Competence

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.

Specialised information service

The specialised information service for book studies, library science and information science (FID BBI for… ...

Conserving holdings

The HAB regards conserving its collections for future generations as one of its core tasks,… ...

The HAB as a state library

Today, the HAB is still a state library (Landesbibliothek) for the region which was once… ...

Manuscript centre

As a manuscript centre, the HAB views itself as a service provider for the indexing… ...

Competence Centre for Old Prints and Printed Works

When smaller libraries in northern Germany carry out in-depth cataloguing of their holdings of prints… ...