The Research Library for Reformation Studies is a place of academic exchange. Together with various alternating cooperation partners, it organises scientific events in a range of formats. Cooperation partners include, for example, the Historical Commission for Saxony-Anhalt, the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Repertorium Academicum Germanicum. Conferences and symposia, working discussions and workshops, theme days and individual lectures, young talent academies and courses are organised.
One particular focus for the Research Library for Reformation Studies is the promotion of research on the Reformation and its further development in Lutheran confessional formation and Lutheran Orthodoxy from a Wittenberg perspective. For this reason, it organises conferences on the history of the Reformation and, since 2019, working discussions on Lutheran Orthodoxy. These look at current problems in research, sources, methodological questions and important players in Wittenberg theology as well as the change in these in the later 16th to 18th centuries.
The Research Library for Reformation Studies is also dedicated to researching the Protestant Seminary for Preachers and its relations with the Prussian Church Union and the Evangelical Church of the Union. Due to the transition of sovereignty of Wittenberg from Saxony to Prussia as a result of the Congress of Vienna and, consequentially, the special structure of its holdings, the Research Library for Reformation Studies is at the same time a place of remembrance and tradition for the history of a Lutheranism influenced by the Electorate of Saxony and unionist church politics.