Berlin Central and Regional Library
The Central and Regional Library Berlin ( ZLB ) is the national library of the State of Berlin.
History and Legal Basis
The ZLB was October 1, 1995, a Berlin state law as a foundation under public law. In the foundation the America Memorial Library and the Berlin Public Library were summarized. Using the Library Law Amendment Act of the Foundation were incorporated on January 1, 2005, the Senate Library of Berlin and the Berlin catalog. The library carried in 2011, over 3.4 million print and electronic media.
The Foundation manages itself is headed by the Executive Board and Management Director Volker Heller, who is under the control of a Board of Trustees, which summarizes the basic decisions. The supervisory control the Cultural Department of the Senate Chancellery at the Governing Mayor of Berlin, who is also the landlord of the property of the Foundation and is responsible for building maintenance. On 17 October 2011, the governing parties SPD and CDU have agreed on a new construction of the ZLB, which take place at the edge of the Tempelhof field nor within this legislative period and all locations of the library is to bring together in one place.
The object of the foundation (along with the district's public libraries) the supply of all the population of Berlin with media and information. The books, records and other offers are thematically divided between the two houses of the Foundation. The Foundation has significant historical collections, estates and operates the Berlin Studies in Ribbeck House. In addition, the Foundation depository library is appearing for all fonts in Berlin. In the western part of the city, this task was previously acquired by the University Library of the Free University of Berlin. A new listing of ZLB and the district's libraries since the summer of 2008 is VÖBB24, the loan of electronic media via the web 24 hours a day.
The ZLB belongs to the composite of Public Libraries in Berlin and the Library Network Cooperative Library Network Berlin -Brandenburg ( KOBV ).
Partner libraries are the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature in Moscow Rudomino.
CFU
At the ZLB, the center of excellence for conservation archives and libraries in Berlin and Brandenburg (KBE ) is located. It was founded by an initiative of the Senate Chancellery for Cultural Affairs of the State of Berlin and the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of Brandenburg.
" This is one of the few regional initiatives that will achieve a structural improvement in the conservation of archives and libraries. The focus is the development and expansion of the network of libraries and archives of the two states. "