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| Berlin State Library | |
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| Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin | |
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 Unter den Linden, one of the two main buildings of the library | |
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| 52°30′26″N 13°22′15″E / 52.50722°N 13.37083°E | |
| Location | Unter den Linden 8, Potsdamer Platz 33, Westhafenstraße 1, Berlin, Germany, Germany |
| Type | Universal library |
| Established | 1661 |
| Collection | |
| Items collected | books, journals, newspapers, magazines, music autographs, databases, maps, prints, drawings, incunabula and manuscripts |
| Size | 23,110,423[1] 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[2] |
| Access and use | |
| Access requirements | any person over 16 years of age |
| Circulation | 1.7 million |
| Other information | |
| Budget | ~€16,000,000 |
| Director | Achim Bonte |
| Website | staatsbibliothek-berlin.de |
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 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.[3] It collects texts, media and cultural works from all fields across many languages, from all time periods and all countries of the world, and offer them for academic and research purposes.
Prominent items in its collection include the oldest biblical illustrations in the fifth-century Quedlinburg Itala fragment, a Gutenberg Bible, the main autograph collection of Goethe, the world's largest collection of Johann Sebastian Bach's and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's manuscripts, and the original score of Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9.[4]
- ^ staatsbibliothek-berlin.de Archived 12 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine in German. Retrieved 25 February 2012
- ^ "Centre for Deposit Copies". Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin. Archived from the original on 19 April 2022. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
- ^ "Die Staatsbibliothek: Porträt" [About the State Library] (in German). Retrieved 1 February 2012.
- ^ "Die Staatsbibliothek: Zahlen und Fakten" [Facts and Figures] (in German). Archived from the original on 12 March 2012. Retrieved 1 February 2012.