American Reference Center

Boltzmanngasse 16
1090 Vienna
Tel.: (01) 405 30 33
Fax: (01) 406 52 60
e-mail: arc(at)usembassy.at

• Resources
• School Outreach Program
• Public Information and Quick Reference Service
• American Corner Innsbruck

Resources

The ARC holdings include a small reference book collection and a magazine section. Visitors are welcome to research the EbscoHost magazine database, which contains abstracts and articles of U.S. periodicals.

The ARC accepts requests e.g. for biographical information, texts of speeches by U.S. government officials, articles from U.S. magazines and newspapers, addresses of American organizations, URLs, or reports from American think tanks and research institutes.

School Outreach Program

The U.S. Embassy introduced this program to give teachers and students the possibility to meet and talk to diplomats of the U.S. Embassy or the U.S. Missions to the OSCE and United Nations in Vienna.

Visits may be structured to meet curriculum needs, and the discussions are generally conducted in English. The speakers present a short overview of a particular subject relating to American society - e.g. popular culture, the educational system, domestic politics, daily life - as well as issues pertaining to international affairs, or talk more generally about their lives (their jobs, the schools and universities they attended, their hometowns) and then open the floor to discussion and questions.

If you would be interested in taking advantage of this opportunity, please contact the American Reference Center (arc@usembassy.at) for more information and to make arrangements. If possible, we would like to know if there are particular topics your class would like to discuss.
Please see this information sheet to find out about available presentations.

Public Information and Quick Reference Service

For general information about the United States or about Austria, please check the About the U.S. and About Austria sections of the site. If you need quick reference assistance and do not find the information you need on our web pages, you can call the ARC with general information requests Monday - Friday, 8:30-17:00, at (01) 405 30 33.

American Corner Innsbruck

The "American Corner Innsbruck" is an information platform for the public, students, and university staff members interested in American studies and issues related to the United States. The basic idea of the American Corner Innsbruck is the cooperation with people from various disciplines working in the field of American Studies, like history, geography, political science, etc. The American Corner Innsbruck is an integral part of the Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck.

• American Corner Innsbruck website
  • Events at the AC Innsbruck
• Re-Opening of the American Corner, October 20, 2011