The German National Library is also located in Leipzig and Berlin. All types of materials are collected, such as comics, government publications, tabloids, magazines, cookbooks, research reports, electronic publications, and other materials. The National Library is also responsible for the provision of unlimited public access and national bibliographic services with respect to these publications. The library serves as the central national archival library and national bibliographic information center. For example, it provides machine-readable bibliographic records and authority data for local cataloging.
All German publishers have to submit two copies of each new publication to the library.
Sound recordings and printed music are collected as well. Presently, the total collection amounts to approximately 15 million items. Annual accessions amount to about 300,000 units. Digitally available collections will be accessible anywhere in the world. This homepage provides access to the online public access catalog.