Ligue des Bibliothèques Europeènnes de Recherche, Groupe des Cartothécaires de LIBER

NATIONAL PROGRESS REPORT OF FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY 1988-1990

Mapcurator Group
The Mapcurator Group within the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kartographie met twice, with about 25 participants, during the period in question. These meetings functioned as pre-conferences to the Germans Cartographer's Conventions (Deutscher Kartographentag). In the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Wien, September 1989, together with the Austrian Mapcurators Group, the meeting provided an opportunity of getting acquainted with the work of the Austrian colleagues and to visit the Vienna map collections. In May 1990 the meeting took place in the University Library Göttingen. The focus was on problems of cataloguing and database research. Topics from the agenda are e.g. presentation of the cataloguing project of the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft; online search in the map catalogue of the ETH-Library in Zürich, which tested the options of future supra-regional cooperation

Cataloguing
The cataloguing project of the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft for the Cataloguing of Relevant Old Maps until 1850, which started in 1985, was completed in autumn 1990. It has been a cooperative effort of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München, the Niedersächsischen Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Göttingen, and the Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin. The resulting ca. 120,000 map records will be part of a data-file (under the IBAS-system) in Berlin.
The Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg started 1989 with online cataloguing of the maps (IBAS- system).
The Geheime Staatsarchiv in Berlin published another volume of the catalogues of its map-holdings (Allgemeine Kartensammlung. Bearb. von W. Bliss. 1988)

Acquisitions
Some interesting donations to the Map Department of the Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz have to be reported. The Georg Westermann Publishers, Braunschweig have donated the part of the cartographic archives that survived World War II with maps, atlases and reference books. Furthermore it received the map archives of the 'Continental Gummiwerke', Hannover, a publisher of road maps, atlases and city plans from 1946-1952. Holdings of the former 'Reichsamt für Landesaufnahme' were presented by its successor, the 'lnstitut für Angewandte Geodäsie'. There are, among others, 235 copper plates of the old Karte des Deutschen Reiches t:100,000 and the 'Topographische Übersichtskarte 1:200,000.

Exhibitions
An exhibition of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München Philipp Apian und die Kartographie der Renaissance commemorates the 400th anniversary of the death of the German cartographer Philipp Apian (1531-1589).
The 160th anniversary of the founding of the GeselIschaft fiir Erdkunde zu Berlin occasioned an exhibit and a symposium on Daniel Gottlob Reymann (1759-1837) und die topographischen Übersichtskarten des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts

. Several exhibitions, mainly on regional cartography, presented selections from the holdings of the respective institutions: Landesbibliothek und Generallandesarchiv in Karlsruhe: Der Neckar in alten Karten (The Neckar river in old maps, with catalogue); Landesarchiv, Landesbibliothek und Museum fiir Naturkunde in Oldenburg: Oldenburg und das Wasser (Oldenburg and the water, with catalogue); Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen: Thematischen Karten in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart (Thematical maps -past and present, with leaflet); Universitätsbibliothek Münster: Die Niederlande in alten Karten und Ansichten (The Netherlands in old maps and views, with catalogue ).
The Map Department of the Staatsbibliothek Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz together with a Vienna private collection prepared an exhibition focussing on old globes: Globus und Karte als Modell von Erde und Raum (with catalogue). This provided the opportunity to present the department's own collection which was re-built after World War II.

Publications
Vol. 16 of Bibliographia Cartographica has been published in summer 1990 with new contents and switching to EDP.
As contributions to the preservation of originals two facsimile editions are to be mentioned: The Portolan Atlas of Antonio Millo, 1586 (Weinheim, VCH Verlag, 1988); Die Landesaufnahme des Amtes Pfalz-Zweibnlcken des Tilemann Stella, 1564 (Ouellen zur Geschichte der deutschen Kartographie, Vol. 5; Lüineburg, Verlag Nordostdeutsches Kulturwerk, 1989).
Within the series of calendars Old Maps/Alte Karten, the 1989 calendar of 'Te Neues verlag' portrays the Map Department of the Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
The 'Friends of Cartography of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz' have been issuing an annual Mitteilungs- blatt containing news from tbe field, especially the bistory of cartograpby, and on activities, as well as notes of the Map Department of the Staatsbibliothek.

Lothar Zögner, Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Map Department