As both a general and academic library, the ZHB Sempacherstrasse is specially geared toward the needs of a wider audience. The library offers a varied range of literature concerning training and careers, leisure and entertainment, including specialized, non-fiction and light fiction books, which is constantly updated and available to borrow.
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The ZHB Sempacherstrasse acquires over 13,000 new additions every year.
More than 80,000 items are directly accessible to borrow from the open stacks, covering current non-fiction and specialist literature from various fields of knowledge, materials for degree programs and continuing education, an appealing range of recent fiction and audiobooks.
There is also a reference collection in the reading room, for an introduction to a variety of subjects.
Newspapers and journals
The ZHB Sempacherstrasse has a well-chosen selection of Swiss and foreign daily and weekly newspapers as well as a wide range of (specialist) journals.
The ZHB stocks and archives local and cantonal newspapers and publications as comprehensively as possible. By digitizing and microfilming older Lucerne newspapers we can offer you unlimited access going way back through history: Luzerner Tagblatt (1852–1991) and Vaterland (1833–1963) are available to browse at two special workspaces in the basement at Sempacherstrasse, where you can also view (and print) newspapers on microfilm, such as Luzerner Neueste Nachrichten and Luzerner Landzeitungen (PDF).