International Coalition of Library Consortia

Gemeinsamer Bibliotheks Verbund
GBV
Website: http://www.brzn.de/

Verbundzentrale des GBV (VZG)
Postfach 2932
D-37070 Göttingen, Germany

Phone
Fax

Reiner Diedrichs
Executive Director
diedrichs@gbv.de

Barbara Block
Library Support
block@gbv.de

Heinrich Achenbach
System and Network Services
achenbach@gbv.de

Number of office staff: 15


Brief description

GBV is the Common Library Network of the German Federal States Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein and Thüringen. The head office of the GBV (VZG) is situated in Göttingen.

All University, College and government sponsored research libraries within the territory of the participating federal states as well as the Staatsbibliothek Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SBB-PK), many public libraries and special libraries are members of the GBV.

The GBV is a cataloguing and service-oriented network of more than 450 academic, public and research institute libraries within the territory of the GBV. However, other institutions and libraries are welcome to participate actively in this common library network.

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