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: This support was and is carried out by means of staff appropriations and equipment by

• supporting the Library's collection activities within the area of "grey literature by political parties and trade unions" on a national an international level (Western and Southern Europe, the USA, Canada, as well as developing countries besides Germany, Austria, and Switzerland). The DFG did not only finance staff appropriations (i.e. the creation and temporary financing of international specialist portfolios), but also regular trips to acquire materials in situ (for direct acquisition, and to maintain relations),
• participation of the Library in building up the Virtuellen Fachbibliothek Sozialwissenschaften [Virtual Specialised Library of the Social Science] in cooperation with the IZ Sozialwissenschaften [Social Science Information Center], the USB Köln [University and State Library of Cologne] and the WZ Berlin [Social Science Research Center Berlin],
• participation of the Library in the DFG project "virtual regionalisation of data stocks" with the virtual specialised libraries
• Niederländischer Kulturkreis, Niederlande, Flandern
  [Netherlandic Culture, the Netherlands, Flanders]
• Osteuropa
  [East Europe]
• Vorderer Orient + Nordafrika (MENALIB)
  [Middle East and North Africa]
• Ibero-Amerika + Spanien + Portugal (cibera)
  [Latin America + Spain + Portugal]
• Anglo-Amerikanischer Kulturraum(VL-AAC)
  [Anglo-American Culture],
• participation in Clio-Online (reviews for the "Archiv für Sozialgeschichte" ["Social History Archive"])
• promotion of the microfilming of historically valuable newspaper inventories,
• promotion of the incorporation of the Library's periodicals inventories in the Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB) [Union Catalogue of Serials]
• promotion of the incorporation/indexing of the periodicals inventories of the Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbund (DGB) [German Trade Union Federation] Library
• promotion of the incorporation/indexing of the "grey literature" (monographs) of the Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbund (DGB)[German Trade Union Federation] and the Deutsche Angestelltengewerkschaft (DAG) [German Employees' Union], and
• promotion of individual projects, such as
• Digitization of the "Sozialdemokratischer Pressedienst 1946 - 1995" [Social Democratic Press Releases 1946 - 1995]
• Digitization of the "Sozialdemokratische Pressemitteilungen 1958 - 1998" [Social Democratic Press Statements 1958 - 1998]
• Digitization of the "Programmatische Dokumente der deutschen Sozialdemokratie und Gewerkschaftsbewegung von den Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart" [Programmatic Documents of the German Social Democratic and Trade Union Movements from their beginnings to the Present](under construction)

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