The Berlin State Library H istory, Collections, and Services with a Special View on the East Asia Collection

1. The Berlin State Library History, Collections, and Services with a Special View on the East Asia Collection

2. The Berlin State Library • History, facts, collections, and services • German Union Catalogue of Serials • Music Collection • East- and Southeast Asia collection

3. Some Facts • Churfürstliche Bibliothek zu Cölln an der Spree as a Electoral Library in 1661 • texts from all fields of knowledge in all languages, in every available form, from all epochs and all countries • printed works from many centuries, manuscripts, music autographs, maps, globes, atlases, estates, newspapers and periodicals, official and parliamentary documents, microfilmed materials, digitally presented texts as well as extensive databases • protection and preservation of the cultural assets Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | Shanghai Library

4. History • History before WW II • History after WW II • Two Libraries in two German states (East Berlin – Unter den Linden) • Since early 1970th West Berlin (Potsdamer Strasse) • After German unification – Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz / Berlin State Library – Prussian Cultural Heritage: • One Library at two sites Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | Shanghai Library

5. Overview • 10 million books • 4.400 incunabula • 18.350 Occidental manuscripts • 40.000 Oriental manuscripts • 250.000 autographs • 67.000 music autographs • 1.400 estates and personal archives • 1 million maps and atlases • 32.000 subscription periodicals and monograph series • 180.000 early newspapers and 350 subscription newspapers • Diverse electronic databases and full-texts • 2.3 million microfiches / microfilms • 13.5. million images in the picture archive Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | Shanghai Library

6. Principle of Universality • Regional universality: material from and about all countries and regions of the world, in the relevant languages for research purposes • Subject universality: publications from all subjects areas • Temporal universality: sources from all periods and times • Universality of media and form: material in all the important forms such as manuscripts, printed works, microfilms, electronic and online publications • Research library and cultural archive for future generations Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | Shanghai Library

7. Central Functions • nine special national collections • editorial responsibility of the German Union Catalogue of Serials (largest databases of this kind in the world • coordinating several national databases • Database of 17th century printed books in German-speaking countries (VD 17) • Database of bindings • Union catalogue of incunabula • Manuscripts database (Kalliope) • Database on pre-modern maps (IKAR) • Database of medieval manuscripts Manuscripta Mediaevalia Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | Shanghai Library

8. German National Catalogue of Serials (Zeitschriftendatenbank) • 1.4 million titles (more than 25.000 of which are online publications) with more than 7.5 million holdings • The title list spans periodicals from all countries, in all languages, and on all subjects. It is not restricted to any particular time period. • The catalogue is online available – free of charge atwww.zdb-opac.de Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | Shanghai Library

9. Music Department • 67.000 autographs and manuscript copies • 430 estates • 79.000 letters • 8.000 portraits • 90.000 books • 460.000 copies of printed music • 14.000 libretti • 44.000 sound carriers Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | Shanghai Library

10. Music Collections • Beethoven’s conservation booklets • Carl Maria von Weber’s collected works including his writings, letters and documents • Mendelsssohn-Archive, founded by the composer Felix Mendelssohn-Barthodly’s grand-grandson in 1964 • Johann Sebastian Bach’s autographs of both passions, the Christmas Oratorio, the Mass in B Minor and the Brandenbourg Concertos • six of Joseph Haydn’s London Symphonies • The Jupiter Symphony and almost all major operas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony • Carl Maria Weber • Schumann and Brahms… Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | Shanghai Library

11. The East Asia Department of the Berlin State Library - German National Resource for East Asia • Special Subject Collection East and Southeast Asia (Sondersammelgebiet) supported by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) • Blauer Leihverkehr (inter-library loan service for German and European libraries) • East and Southeast Asia Virtual Library – CrossAsia (http://crossasia.org – platform to organise controlled access to e-resources) Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | Shanghai Library

12. East Asia Collection • collection building policy covers all areas of interest • all countries of this region are included: PR China (with Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, Tibet, Hong Kong and Macao), Taiwan, Mongolia, Japan, and North and South Korea • humanities and social sciences • rare ancient material from China and Japan such as manuscripts and woodblock prints • Access through own Unicode-databases and special inter-library loan service • Databases for German registered users in conjunction with the policy of German Research Foundation Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | Shanghai Library

13. Acquistion Principles for e-resources • Only databases which allow nationwide access within Germany are acquired resp. licensed. • The contract for the special nationwide inter-library loan service („Blauer Leihverkehr“) is the base for access within Germany. The registered institutions for the „Blauer Leihverkehr“ must be able to get access to the electronic resources of the East Asia Department of the Berlin State Library. • Usually, electronic resources should be hosted in Berlin. • The technical infrastructure – being quite different for the various East Asian databases – should be integrated into the Berlin State Library IT structures. • The use of the electronic resources should be offered through the same IT structures of the Berlin State Library as those of the other departments Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | Shanghai Library

14. Databases available through CrossAsia • Fulltext-Databases offered through CrossAsia: • 四庫全書 = Siku Quanshu • 漢達文庫 = Chinese Ancient Texts • 国学宝典 = Guoxue Baodian • 古今圖書集成 = The Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China (European co-operation) • Dissertations of China (Wanfangdata) (European consortium) • Policies and Laws of China = PLOC (Wanfangdata) (European consortium) • 人民日报 (Renmin ribao) = Peoples Daily (European co-operation) • GeNII; 学術コンテンツ・ポータル = Global environment for networked intellectual information • CiNII; 論文 情報 ナビゲーター = Citation information by NII • 日経 テレコン 21 = Nikkei Telecom21 • 中国基本古籍光盘库 (China Ancient Books) (European co-operation in preparation) • 明清实录 (MingQing shilu) • In Preparation: • 中国谱谍库—年谱编 (Zhongguo Pudie Ku- Nianpu bian) • 永乐大典 (Yongle Dadian) • 宋荟要辑稿 (Song Hui Yao Ji Gao) • …. Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | Shanghai Library

15. CrossAsia • Cooperative platform • Nation-wide supply of research material • Financing through own and third party fundings • National licenses • CrossAsia as basis for research in Chinese studies • European consortia approach • Technical solutions for resources from China and Japan • Persectives: More content, digitising own premodern material, platform for researchers and publishing Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | Shanghai Library

16. Berlin State Library – Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Matthias Kaun, director Head of East Asia Department kaun@sbb.spk-berlin.de Berlin State Library – http://www.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de CrossAsia – http://crossasia.org Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | Shanghai Library