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Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden

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In the location's words:

The Unter den Linden building has been in use as a library since 1914. It was badly damaged during the Second World War and the central domed reading room was hit by bombs. The war damage was only partially repaired and the central reading room was demolished in 1975. Not visible from the outside, the library had lost its functional and substantive center.

A completely new chapter in the library's history was opened in 1992 when the two large library locations, Potsdamer Straße and Unter den Linden, were merged into one library with two locations as the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz:

In 1998, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation decided that the library as a whole would permanently use its two locations. This was also associated with a future-proof accommodation and utilization concept, the realization of which entailed and continues to entail enormous construction activity:

The Unter den Linden building was completely renovated and modernized.
The old part of the building had to be modernized and equipped with new IT and digitization systems.
At the same time, a new general reading room and other new buildings were erected on the site of the reading room lost during the war.
A new repository was also built in Friedrichshagen .