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Leipzig: Saturday 8 November 2025

The museum reading room in Leipzig will be closed on Saturday, 8 November. The exhibitions of the German Museum of Books and Writing will open from 10:00 to 18:00.

Frankfurt am Main: 18 November 2025

Tuesday 18 November 2025: The reading rooms of the German National Library in Frankfurt am Main will open at 13:00 due to a staff assembly. The exhibitions of the German Exile Archive 1933–1945 will be open from 9:00 to 21:30.

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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