Collection building principles Being Germany’s centre for cartographic holdings, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin collects maps, and atlases as well as topographical city and landscape views from all continents [...] the DFG funding programme "Specialised Information Services for Research" the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin is responsible for the specialised information service Cartography and Basic Spatial Data. The map [...] collected by the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (Ibero-American Institute). The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin prefers to acquire tourist guides in German or in the lingua franca of the respective country.

and Friday 9am – 5pm Tuesday and Thursday 9am – 7pm Haus Unter den Linden Unter den Linden 8 10117 Berlin Phone: +49 30 266 435 511 How to get to the library Information get contact

department holds in trust the old map collection and the library of the Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin (comprising ca. 15,000 maps and 40,000 books published before 1939) and the archive of the Deutsche

libraries (Overview in German) Specialised Information Service Cartography and Geodata (SIS Maps at SBB Berlin) Specialised Information Service for Geosciences (SIS GEO at SUB Göttingen) Virtual Subject Library

maps database (IKAR) Views (mainly published before 1940): Microfiche catalogue of the old holdings Berlin views : Special database under development Publications on cartography (incl. gazetteers and touristic