Commemorative stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1976 - 25 Pfennig

Leipziger Herbstmesse 1976 At the Leipzig Autumn Fair in 1976, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic issues two multicolored special postage stamps. Leipzig Autumn Fair 1976 25-pfennig value: German Library, Leipzig In the book and trade fair city of Leipzig in 1912, the German Library was founded. The building, built from 1914 to 1916, was expanded twice in the later decades. Its architecture leaves a lasting impression on the domestic and foreign visitors. The Deutsche Bücherei has been collecting German-language literature from all over the world since 1913. This literature, which are books, magazines, atlases, music, dissertations, maps, patents, but also standards, graphic sheets and phonograms. Furthermore, foreign-language translations of German-language works and foreign-language Germanica will be collected. Furthermore, the German Library Depot Library for the publications of the UN and UNESCO and other international organizations and associations. The total stock of the library is over six million bibliographic units. The mentioned literature is opened up in bibliographies. For German-language literature, the Deutsche Bücherei has the function of a bibliographic information center, and it performs the function of the central guidance and coordination facility for bibliography and bibliographic work in the GDR. As a public scientific reference library of the GDR, the German Library serves the research and teaching, the study and the practice and maintains the cultural heritage. In this respect, the "collection of exile literature 1933 to 1945" is particularly noteworthy, with 20,000 objects among the most important international of its kind. The total stock is opened up by three main catalogs - alphabetical catalog, subject catalog, publisher and institution catalog - and some special catalogs. The activities of the library include a comprehensive information and information, the study of literature are seven reading rooms. The Deutsche Bücherei publishes its own publications and informs the public about its tasks and activities through the press, lectures and guided tours. Exhibitions in the library, in the GDR and abroad inform about the library's scientific and cultural policy concerns, especially about the special collections under which the German Book and Writing Museum, founded in 1884, stands out, comprehensively including the material on the history of books, writing and Collects and develops all kinds of writing materials of all times and peoples in scientific, artistic and technical terms. Especially through this department, the Deutsche Bücherei is closely connected with the development of book art in the GDR and abroad. So she will be active for the International Book Art Exhibition (iba) Leipzig 1977.