Children's and Young People's Books As one of very few research libraries worldwide, the Berlin State Library holds a major collection of children’s and adolescents’ books. This collection consists of [...] young people from anywhere around the globe. It also features children’s magazines, original copies of book illustrations made for young readers, pictorial broadsheets, and posters. There is some emphasis put

the Rare Books and Music Reading Room at the Haus Unter den Linden. For preservation or legal reasons, however, specific restrictions apply in particular cases, mainly for special materials. Books and music [...] fetched from the stacks each day at 10.00 and at 14.00. The items are available ca. 2 hours later (Rare Books and Music reading room), whereas materials for home reading may be available half a day later. For

10pm Sun 10am - 6pm Opening and service hours of particular areas Information get contact StabiBooking book a desk / StabiBox [...] requested item is ready for collection. When you will receive an ordered volume depends on where the book is stored, where it is intended to be made available and when you ordered it. General rules for requests: [...] additional day. Borrowing: For seven days your requested collection items are ready for collection in the book collection area at the library site Potsdamer Straße. Items that you have requested into the reading

editions, such as, for example, 10,000 traditional titles of the collection China Ancient Books (CAB), 700,000 e-books (Chinamaxx) and 50 million scholarly and academic articles (China Academic Journals; CAJ) [...] East Asia The collection of Chinese Books at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin has a long history. As early as 1683, the first catalogue of Chinese titles, containing 25 entries, was printed for the Elector [...] spectrum of Chinese culture is considered. Even areas such as light fiction, film- and children's books, propaganda pamphlets of political parties and workers unions are included. Nearly all materials collected

copying/scanning/printing, book loan/return Haus Unter den Linden: Reading Rooms for Manuscripts, Maps and Music Mon, Wed, Fri 9am - 5pm, Tue and Thu 9am - 7pm Rare Books Reading Room Mon - Fri 9am - [...] Fri 9am - 5pm Stabi Kulturwerk Wed - Sun 10am - 6pm Thu 10am - 8pm Information get contact StabiBooking book a desk / StabiBox [...] Reading Rooms for Manuscripts, Maps and Music Mon, Wed, Fri 9am - 5 pm Tue and Thu 9am - 7pm Rare Books Reading Room Mon – Fri 9am - 7pm Sat 10am - 2pm Newspaper Reading Room Mon - Fri 10am - 4pm Café/Canteen

German-speaking world Project object These cooperative long-term projects aim to catalog the respective books on the highest national level as well as to digitize them. The SBB takes part in several projects [...] Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) in project parts Contact Michaela Scheibe Manuscripts and Early Printed Books Head of department, deputy Phone: +49 30 266 436 600 michaela.scheibe@sbb.spk-berlin.de Staatsbibliothek [...] about the project VD 16, VD 16 digital, VD 17, VD 18 - Websites of the department of Early Printed Books back Staff Unit Project Management Staff Unit Project Management projektmanagement@sbb.spk-berlin

East Asia CAB - China Ancient Books National Licence With the CAB data base, the East Asia Department provides access to 10,000 pre-modern Chinese full-text items. Access to this data base was financially [...] the online catalogue of the East Asia Department. Requirements for Data Base Access China Ancient Books needs a safe connection in a secluded environment. In order to provide users with this data base, [...] requirements, please don't hesitate to contact the SSG-National Licences . Online Access China Ancient Books Access from within Germany (please refer to requirements in main column) Registration for individual

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search (books, articles) in bibliographies and full-text databases. StabiKat Our online catalogue StabiKat is a discovery system and, in addition to printed publications, also lists e-books, e-journals [...] 10pm Sun 10am - 6pm Opening and service hours of particular areas Information get contact StabiBooking book a desk / StabiBox [...] electronic journals subscribed to by the Staatsbibliothek. EZB Remote Access Most electronic resources (e-books, e-journals and databases) are also available via remote access outside the reading rooms after r

Outstanding Objects Ms. or. oct. 987, 1v, 4. Jh. Ms. or. oct. 978 - Book of Proverbs, from the 4th century The small-format codex of the Book of Proverbs (Sapientia Solomonis) dates from the 4th century and [...] Petraeus (died 1672) sold Coptic texts to today's State Library. These were mainly copies of biblical books and lexical and exegetical treatises. In the period that followed, the collection was continuously [...] in Egypt. Its writing material is papyrus. It is probably one of the oldest completely preserved books in the world. There are not many written testimonies preserved in Achmimic. Ms. or. fol. 3065, 1r