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Tuesday, 17 June 2025

The German National Library will be closed at both locations due to a staff meeting. The exhibitions of the German Museum of Books and Writing in Leipzig will open from 10:00 to 18:00. The exhibitions of the German Exile Archive 1933-1945 in Frankfurt will be closed.

Thursday, 19 June 2025

Thursday, 19 June 2025: The German National Library in Frankfurt am Main will be closed.

Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN)

  • Launched: Founded in 1917, the collaboration has been ongoing since the 1980s
  • Objective: Create an independent platform for standardisation in Germany and globally.
  • Role of the German National Library: Member of some working groups and one of the sponsors of the Standardisation Committee for Information and Documentation (NID). We also participate in the working groups for quality measures for national libraries and for Universal Coded Character Set run by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
  • https://www.din.de/de/mitwirken/normenausschuesse/nid
  • https://www.din.de/de/mitwirken/normenausschuesse/nia

Last changes: 23.04.2021

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