Newsletter

The German Studies Library Group Newsletter appears once a year and is circulated free of charge to all members. Non-members and libraries are welcome to take out a subscription, at £12.00 per year.

To subscribe, please contact either or both of the editors:

Dorothea Miehe
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London
NW1 2DB

Christopher Skelton-Foord
New College
University of Oxford
Holywell Street
Oxford
OX1 3BN

If you have an article or news item in mind that you would like to contribute to the Newsletter, please also contact the editors.

Issue listing

Please follow the links below for a contents list of each issue.


Contents of issue no. 43 (April 2011):

  • Dorothea Miehe / Christopher Skelton-Foord: Editorial
  • Alison Wilson: Fifth annual WESLINE conference
  • Notice: Erster Weltkrieg in Alltagsdokumenten
  • David Lowe: Major new donation of film books to Cambridge
  • John Ahouse: A brush with the authorities: painters in East Germany
  • Notice: German-speaking exiles in southern California after 1945 [International Feuchtwanger Society conference]
  • Elisabeth Pyroth: Übersetzen als Kulturaustausch: cultures in translation
  • Bettina Wagner: Digitization of books printed in the fifteenth century: a project of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
  • David Lowe: Twenty-five years of the German Studies Library Group
  • Notices: Language matters more and more [British Academy paper] / Durham University Library acquires major German manuscript [Single leaf from Bede, Homilies on the Gospels, second or third quarter of the ninth century]

42 (April 2010):

  • Dorothea Miehe / Christopher Skelton-Foord: Editorial
  • Clemens Gresser: Fourth annual WESLINE conference
  • Notice: DACH blog [of the British Library]
  • Roger Paulin: Alexander von Humboldt, 1769-1859: scientist and explorer
  • Alison Wilson: Einweihung des Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrums an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Stefan Manz: ‘Musical migrants’ between Germany and Scotland during the nineteenth century
  • Susan Reed: Material from the Viennese Revolution of 1848 in the British Library
  • Dorothea Miehe: „Leipzig liest” – and reading rocks!
  • Notices: Fifth annual WESLINE conference / Under covers: documenting spies [Cambridge University Library exhibition] / New online search facility at the Swiss Federal Archives / Cataloguing early German and Low Countries imprints / Die Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek: Portal für Kultur und Wissenschaft / HEFCE review of modern foreign languages provision / Goethe-Universität Frankfurt to acquire the Habermas Archive / EU bookshop digital library / Schweizer Reize: die Schweiz in Reiseführern [Swiss National Library exhibition]
  • Dorothea Miehe: Editorial
  • Notice: Postcards from Checkpoint Charlie [Bodleian Library publication]
  • Bess Ryder: Social Studies of Western Europe: projects and resources (WESLINE conference 2008)
  • Martin Swales: Languages Matter
  • Susan Reed: Two New British Library Acquisitions
  • Christian Staufenbiel: Schnitzler’s Nachlass ‘saved by a Cambridge student’
  • John Ahouse: The Wende Museum, Los Angeles: a museum and archive of the Cold War
  • Rupert Ridgewell: Joseph Haydn and the business of Music
  • Graham Whitaker: GSLG and WESLINE
  • Notices: Fourth annual WESLINE conference / Relaunch of the European Library / Frauen in Bewegung: 1918-1938 [Austrian National Library portal] / Europeana – Europe’s digital library / Over 11,000 new Swiss books published in 2008 / Retrospektive und Innovation – der späte Joseph Haydn [Joseph Haydn-Institut conference] / Celebrating 50 years of German studies at Newcastle / Das digitale Historische Archive Köln / Bücher für Gelehrte [Bavarian State Library exhibition] / Autopsie Schiller [Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach exhibition]
  • W.A.Kelly / Susan Reed: Editorial
  • Maureen Pinder: Report on the 2007 Conference held at the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
  • Susan Reed: AGM and Miniconference, Manchester 2007
  • Heiner Schnelling: The Virtual Library of Eighteenth-Century German Imprints
  • Winfried Giesen: The German Language and Literature Collections at the University of Frankfurt am Main
  • Martin Durrell: Language, Nation and Identity in the German-Speaking Countries
  • Susan Reed: Number which? An apology
  • Graham Nattrass: WESLINE Conference 2006
  • Annual Conference, Göttingen 2007 [an announcement]
  • W.A.Kelly: Fabian’s Handbuch deutscher historischer Buchbestände in Europa, Bd. 10: Additions, I
  • W.A.Kelly: Additions to VD16 from Edinburgh
  • W.A.Kelly: Survey of pre-1801 Low Countries imprints in Scottish research libraries
  • Richard Hacken; Kizer Walker: The WESS East German study tour: a report
  • Sabine Wefers: Convergence: ein “Allheilmittel” auf dem Prüfstand
  • Joan Williams: The Meissen Library Appeal
  • Graham Nattrass: New Scandinavian Catalogue to be published by The British Library
  • Jeffrey Garrett: New wind in GNARP sails: an auspicious beginning at CRL
  • Deborah Rose-Lefmann: CRL resources for German research
  • Susan Reed: Libraries and innovation: Fourth Anglo-German Seminar on Library History
  • Joan Williams: The Meissen Library at Durham Cathedral
  • Dr. Kathrin Paasch: Die Forschungsbibliothek Gotha
  • Brandon High: The collection of H. G. Adler
  • Susan Reed: AGM and Conference 2005
  • Iris Wolfram: “Ich habe Dir also von Jena zu erzählen”: zum Schillerjahr 2005
  • Graham Nattrass: ‘Unheimlich gross’: the Prospects for an 18th-Century German Union Catalogue – addenda and corrigenda

* No. 38 is wrongly designated on the cover as no. 36

  • Brandon High: Preserving the documentary record of German communism: the library of Gert-Joachim Glaessner
  • Nick Chadwick: Adorno conference in Oxford
  • Susan Reed: London conference 2004
  • W.A. Kelly: Reference resources for cataloguing German and Low Countries imprints to ca. 1800: supplement
  • Susan Reed: Events for the Schiller year 2005
  • Roger Brisson: Vendor-supplied LC-MARC bibliographic records for German-language assessment: an updated and critical assessment
  • Graham Nattrass: ‘Unheimlich gross’ – the prospects for an 18th century German union catalogue
  • W.A. Kelly: ‘Unheimlich gross’ – a response from an Edinburgh perspective
  • Iris Wolfram: Alles atmet die klassische Zeit: wie sich die Herzogin-Anna-Amalia-Bibliothek in Weimar langsam nach dem Brand erholt
  • Alison Wilson: Book review: the renaissance of the library – adaptable library buildings
  • Ann Lees: German/French Studies Library Groups’ AGM and Conference 2003
  • Anthea Bell: Translation: Creating an Illusion
  • Richard Hacken: Types of digital library cooperation in German studies
  • W.A.Kelly: New online reference work on pre-1800 German imprints
  • Graham Whitaker: Digitising Cassirer
  • Almut Boehme: The AACR2 translation project
  • Karen Attar: Friend and Foe: England and Germany in an exhibition at the University of London Library
  • Michal Nix: An uncommonly heavy collection: tons of tomes
  • W.A.Kelly: Some notes on the Dieterichs Collection
  • Donation of Paul Celan material to the University of Cincinnati
  • Deanna B. Marcum: Attracting scholars to the profession
  • Amory Burchard: A Director-General’s new broom
  • Susan Reed: “Nicht bei Paisey”: some additions to the British Library’s 17th Century German STC
  • Ekkehard Henschke: Das Jahrhunderthochwasser und die Bibliotheken in Sachsen
  • Gail Hueting: Special collections in German studies in North American libraries
  • Stephen Bury: New strategic directions revisited: the Western European Collections of the British Library
  • Janet Allan: GSLG study day 5 September 2002: Imperial War Museum, London
  • K.E.Attar: A Reformation slanging match, or, A rare German book in the Durning-Lawrence Collection in the University of London Library
  • Roger Macdonald: Goethe’s influence in America
  • Susan Reed: Habet suum fatum libellus: the brief history of a book in Reformation, war and peace
  • W.A.Kelly: Universalle Floode
  • Ewald Brahms: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
  • Carl Paschek: Special subject collection for Germanistik, Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
  • David Wells: Review: Elspeth Hyams, Blurred boundaries, clear focus … The Library Association Record 103(10) (October 2001) pp. 612-615
  • W.A.Kelly: Note on above and following texts
  • Lynne Brindley: Reply to Prof. Wells
  • Christian Staufenbiel: 16th Annual Conference and AGM Glasgow 30-31 August 2001
  • David Paisey: On cataloguing a collection of illustrated books
  • From the BL to Berlin [a tribute to Graham Jefcoate]
  • Colin Clarke: The history library with its own history
  • Penelope Carter: Study tour of German art libraries, September 2000
  • Barbara Mockert: Spirit of an age
  • Susan Reed: Beyond GSLG – other foreign studies library groups
  • John Rutledge: The role of collected-works editions
  • John Bowles: 15th Annual Meeting and Conference 7th-9th September 2000
  • Susan Reed: The Lanz von Liebenfels Collection: a new British Library acquisition
  • Bill Abbey, John Flood: The Institute of Germanic Studies celebrates its 50th anniversary
  • Grace Hudson: Resources for interpreters and translators
  • Gordon Burgess: Four years of Research in Germanic Studies (RIGS): taking stock
  • Brigitte Klosterberg: The library of the Francke Foundation in Halle
  • Klaus Graf: Donaueschingen digital: a draft
  • Bill Abbey: A long way from home: plays at the Institute of Germanic Studies
  • K.E.Attar: A visit to the Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg
  • Bess Ryder, Teresa Vernon, Jill Kempshall: French Studies Library Group: call for membership
  • Jill Kempshall: 14th Annual Meeting, November 22nd 1999
  • Susan Reed: Jahrestagung in Jena: 14th Annual Conference, 24th -28th August 1999
  • Zbigniew Gas: Report from the annual international seminar and study tour of German libraries, 12-17 June 1999
  • Jeff Garrett: Letter from America
  • David Lowe: Divided and reunited: a Cambridge exhibition on the making of modern Germany
  • Karen Kloth: The Handbuch deutscher historischer Buchbestände in Grossbritannien: some preliminary aspects
  • W.A.Kelly: A catalogue of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century German books on medicine and science in Edinburgh libraries
  • Roger Brisson: German Resources Project
  • Sheila Dickson: A historical-critical edition of the works and letters of Ludwig Achim von Arnim
  • Susan Reed: 1848 Revolution collections in The British Library
  • Richard Parker: The Harmssen Collection in the University of Warwick Library
  • Paul Bishop, Roger Stephenson: Modern German thought in Glasgow
  • Barbara Mockert: German studies in Wales: 13th annual conference, 3-5 September 1998
  • Graham Nattrass: Study tour of German libraries 1998
  • Juergen Heeg: Library buildings in the federal states of Germany: current situation and future developments
  • Roger Macdonald: Exchange agreement between Portsmouth and Jena
  • Barbara Mockert: Annual meeting of the Theodor Fontane Gesellschaft in Neuruppin, 18-20 September 1998
  • W.E. Yates: The historisch-kritische Nestroy-Ausgabe
  • M. Olson: Harvard’s German collections
  • Editorial
  • Malcolm Pender: Centre for Swiss Cultural Studies, University of Strathclyde
  • Anthony Grenville: The Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies
  • Graham Whitaker: Frankfurt: past and present
  • Armin Hetzer: Zur “Restitution kriegsbedingt verlargerter Kulturgüter aus der ehemaligen UdSSR”
  • Graham Jefcoate: UK national libraries visit to the Deutsche Bibliothek, Frankfurt, 4-5 December 1997
  • Susan Tebbutt: “Es muss nicht immer Kaviar sein”: reflections on homelessness in Germany
  • Fiona Campbell: German studies in Bradford: 12th annual conference, 4-6 September1997
  • Susan Reed: Moving experiences: the first few days of the new British Library
  • Richard Parker, Janet Wharton: GSLG web page
  • Arthur Williams: Following the scent: waymarkers in contemporary German-language literature
  • Martyn Housden: Putting people back in history, or, What is the point of a popular history of the Third Reich today?
  • John Hiden: Uncovering Paul Schiemann
  • Jenny Towey: Anglo-German Family History Society
  • David Lowe: Microforms
  • David Lowe: New periodical subscriptions – Cambridge University Library
  • Gerhard Meyer-Sichting: Fifty years of Erasmus
  • Dorothea Miehe: Kurze Geschichte einer Rettungsaktion: die Bibliothek der St. Georgs-Gemeinde in Spitalfields, London
  • Katharina Helfenstein: Die Schweizerische Landesbibliothek (SLB) in Bern
  • Peter Hoare: Sprechen Sie Englisch?: teaching English to German librarians
  • Margrit B. Krewson: German resources and projects at the Library of Congress
  • Editorial
  • Dorothea Miehe: German studies in Birmingham: 11th annual conference, 5-7 September 1996
  • Anglo-German exchange programme for librarians
  • Dorothea Miehe: “Hitler’s gift to Britain”: Second International Symposium on German and Austrian exiles in Great Britain
  • Michael Butler: The Institute for German Studies at the University of Birmingham
  • John Breuilly: Modern German history and British historians
  • Editorial
  • W.A. Kelly: The German collections in the National Library of Scotland
  • Janet Wharton: Nottingham Conference on Post-1945 Austrian Women’s Writing
  • Die Wendezeit
  • Richard Parker: Internet sources for news and current affairs
  • Mike Chambers: Cuts at the British Library
  • Graham Whitaker: Notes from an exchange visit to Mainz
  • John Tuck: Recent acquisitions at the John Rylands University Library of Manchester
  • Exile studies at the Institute of Germanic Studies
  • German Information Centre: a window on Germany in London
  • Graham Whitaker: Index to Newsletter nos. 1-20

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