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 map collection and the library of the Gesellschaft für Erdkunde [...] 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 library of the DGfK has become part of the holdings

Furthermore it holds the map collection and library of the Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin , which are on permanent loan, and it is also the depot library of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kartographie [...] 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

information service Cartography and Basic Spatial Data. The map department also functions as depot library for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kartographie (DGfK). Within the framework of the project Sammlung [...] 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