International title abbreviations of periodicals, newspapers, important handbooks, dictionaries, laws, institutions etc. This title is considered an indispensable directory.
Entries cover abbreviations of periodical titles and of institutions and associations.
Kulturbesitz under the direction of Hartmut Walravens. This volume contains a collection of articles which will appear in English translation in the Serials Librarian . The articles, which are of varying quality and currency, deal with periodicals in German libraries and cover topics such as acquisition, selection criteria, special acquisition arrangements, periodical holdings in a number of specific libraries, and use of periodicals. The most useful and informative are three articles describing efforts to create German union catalogs of periodicals and a periodicals database. The volume concludes with a selected bibliography on periodicals in German libraries since 1945.