The UCD - edited by the public library of Düsseldorf - is the union catalogue of the following institutions financed by the City of Düsseldorf :
- Filmmuseum
- Görres-Gymnasium
- Goethe-Museum / Anton- and-Katharina-Kippenberg-Foundation
- Heinrich-Heine-Institut
- Hetjens-Museum - Deutsches Keramikmuseum
- Mahn- und Gedenkstätte der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf
- museum kunst palast
- Restaurierungszentrum der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf - Schenkung Henkel
- Stadtarchiv
- Stadtmuseum
- Stiftung Schloss und Park Benrath
- Theatermuseum / Dumont-Lindemann Archive
Beside these institutions, the Art Academy of Düsseldorf, the Institut Francais Düsseldorf (only publications on art) and the Art Collection of North Rhine-Westphalia took part in the union catalogue until 1992. Because of that, the catalogue contains more than 54,000 bibliographic units of these institutions.
Scope: fine arts, art history, arts and crafts, glass, ceramics, design, architecture, restauration, literature and literary studies with the emphasis on Goethe and Heine, film, theatre and performing arts, history of the city and region of Düsseldorf. Not only German but also international media are intensively collected. To a high degree, these media are grey literature such as exhibition catalogues, leaflets and the like, which get into the library stocks because of the international exchange activities of the cultural institutions.
Searchable holdings (1/2014): approximaltely 352,000 bibliographic units.
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