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Leipzig: Wednesday 28 May 2025

The reading rooms of the German National Library in Leipzig will open at 13:00 on Wednesday 28 May due to a staff assembly. The exhibitions of the German Museum of Books and Writing will open from 10:00 to 18:00.

Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB)

  • Launched: Online since 2012
  • Objective: Free and easy access to cultural objects in digital format, i.e. to millions of books, archive materials, images, sculptures, musical works and other sound documents, films and music scores.
  • Role of the German National Library: The German National Library in Frankfurt am Main is in charge of the technology and service areas, with the service point and data management department serving as points of contact for cultural heritage and educational organisations which would like to contribute their own digital holdings to the German Digital Library.
  • Additional partners: Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (home of the administrative office), FIZ KarlsruheLeibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure (technical operator) and fifteen other prestigious German cultural institutions (competence network)
  • More about the DDB

Last changes: 26.10.2021

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