priorities of the Eastern European Department besides the Specialist Information Service Slavonic Studies were and are: Russian fiction and publications on literature, art and cultural history of the period [...] the Staatsbibliothek as a deposit and was to be returned to a free Lithuania. This restitution took place in 1997. The holdings can still be used in microfiche format in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Potsdamer

Europe collection is on the humanities and social sciences. Specialised Information Service Slavonic Studies The Specialised Information Service as part of a DFG-funded programme for the research community [...] geographically minor languages, in close selection from the geographically larger Eastern European Areas. Study literature in the field of language and literature, history and law: literature of this kind in minor [...] translations from Western European into Eastern European languages, offprints. Scientific literature and study literature including journals, series, biographies, commemorative publications and conference publications