New episode of AugenRausch podcast: Gerda Raidt

published 23.05.2024

The guest invited to have her say in the third and latest episode of the podcast released by the German Museum of Books and Writing is Leipzig-based illustrator Gerda Raidt.
Following an initial grounding in fine art at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle, the Berlin-born illustrator turned to applied art and studied with Volker Pfüller at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig. Since then, she has created an increasingly diverse body of work consisting of dozens of books of her own design, beginning with her picture book ”Matrosentango“ (Sailor's Tango), which was highly commended in the ”Most Beautiful German Books“ competition.

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German National Library and the "MS Wissenschaft"

published 14.05.2024

Free voyage ahead! From today, the exhibition ship „MS Wissenschaft“ is sailing through German cities. For the Science Year 2024 on the theme of "Freedom", the German National Library is represented several times in the floating exhibition with the Exile Archive and the Museum of Books and Writing. We show how creative people in the GDR used their art to fight for freedom, how book printing paved the way for freedom of opinion and democratic movements, celebrate the Basic Law as the foundation of our democracy, and hear from Holocaust survivors Inge Auerbacher and Kurt S. Maier , whose memories underline the importance of our basic democratic rights. The DNB team is looking forward to the events on the ship.

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DNB grants user access from the age of 16

published 17.04.2024

The German National Library's collections are now also available to young people aged 16 and over. The minimum age was previously 18 years. By lowering the age limit, the DNB aims to make its services and resources available to an even wider circle of users and interested parties. Events specially geared towards this young age group are currently being developed.

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German National Library online shop

published 15.04.2024

Our popular transparent library bag, notebooks, T-shirts, key rings, pencil cases and much more – you will find plenty of useful and attractive merchandising articles in the German National Library's online shop. The shop is also the place to go if you want to buy our publications, exhibition catalogues and postcards.Come and visit us – we hope you will have fun browsing!

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On searching and finding

published 10.04.2024

How can you use controlled vocabulary to find literature and data? What are authority data, and what role do they play in the description of objects such as publications, research data or collection items? In this publication, we explain how you can use authority data to improve your search results when conducting literary and data searches. It focuses first and foremost on the authority data in the Integrated Authority File (GND), the centrally controlled vocabulary for culture and research in the German-speaking countries.

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