From October 2023 to October 2024, construction work will take place in the Leipzig building. This will impact user services, e.g. by making it necessary to close some of the reading rooms.
Our popular transparent library bag, notebooks, T-shirts, key rings, pencil cases and much more – you will find plenty of useful and attractive merchandising articles in the German National Library's online shop. The shop is also the place to go if you want to buy our publications, exhibition catalogues and postcards.Come and visit us – we hope you will have fun browsing!
How can you use controlled vocabulary to find literature and data? What are authority data, and what role do they play in the description of objects such as publications, research data or collection items? In this publication, we explain how you can use authority data to improve your search results when conducting literary and data searches. It focuses first and foremost on the authority data in the Integrated Authority File (GND), the centrally controlled vocabulary for culture and research in the German-speaking countries.
Visual arts for listeners: "AugenRausch", the new podcast by the German Museum of Books and Writing at the German National Library, was launched on 16 March 2024. The podcast focuses on images as a source of knowledge: comics, manga, picture stories, illustrations, infographics, icons – the world is full of image-based knowledge. The first episode introduces two of the best-known representatives of the comic and illustrator scene, Armin Abmeier and Rotraut Susanne Berner. More episodes are planned.
The German National Library collects national cultural heritage for posterity. As an archival library, we fulfil a sustainable mandate in the most authentic sense. Moreover, we are increasingly orienting our goals, methods and services on greater sustainability – both environmental, economic and social. Find out more about our contribution and targets.
The German National Library supports academic research in the field of Digital Humanities and is therefore advertising a call for proposals for this year‘s DH Call and DH Fellowships. The DH Call is aimed at researchers who need access to our collections for their projects. Our DH Fellowships offer the opportunity to address and work on research questions relating to our catalog data for a period of three to six months.
This is us! 75 years of Basic Law. A publication history
Foyer presentation and virtual exhibition at the German National Library’s German Museum of Books and Writing
From 9 May to 17 November 2024
Virtual exhibition starting on May 1st
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