advance speeds up the process. Afterwards, please come to the circulation desk of the Library in person and present your HMTMH card and your identity card (alternatively: HMTMH card + passport + registration confirmation/residence permit).
- Online registration for the Central Library
- Online registration for the Library in the Kurt Schwitters Forum
The HMTMH library is part of the Hanover Online Library System (HOBSY). If you are already registered at another library in the network, you are welcome to come directly to the circulation desk with your HOBSY user card.
After successful registration, a library account will be created for you in HOBSY.
Would you like more detailed information on a specific topic? Then the ‘A-Z’ of the university library is a good first source of information! You are also welcome to contact the library team directly (see contact information).
News about the Central Library in german language can be found in the HMTMH-Bibl-Blog.
The Library of the HMTMH
The Library of the HMTMH, with its collection of about 300,000 items (scores, books, recordings etc.), is one of the largest of all the Universities of Music. The subjects covered range from Historic and Systematic Musicology to Music Education to Ethnomusicology. Of particular interest are the "Andor Izsák Collection" Library at the European Centre for Jewish Music which includes, for example, the vast research library of the music ethnologist Dr Edith Gerson-Kiwi (1908–1992), and the collection of German-language music teaching books since 1750. In the fields of Media and Communication Sciences, the HMTMH and Hochschule Hanover (University of Applied Sciences and Arts) have a joint library at the Kurt Schwitters Forum.
Online catalogue
- Online catalogue
- Informations on Hanover Online Library System HOBSY
News
- see german site
Licensed databases and other Information ressources
- A choice of licensed databases and other Information ressources
- Access to the Database Infosystem (Datenbank-Infosystem DBIS)
- Access to the Library of electronic journals (Elektronischen Zeitschriftenbibliothek EZB)
- Access to the Directory of open access journals (DOAJ)
Quality Control: The journal must exercise peer-review or editorial quality control to be included.
Contact
Library management
Phone: 0511 3100-294
Dr. Katharina Talkner
Central Library
Phone: 0511 3100-279/
bibliothek@hmtm-hannover.de
Library in the Kurt-Schwitters-Forum
Phone: 0511 9296-2640
ausleihe@ijk.hmtm-hannover.de
Library of the Research Centre for Music and Gender (fmg)
Phone: 0511 3100-7334
fmg@hmtm-hannover.de
Last modified: 2025-09-02
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