 During the 1960s, a student village with 27 buildings was constructed near Schlachtensee lake serving as housing opportunities for students.With an inventory of 8.5 million volumes and over 25,000 journals distributed in the central university library (UB) and 49 specialized libraries of the institutes, the library system of the FU is the biggest in Germany.Items published since 1990 are fully digitalized and accessible through an OPAC.