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.
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.
Restitution to the heirs of Heinrich Glanz
published 25.06.2024
Photo: DNB
In June 2024, the German National Library was able to return a book belonging to Viennese publisher Heinrich Glanz to his heirs.
Heinrich Glanz came from a Jewish family. After the annexation of Austria, his bookshop and publishing company were closed by order of the Gestapo, who also confiscated the books stored there. One volume containing a dedication to Heinrich Glanz found its way to the collection of the Deutsche Bücherei (today: the German National Library) via the "Bücherverwertungsstelle" (book collection and distribution centre).
Thanks to this dedication, Glanz was identified as the previous owner and the book restored to his heirs.
The German National Library in Leipzig will be extended - the fifth time in the location's history. Architects are currently planning the building as part of an international competition. Find out more about the topic and the milestones.
Over a century of the German National Library - over 100 reasons to celebrate the nation's cultural memory! Find out more about this topic and what else was important in 2023
The guest invited to have her say in the third and latest episode of the podcast released by the German Museum of Books and Writing is Leipzig-based illustrator Gerda Raidt.
Following an initial grounding in fine art at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle, the Berlin-born illustrator turned to applied art and studied with Volker Pfüller at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig. Since then, she has created an increasingly diverse body of work consisting of dozens of books of her own design, beginning with her picture book ”Matrosentango“ (Sailor's Tango), which was highly commended in the ”Most Beautiful German Books“ competition.
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
From 9 May to 17 November 2024 Virtual exhibition starting on May 1st
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