The USTC recently co-hosted a workshop at the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, designed to raise interest in a systematic survey of 16th century German broadsheets. The decision of the German National Bibliography, the VD 16, to exclude broadsheet items, has created the most significant obstacle to comprehensive coverage of 16th century publishing in the USTC. In advance of our launch in 2011, the USTC team gathered together records for some 3,000 German broadsheets, including such iconic items as Luther’s 95 theses. But many thousands more remain to be discovered or described in German libraries, archives and museums. …
Ganzer Beitrag http://www.ustc.ac.uk/?p=1055