The university library has a valuable old collection. Its importance lies in the concentration of the geoscientific and mining heritage of monographs, journals, manuscripts, mining specimens (exploration, mine and weather reports) and crack works.

Collection

• approx. 22.000 volumes up to 1850
• oldest book: "Book of Nature" by Conrad Mengenberg (1475) published in Augsburg
• approx. 4.000 manuscripts and spezimina (handwritten study papers and travelogues by students and staff of the Bergakademie from 1770 to approx. 1869 and 1907-1910, which also contain drawings and cracks)
• oldest manuscript from 1437
• 169 bequests, 6 volumes of letters to Werner, mining cracks, historical maps
• coins and medals
  • Werner's coin collection (approx. 400 ancient Greek, approx. 5,800 ancient Roman coins and approx. 910 medieval and modern coins)
  • collection of coins and medals with mining imprints (approx. 1,500 pieces of different provenance)
  • medals of the BHT - Berg- und Hüttenmännischer Tag (1956/57-2000)
• catalogued holdings can be accessed via the catalogue - a large part is available in digitised form

Special reading room on the 2nd floor

• Equipped, among other things with
  • furniture from a professor's room from the old Braunkohle Institute from 1920
  • coin cabinet from the 18th century
  • Werner busts
  • workstations
• only available by prior appointment