Acquisition statistics

From the start of the project in 1990 until 2010, the acquiring libraries reached the following numbers:

Volumes	173.475
Resources spent (in EUR)	23.228.073

Moreover and according to the legal mandate of the DNB, the annual growth of the DNB's collection means also a growth for the SDD. This happened in addition to retrospective acquisitions and acquisitions for the exile collections which are already included in the numbers given above. For further information regarding the collection and the annual growth of the DNB, please see http://www.dnb.de.