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The German Central Library for the Blind ((ドイツ語:Deutsche Zentralbücherei für Blinde)), abbreviated DZB, is a public library for the visually impaired located in the city of Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. Its collection of 72,300 titles is amongst the largest in the German speaking countries.〔 The institution consists of a lending library, a publishing house, and a research center for barrier-free communication. It also has production facilities for braille books, audiobooks, and braille music. The DZB publishes about 250 new titles annually.〔(The DZB: About Us ). Leipzig: DZB, 2011. Retrieved 08-Aug-2012〕 Founded in 1894, the DZB is the oldest library for the blind in Germany.〔Dagmar Giersberg: (Online "All Ears and within Reach – The German Central Library for the Blind in Leipzig." ) Bonn: Goethe Institute, November 2006. Retrieved 08-Aug-2012〕 ==History== A private association, the Society for the Procurement of Large-print Books and Work Opportunities for the Blind ((ドイツ語:Verein zur Beschaffung von Hochdruckschriften und Arbeitsgelegenheit für Blinde zu Leipzig)), was established in Leipzig in 1894 to provide blind persons with literature and employment.〔("A Piece of History" ), Leipzig: DZB, 2011. Retrieved 08-Aug-2012〕 It was set up in a bookseller's house and grew into the first library for blind persons in the German Empire. Soon afterward the society established its own publishing house and printing press. A charitable foundation, the ''Verein zur Förderung der Deutschen Zentralbücherei für Blinde'', was established in 1916 to support and promote the library. By this time over 5,000 braille volumes were available and it had 1,200 regular users.〔("Geschichte der DZB" ), Leipzig: DZB, 2011. Retrieved 08-Aug-2012〕 Following World War I, the number of users rose sharply and by 1926 the DZB had 3,500 users. The Great Depression forced the library into a rigid austerity, resulting in budget cuts and layoffs. In 1935 the DZB moved into the commercial publishing house ''Druckhaus Klepzig'' on the Täubchenweg in Leipzig. This building was later destroyed in an Allied bombing raid in December 1943 and over 30,000 of the library's books were lost. What little remained of the collection was set up at an alternative site at Döbeln in 1944.〔 In the immediate aftermath of World War II the DZB moved to new quarters on the Weißenfelser Straße with a collection of 1,802 books. Through a decision of the provincial government on 7 November 1946 the library was declared a public institution. By 1949 the library's collection had reached 10,000 volumes. In 1952 DZB came under the auspices of the East German Ministry of Education and in 1955 it was subject to the Ministry of Culture. In 1954 the library moved into the building still in use today in Gustav-Adolf-Straße (Gustavus Adolphus Street).〔 Following German reunification the DZB became an agency of the State Ministry of Science and Arts of the new Free State of Saxony.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「German Central Library for the Blind」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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