cartography and related aspects from history to geographic information systems: more than 35,000 books, 4,500 of which are on open shelves in the maps reading rooms. The department holds in trust the old [...] 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 Gesellschaft für Kartographie (DGfK). The depot

for articles) Geographic and cartographic holdings of the Gesellschaft für Erdkunde: catalogues in book form and card catalogues Regional Search Regional subject headings after ca. 1995: StaBiKat Territorial [...] maps database (IKAR) Thematic search Highly detailed thematic search regarding various publications (books, articles, etc.) of all times: two subject heading catalogues with a systematic index Thematic subject

000 manuscript maps) 250,000 digitised map sheets 2,900 CD-ROMs 36,000 atlases 155,000 views 38,000 books on cartography 800 globes On behalf of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) the Map Department

al-geodetic publications. Tourist guides There is always a large variety of tourist guides on the book market, yet as territory-related advice literature these items are acquired on a very selective basis