German National Library of Medicine
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The German National Library of Medicine, Cologne
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| Country | Germany |
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| Type | National library, Medical library, Research library |
| Scope | medicine, health, nutrition, environment, agriculture |
| Established | 1973 |
| Location | Cologne and Bonn |
| Coordinates | 50°55′28″N 6°54′59″E / 50.924567°N 6.916296°ECoordinates: 50°55′28″N 6°54′59″E / 50.924567°N 6.916296°E |
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| Items collected | books, journals, electronic media |
| Size | 1,500,000 books 9,000 journal subscriptions 25 million documents |
| Legal deposit | Yes, for publications in the Federal Republic of Germany |
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| Budget | €5.7 million (acquisitions) |
| Director | Ulrich Korwitz |
| Staff | 123 |
| Website | http://www.zbmed.de/ |
The German National Library of Medicine (German: Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Medizin), abbreviated ZB MED, is the national library of the Federal Republic of Germany for medicine, health sciences, nutrition, agriculture and the environment. It has two locations: Cologne and Bonn. The library is jointly financed by the Federal Ministry of Health and the 16 States of Germany. It is operated under the auspices of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
The medical library was initially formed 1973 through the mergers of several much older institutions. Between 2001 and 2003 it was further expanded to include nutritional, environmental and agricultural sciences. As a result, today ZB MED is the world's largest specialist library in its five subjects and the largest medical library in Europe.
The roots of the ZB MED can be traced to two predecessor institutions important to the heritage of the Rhineland, one founded in 1847 in Bonn and another in 1908 in Cologne.
The Academy of Practical Medicine (German: Akademie für praktische Medizin) established a hospital library in 1908 and it became a department of the University and City Library of Cologne (German: Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln) in 1920. The library survived World War II intact and in 1949 the German Research Foundation (DFG) granted it nationwide responsibility for collecting medical literature in West Germany. It also began collecting English language publications through financial support from the DFG. By 1963 the library held 250,000 books and subscribed to 1,100 journal titles.
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