Library of Institute for Eastern European Studies Collection The library of the Institute for Eastern European Studies is a professional research library. It consists of approximately 174,000 items, among them there are more than 4,300 maps and approximately 590 current serials. Current issues of the most important serials (approximately 230) can be found in the serials room. Areas of collections From a thematic point of view, the collections are made up of publications on history, economy, political science, social science, regional studies, law, philosophy, art history, and cultural history of all countries of Eastern Europe, as well as publications on Slavonic studies and the Orthodox Eastern Church. Focuses Apart from the region of the Former Soviet Union, a focus is put on the region of the Russian Federation and the Ukraine, Poland, as well as the Czech Republic and Slovakia and their predecessing states. Topics In addition, there is a comprehensive collection of literature on the following topics: enlargement of the EU, history of the Black Sea, Germany, Russian emigration, studies on migration, history of the relationships between Germany and Poland. Reference library At the reference library, which consists of approximately 13,700 items, the user has access to encyclopaedias, dictionaries, biographical lexica, bibliographies, statistics, general compendia, and reference books. Map collection The map collection is made up of about 4,300 items. Among them, an internationally significant collection of approximately 500 maps can be found. It contains almost all the maps (administrative maps, physical maps, political maps, maps on economic geography) that have been published in Moscow since 1952. Furthermore, there are single maps, atlases, and maps sheets, including an almost complete collection of the German military maps. Rarities Further rarities include the Russian corpus juris "Polnoe Sobranie Zakonov Rossijskoj Imperii" and a comprehensive collection of Soviet banners. The inheritance of Professor Erik Amburger (approximately 700 books) primarily consists of rarities on Russian and Baltic history as well as items on the history of Germans in Russia, especially in Saint Petersburg. Special collection The special collection of not storable separata is made up of just about 10,000 offprints, small format items, smallest format items, etc. Access Via the local Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) of the Institute for Eastern European Studies or via Bibliotheksverbund Bayern (Gateway Bayern), the collection of monographs and magazines as of 1990 can be accessed from external sources. The catalogue can be searched both alphabetically and thematically. Map catalogues Moreover, there are numerous map catalogues available: alphabetic catalogue, subject heading catalogue, catalogue of maps and hidden maps, catalogue of bibliographies and hidden bibliographies, picture catalogue. The picture catalogue approximately lists 12,500 book-based photographs of people, buildings, monuments, scenaries, and the like of and in Eastern Europe. Analysis The library of the Institute for Eastern European Studies is committed to analysing the collection of serials as to information suitable for the subject catalogues and the special catalogues. Most other libraries do not analyse their stock of serials this meticulously. Numerous scientific serials (a total of 129) on the fields of history, economics, political science, sociology and Slavonic studies are analysed regularly. In the context of "Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Osteuropa", the essays as well as the picture catalogue and the catalogue of hidden maps are entered into an Access database. They can be accessed via ViFaOst: section "Aufsatzdatenbank Osteuropa", category "Geschichte". Online By making use of retrospective cataloguing, large parts of the library's collection are to be made available via the Internet. Especially items from the early years of the library (as of 1952) are to be catalogued, as there are many rarities among them, e.g. antiquarian works from the 19th century.
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