enabled the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin to take first steps towards a virtual reconstruction of the old East Asia Collection of the Prussian State Library. [...] Prussian State Library A generous grant allotted by the Commissary for Culture and Media (BKM) of the German Federal Government and the cooperation with the Biblioteka Jagiellońska in Krakow, Poland, enabled [...] East Asia Berlin-Krakow Project: The Digitisation of East Asian Berlinka Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media The Virtual Reconstruction of the Old East Asia Collection of the Prussian

as the possible virtual reconstruction of the old East Asia Collection of the former Prussian State Library. After a initial one-year grant was allotted by the Commissary for Culture and Media (BKM) of [...] of the German Federal Government, the East Asia Department of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin was able to start in early 2013 with the visual inspection and selection of titles to be digitised in Krakow. [...] and altogether five collection segments. These will be briefly described below, and their present state of assessment and digitisation presented.

the Sinica and Mandschurica in the East Asia Collection of the Royal- and, later, Prussian, State Library were assigned the shelf marks Libri sin. . After that, on the occasion of an incipient large-scope [...] Search ). Essential parts from both shelf mark segments can be found in both Berlin and Krakow. Considering 309 titles in Berlin and 84 in Krakow, the digitisation project will make it possible to provide [...] Wilhelm Karl) Müller in the East Asia Department of the Berlin Ethnological Museum, the collection of which had also been acquired by the Royal Library; it is today kept in Krakow (cf. below). Herbert Müller

haften in Kiel . Cooperation with other Departments of the State Library in Berlin The East Asia Department of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin maintains a working cooperation with other departments in the [...] fields that are otherwise excluded. Library acquisition in the fields of engineering, medicine, economics, and agriculture is taken care of by the relevant Central Libraries. These are the Technische Infor [...] East Asia Languages and Countries The major part of the collection is written in Asian languages. Library acquisition policies take into consideration the different research subjects within the fields of

longer in the library but packed in crates and distributed among 30 evacuation places to the East and West of Berlin. In 1943, the East Asia Collection of the former Prussian State Library comprised about [...] bomb, precautions were taken to evacuate by and by all holdings of the library to surrounding estates, coal mines, etc. outside of Berlin. What began as a well-controlled procedure with detailed packing lists [...] Elector Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg (1620-1688) had acquired the first Chinese titles for his library which he had opened also to scholars and guests. In 1683, a card catalogue compiled by Andreas Müller

zu Berlin. Collection of the Berlin Mongolian Maps Access to the digitised collection of 181 Mongolian manuscript-maps from the special subject collection of the East Asia Department. The Berlin Mongolian [...] them available for research. Partner institutions are the National Library of Laos, Passau University and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz. The project is financed by the Deutsche [...] SSG): SSG 6,25 Digital With this ongoing project, the East Asia Department of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin has started to digitise selected sections of its holdings. The DFG-funded project is made up of 5

Asia. Read more Berlin-Krakow Project In the years between 2010 and 2014 the East Asia Department of Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Berlin State Library) digitized selected parts of its Berlin holdings. The [...] of the East Asia Department. Read more Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Ostasienabteilung (East Asia Department) Potsdamer Strasse 33 10785 Berlin Tel.: +49 30 266 436001 Fax: +49 30 266 336001 East Asia Department

haften in Kiel . Cooperation with other Departments of the State Library in Berlin The East Asia Department of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin maintains a working cooperation with other departments in the [...] had to be relocated due to the war, was not returned to Berlin. Only 24,000 items found their way back to the Oriental Department of the East Berlin Staatsbibliothek (since 1969: Asia-Africa-Department) [...] Today, about one third of the former collection is in Berlin while the rest is destroyed or considered lost. Both departments in East and West Berlin developed quite differently until 1991, shortly after

zu Berlin is appears there under her Japanese name ベルリン国立図書館. By using an ident number, the so called Library ID/図書館 ID, it is possible to narrow a search down to the collection of a single library. In [...] may use all other kinds of inter-library loan facilities like Subito or International inter-library loan services (cf. Access and Services ). Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Ostasienabteilung (East Asia Department) [...] being produced and maintained cooperatively by some 4,300 libraries, documenting all holdings of periodical materials in German and Austrian libraries. Conventional Catalogues The holdings of materials in

including periodicals, is registered in the general catalogue, Stabikat , of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and can also be found in the Online Catalogue of the East Asia Department . Please note that Chinese [...] literature comes from the PR China or India. To a lesser degree, publications from the Himalayan states of Nepal and Bhutan are part of the collection. As for the romanisation, please see: On Letters,