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State Hall

Starting August 1, 2025, the State Hall will open at 9 a.m.

Attention

Annual maintenance work will take place again this summer, which is why the reading rooms at the Heldenplatz location and in all collections will be closed from Friday, July 25, to Tuesday, August 5, 2025.

Due to the shutdown of the ordering system, no media orders can be accepted from Thursday, July 24, 2025, 4 p.m. to Tuesday, August 5, 2025, 4 p.m. The regular opening hours will then apply again from Wednesday, August 6, 2025.

Ariadne – the women- and gender-specific knowledge portal

Bücherstapel mit Ariadne-Steckzettel

Since 1992, Ariadne's thread has been leading users reliably through the labyrinth of material relating to women, feminism and gender studies, across all collections of the Austrian National Library.

  • We collect current research literature on women’s and gender studies and document new acquisitions.
  • We annotate articles in journals and collected works with feminist subject indexing, so that they can be easily found in the Ariadne Special Collection in the QuickSearch catalogue.
  • We identify the relevant sources in the Austrian National Library's historic holdings, process them and make them accessible: gender-related history can be viewed on the web portal about Historic Women’s Movements and its sources are available online, while the online exhibition Women use your vote! records the struggle for women's right to vote.
  • We inform you via the Ariadne Newsletter, published every two months, about our activities and services, current events, new additions to the collection, and a feminist figure from history in focus. (Thank you for understanding that our newsletter is available in German only.)
  • We answer questions and carry out research for you. Send us your question via e-mail at ariadne[at]onb.ac.at.
A look behind the scenes

Moving images from the daily work of the Ariadne team

Bücherstapel in einem Ausschnitt aus dem Video
The red thread

How to find gender-specific literature and sources

Ariadne's thread

Thank you for understanding that our blog posts are available in German only.

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