page_title: Franco-German Institute
section_title: Frankreich-Bibliothek
hierarchical_section_title: Franco-German Institute / Frankreich-Bibliothek
caption_attribution_description: DFI-Bibliothek in Ludwigsburg (c) Deutsch-Französisches Institut / Ludwigsburg e.V. 2006
context_page_description: The Deutsch-Französisches Institut is an independent non-profit organization devoted to research on and documentation of contemporary Franco-German relations.
  The institute is funded by the German Foreign Office, the regional government of Baden-Württemberg and the town of Ludwigsburg. Projects are also funded by external partners.
context_section_description: The open access library and documentation centre was opened in 1990,  the collection focusing on contemporary France and Franco-German relations. The library currently holds around 37,000 volumes. In addition, there is a press cuttings archive containing over half a million articles, covering the period from 1975 to the present. The press archive has been online since summer 2009, although older material has not yet been retro-digitalised.
  The DFI, represented by the Frankreich-Bibliothek, is a member of the information network “International Relations and Area Studies” (FIV) and thus participates in the production of the World Affairs Online database (WAO). All literature, including relevant journal articles and book chapters, is catalogued in the FIV database and can be searched via the DFI catalogue, as well as through further regional and national online catalogues. The Frankreich-Bibliothek is an associate member of the Südwestdeutschen Bibliotheksverbund, a union catalogue.
  With the support of the Wüstenrot Foundation, the DFI offers a limited number of grants for short-term research in the library for both undergraduate and post-graduate students from Germany and abroad.
caption: The Frankreich-Bibliothek of the Deutsch-Französisches Institut in Ludwigsburg.
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