The library of the Institute was organized in the year 1954, based on the remaining collection of the library of the Anthropological Laboratory in Warsaw and the Varsovian Science Society, latter in 1920, transformed to the Institute of Anthropological Sciences.
The library collection contains publications from the field of anthropology, ethnography, genetics and related sciences from the range of human biology.
The library collection at the end of 2008 contained 10,234 volumes of compact printed material and 8,204 volumes of printed material.
Those are publications from the fields of anthropology, ethnography, genetics and related sciences from the range of human biology.
Collected Periodicals:
International journals:
Annals of Human Biology /Great Britain/
Current Anthropology /USA/
Journal of Biosocial Science /Great Britain/
Anthropology Today / Great Britain/
Biometrie Humaine et Anthropologie /France/
Ethnology /USA/
Bulletin of the National Science Museum. Ser. D: Anthropology /Japan/
Mitteilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft /Austria/
Polish journals:
Kosmos
Przeglad Antropologiczny (presently it is named: Anthropological Review)
Studia Socjologiczne
Studia Demograficzne
Swiat Nauki
Wychowanie Fizyczne i Sport