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The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB) and the Saxon Regional Library – State and University Library Dresden (SLUB) have started the fifth phase of the Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Musikwissenschaft (Specialised Information Service for Musicology), a project subsidised by the German Research Foundation since 2014 and now extended by a further three years. The funding volume of the 5th phase amounts to around 2.4 million euros. The objective of the infrastructure project is to provide relevant information services for research in musicology in Germany. In the course of the coming three years, the BSB and the SLUB thus will further expand their already established services.

An initial 21,000 pictures of the photographer Isolde Ohlbaum are already available online – in the new picture portal of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. The photographer Isolde Ohlbaum is one of the most famous chroniclers of the national and international literary and artistic scenes. Since the 1970s, she has specialized on portraits of authors in particular. At fotoarchiv-ohlbaum.bsb-muenchen.de the pictures of the artist can now be viewed, searched and licensed.