Competence through cooperation

The Centre for Book Studies: Book Research – Publishing Economics – Digital Media is intended to be a place of international and interdisciplinary communication and cooperation in research and teaching. The careful concentration of resources in research and teaching aims to facilitate the cooperative development of international, interdisciplinary and innovative research programmes along with the acquisition of external funding, and to promote variety and richness in teaching programmes. In recent years, cooperation with non-university institutions has also been intensified and the teaching programme has been visibly extended.

Regular cooperation (e.g. in seminars) takes place with the Munich Literature House, with the City Library and the Munich Literature Archive, with the German Museum and with the International Youth Library in Munich. The close cooperation with the International Youth Library in particular, the largest international research institution in the world for children’s and youth books, has led to an extension and strengthening of the teaching programme in the field of children’s and youth literature. Furthermore, the book studies programme in Munich offers block seminars, for example in the German Book and Text Museum Leipzig in connection with student excursions or occasionally with specialist conferences relevant to the discipline.