The Bavarian Library Network (german: Bibliotheksverbund Bayern, abbreviated BVB) is a

library association The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, since 2017 branded CILIP: The library and information association (pronounced ), is a professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge management, knowle ...

of more than 150

academic libraries An academic library is a library that is attached to a higher education institution and serves two complementary purposes: to support the curriculum and the research of the university faculty and students. It is unknown how many academic librar ...

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

, Germany. It operates a

union catalog A union catalog is a combined library catalog describing the collections of a number of libraries. Union catalogs have been created in a range of media, including book format, microform, cards and more recently, networked electronic databases. Pr ...

, the Bavarian Union Catalog. Based in Munich, it is one of the main library consortia in Germany, which lacks a singular, centralized institution.

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* {{authority control Library associations Bavarian State Library Organisations based in Munich Organizations established in the 1970s