German National Library
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The German National Library in Frankfurt
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| Country | Germany |
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| Type | National library |
| Established | 1912 |
| Reference to legal mandate | Law regarding the German National Library |
| Location | Frankfurt am Main, Leipzig, Germany |
| Coordinates | 50°7′51.98″N 8°40′59.35″E / 50.1311056°N 8.6831528°E, 51°19′50.5″N 12°23′48.1″E / 51.330694°N 12.396694°E |
| Collection | |
| Items collected | Conventional printed works, those in microform, sound recording media and digital publications on physical storage devices and net publications |
| Size | 30.9 million items (2015) |
| Criteria for collection | all publications published in Germany, all German-language publications published abroad, all translations into other languages of German-language works published abroad, all foreign-language publications about Germany published abroad known as "Germanica" written or printed works published between 1933 and 1945 by German-speaking emigrants |
| Legal deposit | yes, since 1935 |
| Access and use | |
| Access requirements | Users must be at least 18 years old and present a valid passport or ID card. Library use is subject to a charge. A valid residence permit for Leipzig or Frankfurt am Main is requested for the application. |
| Circulation | 469.721 (2015) |
| Members | 197.103 (2015) |
| Other information | |
| Budget | 50.3 million € (2015) |
| Director | Elisabeth Niggemann (1999) |
| Staff | 644.7 FTE |
| Website | www.dnb.de |
The German National Library (German: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek or DNB) is the central archival library and national bibliographic centre for the Federal Republic of Germany. Its task is to collect, permanently archive, comprehensively document and record bibliographically all German and German-language publications since 1913, foreign publications about Germany, translations of German works, and the works of German-speaking emigrants published abroad between 1933 and 1945, and to make them available to the public. The German National Library maintains co-operative external relations on a national and international level. For example, it is the leading partner in developing and maintaining bibliographic rules and standards in Germany and plays a significant role in the development of international library standards. The cooperation with publishers is regulated by law since 1935 for the Deutsche Bücherei Leipzig and since 1969 for the Deutsche Bibliothek Frankfurt.
Duties are shared between the facilities in Leipzig and Frankfurt am Main, with each center focusing its work in specific specialty areas. A third facility has been the Deutsches Musikarchiv Berlin (founded 1970), which deals with all music-related archiving (both printed and recorded materials). Since 2010 the Deutsches Musikarchiv is also located in Leipzig as an integral part of the facility there.
During the German revolutions of 1848 various booksellers and publishers offered their works to the Frankfurt Parliament for a parliamentary library. The library, led by Johann Heinrich Plath, was termed the Reichsbibliothek ("Reich library"). After the failure of the revolution the library was abandoned and the stock of books already in existence was stored at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg. In 1912, the town of Leipzig, seat of the annual Leipzig Book Fair, the Kingdom of Saxony and the Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhändler (Association of German booksellers) agreed to found a German National Library in Leipzig. Starting January 1, 1913, all publications in German were systematically collected (including books from Austria and Switzerland). In the same year, Dr. Gustav Wahl was elected as the first director.
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