“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.

The Leo Baeck Institute’s extensive periodicals collection was an integral part of LBI’s original collection and was built up from scratch by the Institute's founders in the post-war era. The periodicals collection was first described by Max Kreutzberger in the Institute's earliest published catalog issued in 1970. Kreutzberger wrote that …

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.

During the last few years, the library of the Leo Baeck Institute received several book donations as a result of restitution projects in German libraries.

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The LBI works with other libraries and consortia to integrate our collections into their search portals so that they are discoverable in context with other similar materials.

The LBI Library has in its collection hundreds of Jewish calendars published from as early as 1754 to the 21st century.

In 2013, the Central and Regional Library of Berlin (ZLB) restituted 40 volumes from biochemist Prof. Carl Neuberg’s former library. His granddaughters transfered them to the library of the LBI NY.