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Generous donation by the television journalist Wolf von Lojewski – 326 individual sheets of the famous World Chronicle by Hartmann Schedel

[Von links nach rechts] Dr. Dorothea Sommer, Stellvertretende Generaldirektorin, Wolf von Lojewski, Dr. Claudia Fabain, Leiterin der Abteilung Handschriften und Alte Drucke, anlässlich der Schenkung | © BSB/U. Rehusch

The Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books has welcomed a generous donation: The television journalist Wolf von Lojewski presented Dr. Dorothea Sommer, Deputy Director General, and the library department with his collection of 326 individual sheets of Hartmann Schedel’s World Chronicle.

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Universitetskaja Biblioteka Online – Russian digital library available to German researchers as of now

© Markus Bormann – fotolia.com

The "Universitetskaja Biblioteka Online" is an online repository offering access to around 70,000 Russian-language e-books and e-journals. Its focus is on humanities, with the majority of publications being about Russia.

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Here we go! The STERN Photo Archive is on the way to digitization

STERN-Fotoarchiv | © BSB/H.-R. Schulz

The first 70,000 images from the STERN Photo Archive are on their way to digitization. This means that the time is drawing a bit nearer when you can see the photos online and use them.

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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek opts for using Alma by Ex Libris for modernising its library services

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek | © BSB/H.-R. Schulz

The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB), Germany’s largest research and universal library, will migrate its library services to the cloud-based Alma® platform by Ex Libris. For almost 20 years, the BSB had used a local system that was becoming increasingly complex and meeting the limits of its performance capability. The transition to the cloud-based software as a service solution by Ex Libris, a company of the ProQuest group, is intended to significantly boost efficiency and user friendliness.

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