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 the editor:

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

Contents of the current newsletter:

Newsletter 41, April 2009

• Editorial
• Social Studies of Western Europe: projects and resources (WESLINE conference 2008) / Bess Ryder
• Languages Matter / Martin Swales
• New British Library Acquisitions / Susan Reed
• Schnitzler's Nachlass 'saved by a Cambridge student' / Christian Staufenbiel
• The Wende Museum, Los Angeles: a museum and archive of the Cold War / John Ahouse
• Joseph Haydn and the business of Music / Rupert Ridgewell
• GSLG and WESLINE / Graham Whitaker

Contents of issue no. 40 (January 2008):

• 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

Contents of issue no. 39 (January 2007):

• 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

Contents of issue no. 38* (January 2006):

• 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

Contents of issue no. 36/37 (January 2005):

• 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

Contents of issue no. 35 (January 2004):

• 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

Contents of issue no. 34 (July 2003):

• 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

Contents of issue no. 33 (January 2003):

• 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

Contents of issue no. 32 (July 2002):

• 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

Contents of issue no. 31 (January 2002):

• 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

Contents of issue no. 30 (June 2001):

• 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

Contents of issue no. 29 (January 2001):

• 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

Contents of issue no. 28 (July 2000):

• 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

Contents of issue no. 27 (January 2000):

• 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

Contents of issue no. 26 (July 1999):

• 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

Contents of issue no. 25 (January 1999):

• 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

Contents of issue no. 24 (July 1998):

• 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

Contents of issue no. 23 (January 1998):

• 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

Contents of issue no. 22 (July 1997):

• 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

Contents of issue no. 21 (January 1997):

• 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

Contents of issue no. 20 (July 1996):

• 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