Thanks to a generous grant of The Cahnman Foundation, the LBI Library is creating virtual inventories of three complete private German-Jewish libraries.

LBI Library staff Renate Evers, Ginger Barna, Tracey Felder and Lauren Paustian engaged with current issues and developments in librarianship at several conferences in 2015 and 2016.

“Nothing is as old as yesterday’s newspaper,” goes the old bromide. Many of the newspapers preserved in the collections of the LBI are in fact more than a century old, and few other media in the library world show the ravages of time like newspapers, which were practically designed to …

Renate Evers, Director of Collections at LBI, took the opportunity to visit the 18th Constance Book Fair.

Der Anfang der deutsch-jüdischen Presse Mendelssohn's Ha-Meassef (Der Sammler) (1783-1811) sollte die deutschen Juden für ihre Emanzipation ausbilden. LBI Library, B91. Deutsche Israelitische Zeitung (1884–1938), begründet von Seligmann Meyer, wurde weltweit von deutsch-sprachigen Orthodoxen Juden gelesen. LBI Library, B66. Die Presse der Reformbewegung und der Orthodoxie Periodika aus der neunzehnten …

The Leo Baeck Institute library has a large collection of German language literature from the Weimar era. These are just a small selection of books with striking cover illustrations.

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In 2011, the Library began a project to digitize the Library's periodical collection in order to increase access while at the same time preserving the original volumes—over 300 are now online.

The Leo Baeck Institute is continually making its collections more accessible by digitizing important parts of its collections.

A chronological tour of the Haggadot in the LBI Library's rare book collection.