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The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and the National Library of Kosova "Pjetër Bogdani" signed a cooperation agreement today, on Friday, 28 October 2022, in the presence of the Bavarian State Minister for Sciences, Research and the Arts, Markus Blume, the Kosovar Minister for Culture, Youth and Sports, Hajrulla Ҫeku, and the Kosovar Consul General in Munich, Afrim Nura. The agreement envisages a closer cooperation of the two institutions in numerous fields of library activities.

The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek has acquired the archive of the photographer Nikolai Molodovsky (1899 – 1986), which includes around 69,000 images. Nikolai Molodovsky documented everyday life in the Bavarian countryside during the time after the war, thereby creating impressive snapshots which frequently tell stories. The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek further expands its important Image Archive – the largest of its kind held by any German public-sector institution – by this unique collection of materials from Bavaria.

The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek has just provided online access to its 3-millionth digital copy. The library thus makes the majority of its copyright-free holdings and collections from many centuries available digitally to education, research and the broad public, with the greatest portion being retrievable at digitale-sammlungen.de. The number of three million digitized manuscripts, incunabula, rare printed works, books, newspaper issues, images and special materials corresponds to around 400 million image files, which are available online free of charge anywhere and at any given time. In terms of memory space for long-term archiving, this corresponds to over 1.1 petabytes.