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The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek acquires the entire photographic work of Isolde Ohlbaum from 1970 up to the present, composed of black-and-white negatives, coloured slides and image files. The archive also includes voluminous correspondence with portrayed persons of the literary and cultural life.

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.

More than 3,000 volumes are comprised by the top-class collection of medicine-historical works donated to the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek by Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h. c. mult. Gerd Plewig, long-time Director of the Hospital and Polyclinic for Dermatology and Allergology in Munich, and his wife Dr. med. Helga Lincke-Plewig.