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Leipzig: 9 December 2025

Tuesday 9 December 2025: The reading rooms of the German National Library in Leipzig will open at 13:00 due to a staff assembly.
The exhibitions of the German Museum of Books and Writing will open from 10:00 to 18:00.

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Information about format changes

Formats are modified in a fixed chronological sequence.

We announce the go-live of these modifications three months beforehand and keep you informed in the Metadata service Wiki and via the Metadata service newsletter.

If you are only interested in format changes concerning the authority data in the Integrated Authority File (GND), we recommend the GND-Wiki, for the Linked Data Service (LDS) the LDS-Wiki.

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