GET GRIB! Introducing our collaborative online gateway to promote German Resources in Britain. Andrea Meyer Ludowisy & Steve Baker
GET GRIB!
Introducing our collaborative online gateway to promote German Resources in Britain.
Andrea Meyer Ludowisy & Steve Baker
Senate House Library
• Senate House Library occupies 17 of the 20 floors of Senate House
• The 4th floor upwards constitutes a purpose-built Book Tower
• It was designed by Charles Holden, constructed between 1932 and 1937 and is Grade 2 listed and its monograph holdings exceed 2 million items.
Main Reading Rooms
The Library’s main reading rooms:
The Goldsmith's Library of Economic Literature
Middlesex Library, North and South: Germanic Studies Library
Palaeography Reading Room and the Sterling Library
Germanic Studies Library
• Founded in 1950 and devoted principally to German language and literature, its holdings trace the evolution and history of the Germanic language(s) from their beginnings to the present day.
• The Germanic Studies Library comprises
• books (over 75,000 volumes), journals, microfiches, theses, etc.
• The holdings are predominantly in German, reference only and in Garside classification
Germanic Studies Archive
• Archive material has been deposited with The Institute since its foundation in 1950, by many individuals and organisations.
• A number collections give a unique overview of the history and development of Germanic studies in the UK
• Exile archives
SHL Germanic Collection
• supplementary collection covering German language, literature and literary criticism
• SHL collection concentrates mainly on translations and criticism in English of German authors
• about 12000 to 15000 items • the majority of the items are German/ translation
from German, but the Scandinavian languages and Icelandic, Norwegian, Faroese, Danish, Swedish, Dutch & Flemish are also represented
Gems in the Archive
Thomas Mann
Letter from Thomas Mann to William Rose (WRO/5/Man)
Witty poem by Albert Einstein sent to his friend Lily Hertz and a letter from Stefan Zweig to Prof. Rose
More gems Canetti 1905-1994 to Martin Miller asking for advice on “dramatic matters” (undated, c.1944)
(Miller 2/22)
GRIB: German Resources in Britain
• German Resources in Britain (GRIB) is a network of organisations committed to increasing awareness of the rich variety of German language resources in Britain.
• The primary aim of the network is to create, maintain and develop an online gateway offering information on and access to different institutions with relevant library and archival holdings.