music department. A large part of the holdings can still only be searched in a conventional way, in printed or card catalogues. Staff is committed to continually increasing the number of electronic records [...] the Music reading room. StaBiKat Card-image catalogues Kalliope RISM-OPAC Conventional catalogues Printed catalogues Lost in war? Mus.-Shelfmarks (available) Mus. O.-Shelfmarks (available) Mus. Mb-Shelfmarks [...] Magic Flute in the World Digital Library Beethoven Digital Digitised manuscript music Digitised printed music DataBase Information System (DBIS) musiconn (Portal des Fachinformationsdienstes Musikwissenschaft)

letters, and documents. The presentation is complemented by other exhibits such as first and early printings of Beethoven's works as well as engravings and portraits related to the composer of the Viennese [...] Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media). To date the holdings are catalogued in printed catalogues: In 1970, on the occasion of the last great Beethoven anniversary, the music department [...] 000 title records of one of the worldwide most complete collections of Beethoven's first and early prints (until around 1830) in their online catalogue . As the autographs are of special importance for

manuscript copies about 480 literary estates 80,000 letters 8,000 pictures and portraits 500,000 music prints 120,000 books 20,000 libretti and 43,000 sound carriers Collections development, cataloguing and

scores from 1801 to 1945) of the national project " Sammlung Deutscher Drucke " (Collection of German Prints). The Mendelssohn archive is affiliated to the department. Founded in 1964, the archive has been