be found on the web page Accession Lists . The joint open access reading room ( OLS ) of both the Oriental and the East Asia Departments allocates some 20,000 items of reference materials, bibliographies

Orient Coptic Manuscripts The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin owns an important collection of 111 Coptic and 2 Old Nubian manuscripts. Already in the years 1677 to 1679, the widow of the orientalist Theodor

Orient Hebrew Manuscripts The collection of Hebrew manuscripts contains numerous outstanding and precious individual pieces. The collection, which today comprises around 500 volumes, was built up with

and learning or a collaborative environment for teamwork: make the Staatsbibliothek your own. Orientation in the Reading Rooms Silence Unter den Linden Manuscripts Reading Room (only in German) Maps Reading [...] Reading Room (only in German) Rare Books Reading Room Newspaper Reading Room Sakya Potsdamer Straße Oriental Reading Room East Asia Reading Room Eastern Europe Reading Room Laptop-free zone on the 2nd floor

works and other, often unique, materials in the special collections – these include western and oriental manuscripts, music autographs, estates and deposits, personal collections, maps, and historic newspapers [...] related special departments for literature and other materials from Eastern Europe, East Asia and the Orient will remain at this location. Building for Research and Culture In order for the library to achieve

Miklawš Jakubica from 1548 is one of the oldest monuments of the Sorbian language. Due to its orientation, the manuscript is also an important source for the entire West Slavic historical dialectology

activities. It thus sets itself the aim of expanding the music department from a purely service-oriented library into a state-of-the-art research centre. In previous decades research into sources - the

important acquisitions of this era were the Diez Library (17,000 volumes, 836 manuscripts, notably Oriental items), the Nagler Collection (primarily older German literature and many manuscripts), the Méjan [...] Music Department (1842) Manuscript Department (1886) Map Department (1859; separate department 1922) Oriental Department (1918) East Asia Department (1922) The catalogue situation also experienced significant [...] million volumes of printed materials 360,000 sheet music items 7,400 incunabula 72,000 western, oriental and music manuscripts, numerous personal papers of scholars and writers 475,000 autographs (not

Potsdamer Straße Information in the Reading Room Mon - Sat 10am - 6pm Delivery of special area volumes Orient and East Asia Reading Room Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm Café Current Information on user services: Service-Blog

points both in the buildings and the virtual locations on the web. Training courses and target group-oriented information events complement the offered services. Reader Services Head of Section Dr. Christina [...] spk-berlin.de Tel.: +49 30 266 433 747 Most of the monographs and the holdings of the Eastern Europe and Oriental Department are administered by the subject area stack Haus Potsdamer Straße. Subject area Stack