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Projects and partners

The Friedrich Ebert Foundation Library does its work within the framework of a large political foundation. Of major importance, however, is the cooperation with external partners who support our work financially, infra-structurally, and in non-material ways.
The decision to cooperate with a certain partner is guided by the goal to make the inventories, some of which are truly unique, optimally available for national and international research and science, to index and to present them.
Below, these partners are mentioned by name. The pages that lie behind the respective links describe the projects (both ongoing and completed) conducted with these partners.
In order to gain further information about our cooperation partners, please visit their homepages directly. You will find the corresponding link on the pages detailing that partner's projects with the FES.

General Cooperations

  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
    [German Research Foundation]
    Since 1976, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [German Research Foundation] has also included the Friedrich Ebert Foundation Library as a specialised library of national importance within the scope of its programmes for the improvement of national literary supply...
    More Information.. | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Bibliothecal Cooperations

  • Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund (GBV)
    [Common Library Network]
    The FES Library has been cooperating with the Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund (GBV) [Common Library Network] since the late 1990s.
    More Information.. | Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund
  • Hochschulbibliothekszentrum NRW (HBZ)
    [NRW University Library Centre]
    The FES Library cooperated with the Hochschulbibliothekszentrum NRW (HBZ) [North Rhine Westphalia University Library Centre] from the late 1970s onwards.
    More Information.. | Hochschulbibliothekszentrum NRW (Website only in german)
  • Kooperativer Bibliotheksverbund Berlin-Brandenburg(KOBV)
    [Co-operative Library Network, Berlin-Brandenburg]
    Since the spring of 2002, the FES Library has been active in the Kooperativen Bibliotheksverbund Berlin-Brandenburg (KOBV)[Co-operative Library Network, Berlin-Brandenburg]. Via the Network, the Library's entire and up-to-date monograph inventory is indexed nationally and internationally.
    Kooperativer Bibliotheksverbund Berlin-Brandenburg (Website only in german)
  • Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg (SUB Hamburg)
    [State and University Library, Hamburg]
    Within the framework of its DFG spezial subject collection work (national literary supply in Germany by SSGs), the FES Library presents itself on the WEBIS information system, which is managed by the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg (SUB Hamburg) [State and University Library, Hamburg].
    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg (Website only in german)
  • Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn (ULB Bonn)
    [University and State Library, Bonn]
    On a local level, the Library cooperates with the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn (ULB Bonn) [University and State Library, Bonn] by additionally indexing its monographic holdings in their Katalog der Bonner Klinik-, Insituts- und Seminarbibliotheken (BoKIS) [Catalogue of the Bonn Hospital, Institute and Seminar Libraries].
    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn
  • Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB)
    [Union Catalogue of Serials]
    The participation of our Library in the Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB) [Union Catalogue of Serials] dates back to 1986, when the periodicals inventories were made detectable via the ZDB until 1992 (the FES inventories) and 1996 (the DGB inventories). Due to this indexing, some truly unique periodicals inventories became available for research and science.
    More Information.. | Zeitschriftendatenbank (Website only in german)

Cooperations on the topic of "History and Policy of the Labour and Trade Union Movements"

  • Erich-Brost-Stiftung
    [Erich-Brost-Foundation]
    The Library was able to count on the support of the Erich-Brost-Stiftung [Erich Brost Foundation] for a number of projects on the topic of German-Polish cooperation.
    More Information..
  • International Associaton of Labour History Institutions (IALHI)
    The Library's cooperation with the International Association of Labour History Institutions (IALHI) dates back to the early 1970s.
    More Information.. | International Associaton of Labour History Institutions
  • Stiftung Archiv der Parteien und Massenorganisationen der DDR (SAPMO)
    [Foundation Archive of the Parties and Mass Organisations of the GDR]
    The Stiftung Archiv der Parteien und Massenorganisationen der DDR (SAPMO) [Archive of the Parties and Mass Organisations of the GDR Foundation] became a cooperation partner for the FES Library in the 1990s. The two libraries worked together creating the "Bibliographie zur Geschichte der deutschen Arbeiterbewegung" (BizGA) [Bibliography on the History of the German Labour Movement], and they shared the labour of acquiring "grey literature" by political parties and trade unions (SAPMO: North and East Europe).
    Stiftung Archiv der Parteien und Massenorganisationen der DDR (Website only in german)