Funding organisation: DFG Funding level: Personnel and physical resources Running time: 1995 – 1997  Project description: The library of the German Orientalist Society (DMG) has been collecting orientalist research literature since its foundation in 1846 and has been cared for by the UB (since 1949 the ULB) Halle since 1895. During the years of political division of Germany from 1949 to 1989, it was not possible for the ULB Halle to acquire the necessary amount of scholarly literature from Western Europe, the USA and other countries with convertible currencies (foreign exchange literature) from the funds provided for the DMG library. The resulting gaps in the holdings, especially concerning the field of Arabic studies, were closed in between 1995-1997 with the support of the DFG, Furthermore, all acquired titles were recorded in the electronic catalogue of the ULB Halle.      Supplementary information and publications:     The titles acquired as part of the project are listed in the OPAC of the ULB Halle and in the catalogue database of the Common Library Network (GBV).