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11 September 2025

Thursday, 11 September 2025: The German National Library will not open until 15:00 due to a staff meeting at both locations. The exhibitions are open during regular opening hours.

Metadata service newsletter

Are you interested in receiving regular information about the latest developments and activities carried out by our metadata services and format changes? If so, you are welcome to subscribe to the newsletter here:

Subscribe to the metadata service newsletter

Previous issues are available at our newsletter archive.

Mailing lists

Do you use our read-only interfaces SRU or OAI? Do you regularly receive metadata from the German National Library (DNB), the Integrated Authority File (GND) or the German Union Catalogue of Serials (ZDB)? Subscribe to the corresponding mailing list to make sure you always have the latest, most important information about changes, new developments, waiting times or disruptions.

Metadata supply and read-only interfaces

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German Union Catalogue of Serials (ZDB)

Information about format changes

We keep you informed of current changes in the metadata services offered by the German National Library via the Metadata service newsletter and on our page Metadataservice Info. We announce these modifications three months beforehand.

Would you like to stay informed about changes well ahead of time? Subscribe to our metadata service newsletter.

Last changes: 11.08.2025
Short-URL: https://www.dnb.de/metadatanews
Contact: metadatendienste@dnb.de

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