KA1/4rschners Musiker-Handbuch (KA1/4rschner's German Music Handbook), recording some 12,000 living music professionals from the world of serious music, comprises composers, conductors, soloists, singers and music professors who work predominantly within the German-language area. Individual entries contain biographical particulars, a contact address, place and date of birth as well as brief details on artistic career and work, membership in ensembles, awards, major works and/or recordings. The appendix provides an index of 3,000 important addresses in the music scene: orchestras and ensembles, agencies and music publishers complete with contacts and main focus of publishing, festivals and training centres, as well as competitions with entry conditions and prize money. An index of professions simplifies searches.

This directory lists education institutions world-wide where professional education and training programmes in the field of library, archive and information science are carried out at a tertiary level of education or higher. More than ten years after the publication of the last edition, this up-to-date reference source includes more than 900 universities and other institutions, and more than 1.500 relevant programmes. Entries provide contact information as well as details such as statistical information, tuition fees, admission requirements, programmes' contents.