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Objective 1: By 2016, the proportion of
digitised tables of content of all mono-
graph holdings should rise from 17%
at present to 25%.
2013
Work is to begin on expanding the digi-
tisation of tables of content to include all newly
acquired monographs.
Digitisation of the tables of content of the Frankfurt
and Leipzig exile monographs is to be completed.
2014
At least 50,000 tables of content are to be
transferred from diverse cooperation partners (espe-
cially those from the German library networks).
The retrospective digitisation of tables of content
of book holdings acquired from 1985 to 2007 is to
be intensifed.
2015
The retrospective digitisation of tables of
content is to be expanded to include the collections
of the German Museum of Books and Writing.
Objective 2: By 2016, the German
National Library should have digit-
ised 50,000 books and 50,000 sound
recordings (in addition to the CD
migration project) or sheet music
collections and offer all items for use
in the reading rooms. Public domain
or appropriately licensed items should
be made available globally under
open-access conditions.
2013
The monograph works of the exile collec-
tions of the German National Library in Frankfurt
am Main and Leipzig are to be digitised.
2014
The monographs of the World War I
collection and other selected special collection
holdings are to be digitised.
A digitisation policy is to be developed and agreed
upon. The digitisation activities are to be expanded
accordingly. Special sheet music collections are to
be identifed for digitisation.
2015
Existing digitised versions, electronic pub-
lications on data carriers and all migrated sound
recordings are to be made available for use and
their accessibility improved.
2013 – 2016
The copyright status of the dig-
itised works is to be clarifed. The works are to be
made available for use either in the reading room,
licensed for the virtual exhibition platforms or re-
leased for free use worldwide via the portal catalogue.
The ad hoc digitisation of analogue sound re-
cordings (e.g. shellac records, vinyl records, tape
recordings) is to be continued.
Objective 3: The German National Li-
brary should upgrade the bibliograph-
ic metadata of all holdings by 2016 so
that they can easily be found by users
at any time and from anywhere in the
world and then used free of charge.
2014
Examples of all types of music, museum
and archive materials are to be made retrievable
via the Internet and, where possible, also accessible
via the portal of the German National Library.
Holdings which have already been indexed are to
be linked with samples of digitised content.
2015
All authority data and bibliographic meta-
data are to be ofered free of charge for re-use in
the usual formats and under the Creative Com-
mons Zero licence via the Internet.
2016
All metadata and public domain content
are to be incorporated into the portals of at least
four major Internet companies based on appropri-
ate agreements and contracts.
The persistent identifer activities are to be expand-
ed at the national and international level, and a
European URN:NBN cluster is to be set up and
put into operation.
The web oferings are to be expanded, especially
those intended for use on mobile devices, and the
presentation of data in the portal catalogue is to
be gradually improved through projects.
Objective 4: The German National
Library should improve its user
services globally and locally, thereby
achieving a 10% increase in visitor
numbers by 2016.
2013
The reading rooms at the Leipzig and Frank-
furt am Main sites have the same opening hours.
2014
An initial draft for a new set of service
regulations is to be presented which updates and
brings together the previous site and user regula-
tions while adding the use of new media.
Information services at the two sites are to be
bundled and adapted to incorporate new technical
possibilities (e.g. information chat, social media).
An initial user survey is to be carried out as part
of the efectiveness research and analysis; this is
then to be repeated at regular intervals. It should
provide information on local and virtual usage,
on non-usage and on the expectations of active,
former and potential users.
2016
The activities aimed at achieving the set
objectives which have either been started or com-
pleted are to be presented in appropriate form to
general and specialist audiences.
Objective 5: The German National Li-
brary should make an ongoing contri-
bution to the cultural life of Germany
and promote German culture abroad
through its exhibitions and events.
2014
Work on setting up a platform for present-
ing virtual exhibitions is to be completed. Three
further virtual exhibitions are to be ofered along-
side “Arts in Exile”.
2015
In order to raise its profle in the feld of
cultural educational work, cooperation agreements
with universities, schools and other educational
institutions are to be concluded. The cultural edu-
cational work is to be streamlined.
2016
The German National Library is to attract
additional groups of users and customers through
its (virtual and local) exhibition and events pro-
gramme, thereby raising its appeal as a virtual and
actual meeting place for the culturally interested.
2013 – 2016
Suitable reports are to be pub-
lished about the exhibitions and events in the
general and specialist media. A steady stream of
specialist papers is also to be submitted to relevant
academic events.
Strategic Priority 3
The German
National Library
should improve the
retrieval and usa-
bility of its holdings
and the data
describing them.
The User Services division acts as an interface between
the collections, the bibliographic data and the users of the
Library: it provides all the services required for making full
use of the media, including all related information. These
range from the search, retrieval and order functions in the
online catalogue, the provision of on-site access, work
spaces in the reading rooms and the use of electronic
publications through to the distribution of authority and
bibliographic data.
217,000 visitors used the reading rooms of the German
National Library in 2012 and were granted access to
631,000 of the almost 28 million media items. The num-
ber of digital publications accessed was roughly 12,000
per day. The digitised tables of content were clicked 23.7
million times - online and at the Library sites. By the end
of 2012 well over 120,000 sound recordings had been
migrated from sound carriers to digital storage systems;
these can now be accessed directly in the reading rooms.
90% of the bibliographic and authority data of the German
National Library can now be accessed free of charge under
Creative Commons Zero licence, and a total of 114 million
metadata records were supplied to data customers in
2012. Work was started on the development of an Internet
platform for virtual exhibitions in order to present special
inventories such as those of the German Exile Archive
1933 - 1945 or the German Museum of Books and Writing
in digital form. The frst exhibition - “Arts in Exile” - went
online in September 2013.