Conserving holdings
The HAB regards conserving its collections for future generations as one of its core tasks,… ...
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As a state library, manuscript centre and competence centre for early printed books, the HAB plays a special role beyond the region. This also applies to the state advisory service on questions of conservation and to the specialist information service for book, library and information science.
The HAB as a state library
Today, the HAB is still a state library (Landesbibliothek) for the region which was once… ...
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Manuscript centre
As a manuscript centre, the HAB views itself as a service provider for the indexing… ...
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Competence Centre for Old Prints and Printed Works
When smaller libraries in northern Germany carry out in-depth cataloguing of their holdings of prints… ...
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