From October 2023 expected until the end of 2024 construction work will take place in the Leipzig building. This will impact user services, e.g. by making it necessary to close some of the reading rooms.
On the occasion of the architectural design competition for the fifth extension building, the German National Library will be displaying the competition entries and presenting the prizewinners in an exhibition to take place from 18 September to 1 October 2024.
…in our profile on karriere.bund. You can now find us and other exciting employers in the federal administration on this platform. Browse through interviews, guest articles, interesting facts and news about careers in the public sector at federal level.
The German National Library now collects digital music
published 14.08.2024
License: Punctum, Stefan Hoyer
The German National Library's collection of online publications currently encompasses more than 16 million titles, including e-books, university publications, journals, daily newspapers, sheet music, audio books, digitised works and websites.
And digital music has now been added to the list! The new workflow has been live since June 2024 and the first music audio files have already been successfully imported. The metadata standard DDEX ERN 4.3 is used for deposits.
4 million digitised tables of contents consisting of 9 million pages are now available through our catalogue and metadata services. They are accessed more than 16,000 times a day.
All tables of contents can be searched using the fulltext search function; they make our media collection more visible and easier to access. They are also used in automated subject cataloguing processes.
Work on digitising the tables of contents is still ongoing. By the end of 2024, there will be 5 million freely accessible tables of contents available for use.
The German Exile Archive mourns the loss of Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer
published 15.07.2024
Foto: DNB/Sylvia Asmus
The famous US-American sex therapist died on 12 July 2024 at her home in New York City at the age of 96.
Her life story was part of the exhibition “Child emigration from Frankfurt” in 2021. She generously supported the Exile Archive with information, interviews and material.
We are grateful for the encounters with this impressive personality and mourn this great loss.
Frank Scholze, Director General of the German National Library, has been confirmed in his position as Chair of the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL). The elections to the Executive Committee took place at the 38th CENL Annual General Meeting at the National Library of Poland in Warsaw. Frank Scholze has chaired CENL since 2021. Since then, the CENL Secretariat has also been located in the German National Library.
Department of User Services and Collection Management has a new head
published 01.07.2024
Photo: Philipp Reichelt
Susanne Theile became Head of the Department of User Services and Collection Management on 1 July 2024. The 48-year-old architectural engineering graduate and librarian succeeds Jörg Räuber, who retired at the end of January 2024 after more than 49 years of successful work for the DNB. Along with her role as department head, her work mainly focuses on the strategic development and management of the cross-location department and the development and implementation of strategies, services and tools in the areas of storage logistics, digital cultural education, automation and digitisation. From 2014 on, Susanne Theile was the Director of the "Georgius Agricola" University Library at TU Bergakademie Freiberg. Besides being in charge of the library, she also planned and designed its new building.
Open Heritage Site Day®
On 8 September 2024, we will be offering exciting insights into the German National Library as befits this year's motto "True signs. Contemporary witness of history".
This is us! 75 years of Basic Law. A publication history
Foyer presentation and virtual exhibition at the German National Library’s German Museum of Books and Writing in Leipzig
From 9 May to 17 November 2024 Virtual exhibition starting on May 1st
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