Handbuch der Bibliotheken: Deutschland, Osterreich; Schweiz

This new edition of the Handbuch der Bibliotheken lists no fewer than 7,795 libraries, 6,113 of them in Germany, 844 in Austria, and 838 in Switzerland. Arranged alphabetically by places, the entries are uniform, succinct and informative. Under the name of each library is its address, telephone number, the name of its current director, statistics of its holdings of books, journals and other materials, and, where applicable, its online systems. There are five sequences, the German list occupying rather more than half the volume; this is followed by the Austrian list, the Swiss list and finally there are name and...