The Abbey Library is not only Switzerland’s oldest library, containing a unique collection of books and manuscripts, but also a public lending library.
The library owns some 170,000 books and other media. Books printed after 1900 can be borrowed, whereas the other, older volumes can only be used in the Reading Room.
Manuscripts and incunabula can only be viewed in the Reading Room in exceptional cases. To cater for scholars and researchers who are interested in these documents, we are in the process of digitising the manuscripts. They can be viewed on the Internet website www.cesg.unifr.ch.
The Abbey Library is a member of the association BibliOpass. If you hold a valid library user’s card issued by one of the 600 libraries belonging to the association, you can borrow books from the Abbey Library. We will be pleased to issue a library user’s card free of charge to anyone residing in Switzerland who does not yet possess one.
Abbey Library of St. Gall, Klosterhof 6D, P.O. Box 9004, St. Gallen, CH
Phone: +41 71 227 34 16
Fax: +41 71 227 34 18
E-mail: stibi@stibi.ch
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Klosterhof 6D, P.O. Box 9004 ,St. Gallen, CH
http://www.stibi.ch/en-us/library/lendinglibraryreadingroom.aspx