Preserving contemporary and all times books

Germany never had National library strictly speaking. Example of decentralization and cooperation, its library network is based on 70 academic libraries, 7 interregional libraries, regional and special fields libraries. In the Union treaty (october 1990, the 3rd), a law plans to create a public institution with both more important existing collections : the Deutsche Bücherei of Leipzig (1912) and the Deutsche Bibliothek of Francfort (1916) are going to become the « Deutsche Bibliothek », keeping their actual two localizations. Their respective functions are already defined : Francfort, as an information, national bibliography, technical research center... Leipzig as a preservation, edition and printing history one. That requires a new construction in Francfort and a renovation in Leipzig.
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