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{{Short description|Library in Rotterdam, the Netherlands}}
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[[File:1963-BHHk.jpg|thumb|Reading room in the 1960s]]The '''Hector Hodler Library''' is one of the largest [[Esperanto library|Esperanto libraries]],<ref>{{cite web |title=The Hector Hodler Library |url=https://www.esperantic.org/en/research/research-tools/the-hector-hodler-library/ |website=Esperantic Studies Foundation |access-date=23 July 2025}}</ref> with approximately 30,000 books in addition to periodicals, manuscripts, photos, music, and other collections.  It occupies three rooms in the central office of the [[Universal Esperanto Association]] (UEA) in [[Rotterdam]], [[Netherlands]].

[[File:2006-bhh.JPG|thumb|Library in 2006]]
The Swiss Esperanto Society opened the library in Switzerland in 1908.  In 1912, the library came into the possession of [[Hector Hodler]], the founder of UEA, and after Hodler's death in 1920 the library remained under the management of UEA in Switzerland. In 1947, the library was renamed the Hector Hodler Library, and when UEA headquarters relocated to Rotterdam, the library was moved there in 1960.

By 2004, the library held over 15,000 volumes.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2004-01-31 |title=Esperanto: Wants to be everyone's second language |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-ottawa-citizen-esperanto-wants-to-b/140035243/ |access-date=2024-02-01 |work=The Ottawa Citizen |pages=18 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>

Other major collections of Esperanto books are at the International Esperanto Museum, the [[Montagu C. Butler Library]], the [[Centre de documentation et d'étude sur la langue internationale|Center for Documentation and Study about the International Language]] in Switzerland, and the German Esperanto Library.

== See also ==
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* [[List of libraries in the Netherlands]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
{{Commons category|Biblioteko Hector Hodler}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120303025825/http://dok.esperantic.org/ced/hodler.htm About the library]

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