Berlin State Library
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state library and heritage institution in Germany
Key facts
- Location
- Unter den Linden 8, Potsdamer Platz 33, Westhafenstraße 1, Berlin , Germany, Germany
- Type
- Universal library , Public library
- Established
- 1661 ; 365 years ago ( 1661 )
- Items collected
- books, journals , newspapers, magazines, music autographs , databases , maps, prints , drawings, incunabula and manuscripts
- Size
- 23,110,423 , Consists of 12.3 million books; 206,700 rare books; 60,100 manuscripts; music autographs; 1,600 estate archives; 25,000 periodicals; 180,000 newspaper volumes; 4,300 databases; 2.7 million microfilms; 13.5 million images at the bpk
- Legal deposit
- Yes, German parliament and government publications
- Access requirements
- any person over 16 years of age
- Circulation
- 1.7 million
- Budget
- ~ € 16,000,000
- Director
- Achim Bonte
- Website
- staatsbibliothek-berlin.de
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Archive
- Founded
- 1661
- Location
- Berlin, Germany
- Also known as
- Berlin State Library
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.461943.d · ISNI 0000 0001 1480 9634
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Berlin
- Founded by
- Frederick William of Brandenburg
- Parent organization
- Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
- Industry
- voluntary sector
- Location
- Unter den Linden
- Official website
- staatsbibliothek-berlin.de
- Image
- StabiBerlin2018.jpg
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- P8168
- 1100
- Commons category
- Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
- inception
- 1661-01-01
- Commons Institution page
- Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
- topic's main category
- Category:Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
- online catalog URL
- stabikat.de
- social media followers
- 2740
- terms of service URL
- digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/nutzungsbedingungen
- short name
- SBB
- native label
- Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
- API endpoint URL
- sru.k10plus.de/opac-de-1
Sources (11)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Berlin State Library (German: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin; officially abbreviated as SBB, colloquially Stabi) is a universal library in Berlin, Germany, and a property of the German public cultural organization the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (German: Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz).
Founded in 1661, it is among the largest libraries in Europe, and one of the most important academic research libraries in the German-speaking world. It collects texts, media and cultural works from all fields across many languages, from all time periods and all countries of the world, and offers them for academic and research purposes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Berlin State Library” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.