The next round of DH fellowships is under way!

published 30.08.2024

At our inaugural workshop on 29 - 30 August, we will be celebrating a new year of DH fellowships and the start of the first year of the HERMES research study programme! This year, we will again be supporting research in the digital humanities and look forward to the presentation of a wide range of projects focusing on the data in our exile collection, machine learning in cataloguing processes and the anonymity of authors and translations into German.

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Building for posterity

published 21.08.2024

On the occasion of the architectural design competition for the fifth extension building, the German National Library will be displaying the competition entries and presenting the prizewinners in an exhibition to take place from 18 September to 1 October 2024.

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Discover an unexpected range of opportunities

published 14.08.2024

…in our profile on karriere.bund. You can now find us and other exciting employers in the federal administration on this platform. Browse through interviews, guest articles, interesting facts and news about careers in the public sector at federal level.

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The German National Library now collects digital music

published 14.08.2024

The German National Library's collection of online publications currently encompasses more than 16 million titles, including e-books, university publications, journals, daily newspapers, sheet music, audio books, digitised works and websites.
And digital music has now been added to the list! The new workflow has been live since June 2024 and the first music audio files have already been successfully imported. The metadata standard DDEX ERN 4.3 is used for deposits.

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4 million tables of contents

published 01.08.2024

4 million digitised tables of contents consisting of 9 million pages are now available through our catalogue and metadata services. They are accessed more than 16,000 times a day.
All tables of contents can be searched using the fulltext search function; they make our media collection more visible and easier to access. They are also used in automated subject cataloguing processes.
Work on digitising the tables of contents is still ongoing. By the end of 2024, there will be 5 million freely accessible tables of contents available for use.

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The German Exile Archive mourns the loss of Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer

published 15.07.2024

The famous US-American sex therapist died on 12 July 2024 at her home in New York City at the age of 96.
Her life story was part of the exhibition “Child emigration from Frankfurt” in 2021. She generously supported the Exile Archive with information, interviews and material.
We are grateful for the encounters with this impressive personality and mourn this great loss.

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