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By Susan Reed
The German Studies Library Group (GSLG) is a forum for information about German Studies in libraries throughout the UK, and beyond. Are you a librarian working with German Studies collections, or simply interested in German Studies? Would-be members are warmly encouraged to join via the membership page on our website.
To give you a flavour of our activities: our Annual General Meeting takes place on Friday 5 July, on this occasion at the Goethe-Institut in London. It involves an afternoon programme beginning with refreshments and including a tour and talk about the Institute as well as a guest lecture on German musicians in Victorian Britain from Dr Stefan Manz, Head of German in the School of Languages and Social Sciences, Aston University – and, like me, a German who has lived and worked in the UK for quite a number of years.
In 2011, the Group celebrated its silver anniversary, and since its inception, it has always included representatives from the British Library. Outreach and networking are important aspects of any British Library curator’s role, and groups such as the GSLG enable exchanges of ideas and best practice among curators and librarians alike, across the country, working at a variety of research, university, and other libraries and institutions. The British Library’s German Studies collections constitute a fabulously rich resource, and the GSLG also provides the British Library, and members from other institutions, a welcome opportunity to promote the value and possibilities of significant German-language collections to as wide an audience as possible.
In recent years, the GSLG has organised two conferences in Germany, at Göttingen and Halle where we were guests of the University Libraries in both cities as well as visiting other major German libraries such as those in Erfurt, Gotha, Leipzig, Hildesheim and Wolfenbüttel.
The GSLG also publishes its own Newsletter (held by the British Library at shelfmark ZK.9.b.1089), circulated free of charge to all GSLG members. We welcome articles and news stories both from our members and from writers beyond our membership. If you have an idea for an article you would like to contribute, or news you would like to share with readers interested in German Studies collections in the UK and further afield, please contact the Newsletter’s editor: [email protected].
Dorothea Miehe, Curator German Studies
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Previously published on blogs.bl.uk and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
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