![]() ![]() Today the department maintains the Specialised Information Service Asia ( Fachinformationsdienst Asien or FID Asien). Under a funding scheme by the German Research Foundation ( Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft or DFG) the department has been responsible for building and maintaining the collection as well as making it accessible to the larger Asian Studies research community nationwide since 1951. The numbers of pre-modern Japanese manuscripts and printed materials in the East Asia Department of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Berlin State Library) seem rather modest when compared with the large collection of East Asian materials currently held by the department, which now exceeds one million volumes, making it one of the largest collections in Europe. ![]() Christian DUNKEL (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) ![]()
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