The Georg Eckert Institute was established by the federal state of Lower Saxony in 1975 with a mandate to carry out international research into textbooks and to develop recommendations for education policy-makers and publishing houses. The history of the Institute, however, can be traced back to 1951, when Georg Eckert founded the International Institute for Textbook Improvement at the Kant Teacher Training College in Braunschweig, with the aim of strengthening international understanding. The textbook library was at the core of this work from the outset. The research library at the GEI today...