The Ilmenau City Library's entire media collection comprises around 56,000 items (as of 2020). This includes a wide variety of genres, a large number of audio books and, of course, lots for the little ones to read and discover.

Books for adults and young people

Our adult and youth book section includes a media stock with a large number of novels. We also offer an extensive collection of non-fiction, specialist books and magazines on a wide range of topics. This stock comprises around 29,500 media (as of 2020) with works from the areas of fiction, manga, specialist books, non-fiction, regional literature, magazines, the daily newspaper "Thüringer Allgemeine" and "Freies Wort", encyclopaedias and reference works, dictionaries and illustrated books.

Children's library

We also have a large stock of around 14,000 (as of 2020) picture books, read-aloud books, comics, novels and non-fiction books for the youngest children.