Current activities

The dates for the first seven months of 2025 are available online now. The rich and varied course programme has been complimented by several new courses in English, which are directed to our international users, as well as the webinar "Mission possible" on searching databases and research materials relating to studies of eastern Europe. All dates can be found in our course schedule.

The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek holds one of the world's largest collections of microfilmed archival documents worldwide. There is a focus on the history of East Europe, in particular the Russian or Soviet and Ukrainian history of the 19th and early 20th century. This unique collection thus offers access to archival documents which are hard to come by for an unforeseeable time, due to Russia attacking Ukraine.

The stern Photo Archive of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek has been launched online. The library thus makes one of the most important visual archives of the Federal Republic accessible to the public. At stern-fotoarchiv.de the first 250,000 pictures of the total of around 15 million pictures are available for scholars, the public and commercial use. The portal is under construction and is expanded continuously.

The Joint Science Conference of the Federal State and the Laender took a decision on the applications of the third call for tender round for the national research data infrastructure (Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur, NFDI) at their meeting on 4 November 2022. The consortium NFDI4Memory coordinated under the lead of the Leibniz Institute for European History, Mainz, was approved.

After you have logged in on the web page of our booking system, you can now view and manage your bookings in a newly designed overview.