Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie

During the Third Reich, Germany's Central Security Agency (RSHA) in Berlin had a central library which served all the agency's departments as well as numerous departmental libraries. In addition to the Legal Library and the Staff Library, located on...

Will Google, Yahoo and Microsoft become the only avenues for accessing the world of knowledge in the year 2010? The author of this article makes the case for concerted action on the part of libraries which would lead to the creation of dependable,...

In Germany there are currently only a handful of university publishing houses. In Anglo-American countries, by contrast, the number of prominent university presses has been growing over many years. This article traces the various historical...

The database "Complete Catalogue of Incunabula" (Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke) follows the tradition of the printed edition, both in content and in layout. Its editorial interface will enable the preparation of further volumes and its user...

The database of historical book covers and bindings is a joint project of the State Library of Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage, the Wurttemberg State Library in Stuttgart, The Duke August Library in Wolfenbuttel, and - since February 2004, the...

Descriptive records of provenance have become significant for library practice in Germany for two reasons. Firstly, scholars have started to regard the individual copy as an artefact whose specific features and condition can supply clues to its...

The planning, the framework and the initiatives involved in developing the Hand Press Book Database (HPB), which records early European printings up to about 1830, has been described and discussed in Germany since it began. In this update, the...

Descriptive records of provenance have become significant for library practice in Germany for two reasons. Firstly, scholars have started to regard the individual copy as an artefact whose specific features and condition can supply clues to its...

The currently available indexes and catalogues of German-language printed matter from the 18th century have proven to be extremely unsatisfactory - with exception of the cataloging done by the »Working Group for the Collection of German Printed...

With catalog records for approximately 200,000 of the anticipated 265,000 or more titles, the »Bibliography of Books Printed in German-Speaking Countries from 1601 to 1700 (VD17)« - a project supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)...

In the past academic libraries in Germany have been successfully undertaking joint endeavors toward a social and political definition of the knowledge society by cooperatively developing ways to provide information and increasing the digital forms...