ICH Library
Telephone: 01 200 31 32
Email: Knjiznica@inz.si
Opening hours: Wednesday beetween 9.00 AM and 1. PM (mandatory preorder by email or telephone)
We keep part of the library material at an external location and order it at most once a month. We do not order material from an external location during the summer months (July and August).
Thank you for your understanding.
The library keeps a basic collection consisting of more than 20,000 books on contemporary Slovenian and global history, as well as around 200 magazine titles, including all of the most important newspapers since Bleiweis’s Kmetijske and rokodelske novice newspaper to cultural and professional magazines as well as daily newspapers, whose volumes are kept in a bound format. The so-called D-collection represents a special feature of our library, and access to it was initially restricted due to the anti-communist nature of many of the books. This collection contains more than 15,000 books that the library acquired in the first years after World War II. It is not entirely clear how the collection made its way to the Institute, but it was most probably created by selecting Nazi books in the regional branches of the Federal Collection Centre. Roughly, the D-collection can be divided into three parts: German books and periodicals, Italian books, and Allied literature from the 1940s. On this basis, it can be argued that with its collection of materials, our library represents the most important historiographic collection about the history of the 20th century in Slovenia.
