Department of User Services and Collection Management has a new head

published 01.07.2024

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

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.

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Building for posterity

published 11.06.2024

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.

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The digital annual report 2023 is here!

published 04.06.2024

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

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New episode of AugenRausch podcast: Gerda Raidt

published 23.05.2024

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.

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German National Library and the "MS Wissenschaft"

published 14.05.2024

Free voyage ahead! From today, the exhibition ship „MS Wissenschaft“ is sailing through German cities. For the Science Year 2024 on the theme of "Freedom", the German National Library is represented several times in the floating exhibition with the Exile Archive and the Museum of Books and Writing. We show how creative people in the GDR used their art to fight for freedom, how book printing paved the way for freedom of opinion and democratic movements, celebrate the Basic Law as the foundation of our democracy, and hear from Holocaust survivors Inge Auerbacher and Kurt S. Maier , whose memories underline the importance of our basic democratic rights. The DNB team is looking forward to the events on the ship.

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DNB grants user access from the age of 16

published 17.04.2024

The German National Library's collections are now also available to young people aged 16 and over. The minimum age was previously 18 years. By lowering the age limit, the DNB aims to make its services and resources available to an even wider circle of users and interested parties. Events specially geared towards this young age group are currently being developed.

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German National Library online shop

published 15.04.2024

Our popular transparent library bag, notebooks, T-shirts, key rings, pencil cases and much more – you will find plenty of useful and attractive merchandising articles in the German National Library's online shop. The shop is also the place to go if you want to buy our publications, exhibition catalogues and postcards.Come and visit us – we hope you will have fun browsing!

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