Dale S. Askey is Web Development Librarian of K-State Libraries in Kansas. At the moment, he is Visiting professor, electronic publishing and multimedia at the Hochschule für Wirtschaft, Technik und Kultur, Leipzig, Germany. Now he blogs at “Eintauchen” (= dunking) about his experiences in Germany and in german librarianship. But he still has relations to german librarianship, for example he is member of the advisory board of the leading library magazine “BuB – Forum for Library and Information”.
June 26, 2009
May 16, 2009
Bibcamp Stuttgart II
Yesterday and today, the second bibcamp in Germany took place in Stuttgart. On the platform of the unconference you can find a documentation of the several reports on twitter, blogs and of photos. 40 – 50 library 2.0-activists participated at the conference and discussed applications, programs, strategies and possibilities under the different circumstances. For example, mobile services are in the U.S.A. common. In Germany we are in the beginnings to customize our services to end user applications like hand helds, PDAs and other. Because of this, it was a good announcement, that the dean of LIS faculty of the “Hochschule der Medien” (Stuttgart Univ. of Applied Sciences in Media) said, that in autumn a new Bachelor (of Sc.) degree programme will be implemented on the field of “Mobile Media”
The next bibcamp will be at 2010 in Hannover!
May 8, 2009
Bibcamp Stuttgart
In one week the second Bibcamp will take place in Stuttgart. The ca. 50 participants will create a programme of their own. Just consult the social forum of the Bibcamp (in German) to see members and themes.
April 4, 2009
German Librarians and Libraries are twittering
The use of Twitter, a well known microblogging service, spreads around the library 2.0 community in Germany. Several colleagues and libraries and even organizations are twittering about their work and leisure. So, if you are curious, what german librarians have to say in short, you can find an overview (still growing) at a page of LIS Wiki. Even a librarian association, the Berufsverband Information Bibliothek, has a twitter account.
February 22, 2009
About the Third Presidential Meeting
Stuart Hamilton, Senior Policy Advisor of IFLA Headquarts, wrote in his Blog February 18th ff. over the Third IFLA Presidential Meeting at Berlin. The conference programme was entitled ‘Access to Knowledge: Networking Libraries’.
January 15, 2009
An index of library journals at “Fundgrube Internet” of BIB
The “Fundgrube Internet”, that means “treasure trove internet” is an web index of useful links for librarians. You’ll find it at the homepage of the “Berufsverband Information Bibliothek”, translated: “Association Information Library”. Some 400 links to library resources are listed, from which more than 130 links are to library journals. There are two categries, the first for german library journals (30 links) and the second is for international journals (at the moment 101 links). So, if you are searching especially for journals in English, the index could be helpful for this purpose.
December 10, 2008
The third Presidential Meeting of Mrs. Lux
Since the presidency of Mrs. Claudia Lux 2007-2009 three Presidential Meetings are held (No. 1-2) and planned (No. 3 in 2009). The third will be at 19/20th february 2009 and the program is published yet under the title “Access to Knowledge: Networking Libraries.
The Presidential Meetings are well documented, even if its noted in German, the keynotes are in English.
September 17, 2008
Research Explorer – database about institutions in Germany
Are you searching for scientific institutions in Germany? Now the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and Deutscher Akademischer Auslandsdienst (DAAD) have introduced a database of scientific institutiones in Germany with the title Research Explorer. Search is very easy, with either subject or geographic or combined search.
September 8, 2008
DBS – German Library Statistics
The “Deutsche Bibliotheksstatistik (DBS)” – German Library Statistics is a data collection of 9.000 german libraries since 1974. Bruno Bauer, a librarian from Vienna, interviewed Ronald M. Schmidt, sustainer of the database at hbz, the regional academic library centre of Nordrhein-Westfalen (federal state of Germany). In the weblog medinfo you can find an abstract of the interview in English.
You can find the data 1999 until 2007 in an overview at hbz, especially with overall tables of the German Library Statistics, that contain main facts of Public and Academic Libraries in German and English.
