became a part of the Prussian State administration - all this was closely connected to the newly founded University of Berlin. During this time the increasing growth of the holdings marked the start of the [...] establishment of the International Exchange of Official Publications for the Federal Republic of Germany, later the Department of Official Publications and International Exchange of Official Publications. The [...] between East and West hindered its normal development for almost half a century. Up to the present day the Staatsbibliothek still has to deal with the consequences and endeavours to regain its role in providing

Department. Until 1943, the collection had grown to approximately 68,000 Chinese printed volumes, 1,700 manuscripts and 5,000 Japanese volumes. Korean prints or manuscripts had, until then, not been collected [...] after the German reunification. The Asia-Africa-Department in East Berlin had to rely mainly on exchange copies for collecting and making accessible modern literature and relevant information from and [...] the Staatsbibliothek by the Department of Collection Development in the context of international exchange agreements. Concerning the other countries of the East and South-East Asian region, the Staatsbibliothek