Library

The library stock features specialization in subjects as the volumes collected here are foremost related to the themes of prehistory and history of the Baltic Sea region, methodology of historical and archaeological research, history and cultural heritage of the regions of Prussia, East Prussia and Žemaitija, underwater cultural heritage, and cultural interactions in the Baltic Sea region.

The library stock is resupplied on a regular basis due to the efforts of Lithuanian and foreign partners and sponsors of the library of Klaipėda University, the Institute of Baltic Region History and Archaeology, and the individual members of the staff of the Institute.

The Library of Institute of Baltic Region History and Archaeology holds the following collections:

• The book collection of the historian Professor Leonas Mulevičius (1927–1993);
• The book collection of the numasmatist Stasys Janušonis (1937–1983) (acquired with funding from Klaipėda University);
• The book collection of the historian Dr Rimantas Jasas (1929–2002) (acquired with funding from the Open Society Fund Lithuania);
• The book collection of the archaeologist Professor Dr habil. Vytautas Kazakevičius (1951–2005) (donated by his widow, Danutė Kazakevičienė, in 2006);
• The book collection of the former Lithuanian Embassy in Paris (transferred to the Institute’s library by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania in 2010);
• The archival and printed collection of the Chicago Lithuanian Evangelical Lutheran Parish Tėviškė (transferred to the Institute in 2011);
• The book and manuscript collection of the American Lithuanian historian Dr Algirdas Martynas Budreckis (1937–2000) (donated by his widow in 2013);
• The book collection of Latvian archaeologists Dr Vladislavs Urtāns (1921–1989) (donated by his son, Juris Urtāns, in 2015) and Juris Urtāns;
• The book collection and related material of the legal historian Professor Dr Dietmar Willoweit (1936–2023) (donated by his widow, Hildegard Willoweit, in 2024).