the libraries participating. The original project description, now modified, was published as Sammlung deutscher Drucke 1450-1912. Wolfsburg, 1989. – This project would seem to be similar to the Australian [...] materials, 5.813 Million was used for national union catalogues and related projects, and the rest was spent on modernisation projects, conservation efforts and other comparatively minor tasks. 5. The list [...] direct this project. He was succeeded by Dr Dieter George; at his untimely death in 1985 I had to take over this task together with the running of the Oriental Department. Until 1989, the project was financed