With its comprehensive stock of research literature, unprinted, printed and digitised sources, the library of the department BBF | Library for the History of Education offers an excellent research environment for researchers interested in (educational) history.

The archive of the BBF | Reseach Library for the History of Education at DIPF collects, preserves and indexes archival material of significance to educational history.

The Educational Research Library in Frankfurt is the institute’s own library; it is responsible for providing employees in both Berlin and Frankfurt with the scientific literature and information they need. The Library is one of the major libraries with a special focus in Germany and is thus open to the public. For more than 60 years, the FFB has been an elementary part of the library landscape in the Rhine-Main region, thus contributing to guaranteed free access to scientific information in the fields of educational research and educational science for scientists and practitioners as well as anyone with a special interest in the field.