State bibliography
What is a state bibliography?
State or regional bibliographies are records of literary references about a specific area, its places, municipals und related personalities. They document historic and contemporary literature from every subject area. The significance of the state bibliography remains in the cataloguing of essays and articles from newspapers, journals, magazines and other collections which are not categorised individually in most library catalogues.
What is the state bibliography of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern?
The aim of the state bibliography Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is to record and provide access to literature relating to the geography, history and institutions of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. This is done through a database in the GBV. Every title reference of the state bibliography can be found in the catalogue of the GBV.
As of January 2022 the database is comprised of 444,917 entries about Mecklenburg and Vorpommern; additions and updates are being made daily. Records are being made with the current physical boarders of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in mind. Due to the historic development, the recording of literature for the state library concerning Vorpommern started not until 1945. There is no interruption in the timeline relating to Mecklenburg.
The state bibliography Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is integrated into the Virtual German State Bibliography.
The Virtual German State Bibliography is a meta-search-interface for all state bibliographies of the 16 German federal states. Search requests are simultaneously send to multiple state bibliographies and the results are shown in individual lists.