The “Spiegel” (= mirror) is a leading German magazine with an international part in English. If you search in this part – for example with the item “library” -, you will get some articles relating libraries in Germany.
December 30, 2011
December 11, 2011
The future of research infrastructures: a look at Germany
Sebastian wrote in the IFLA Social Science Libraries Blog about the changing research infrastructures in Germany.
November 30, 2011
SWIB11 SEMANTIC WEB IN LIBRARIES
“A rising number of actors in librarianship and its related fields are experimenting with Semantic Web technologies and Linked Open Data (LOD). The LOD cloud as a whole grew by 300% in 2010, whereas the amount of data relevant for libraries grew by nearly 1000%. For many, the question now arises how to integrate their holdings into the LOD cloud and how to embed externally provided LOD data into their own applications, adding value through cross-domain linking. The first conference day will focus on the corresponding infrastructure requirements.
At the same time, the principles and workflows of traditional scholarly communication and publication are under scrutiny with a view to a consistently web-based data and service infrastructure comprising the entire research and publication process. Concepts like “nano-publications”, “Semantic Publishing”, “Open Data”, “Enhanced Publications” or “Research Objects” mark the re-orientation of academic work, away from monolithic, comparatively unflexible and barely interlinked reference points towards a distributed, comparatively granular data infrastructure which is continuously accessible to researchers and into which their contributions recognizably return. These developments will be discussed on the second day of the conference.
For the first time we offer workshops and tutorials on the day before the main conference, providing introductions into Linked Open Data for newcomers and practice-oriented discussion of selected problems.
The conference will again – as in 2009 and 2010 – be organised by the North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Centre (hbz), Cologne, and the German National Library of Economics – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (ZBW), Kiel and Hamburg.”Informations about the conference can be found on the homepage, on twitter and a href=”http://www.bib-info.de/www.livestream.com/swib” target=”_blank”>via Stream (29th and 30th november ca. 9 – 17.30 h a.m.).
October 14, 2011
Free bookshelves in Germany
SFgate, an online platform of San Francisco Chronicle, reports about the public bookshelves in Germany.
August 23, 2011
August 15, 2011
De Gruyter Saur and IFLA: a new Open Access agreement
In a common effort to promote the work of IFLA, De Gruyter Saur is making sixteen IFLA Publications available in Open Access over its online platform Reference Global.
IFLA Publications available in Open Access from August 2011:
IP 147 – IFLA Public Library Service Guidelines (2010)
Ed. by Christie Koontz & Barbara Gubbin
IP 144 – Social Science Libraries (2010)
Ed. by Steve W. Witt & Lynne M. Rudasill
IP 141 – The History and Cultural Heritage of Chinese Calligraphy, Printing and Library Work (2010)
Ed. by Susan M. Allen, Lin Zuzao, Cheng Xiaolan, & Jan Bos
IP 140 – Guidelines for Legislative Libraries (2009)
Ed. by Keith Cuninghame
IP 139 – Strategies for Regenerating the Library and Information Profession (2009)
Ed. by Jana Varlejs & Graham Walton
IP 138 – Library Statistics for the Twenty-First Century World (2009)
Ed. by Michael Heaney
IP 136/137 – Global Library and Information Science (2009)
Ed. by Ismail Abdullahi
IP 134 – Libraries and Information Services towards the Attainment of the UN Millennium Development Goals (2008)
Ed. by Benson Njobvu & Sjoerd Koopman
IP 132 – Managing Technologies and Automated Library Systems in Developing Countries: Open Source vs Commercial Options (2008)
Ed. by Bernard Dione & Réjean Savard
IP 127 – Measuring Quality (2007)
Ed. by Roswitha Poll & Peter te Boekhorst
IP 126 – Continuing Professional Development: Pathways to Leadership in the Library and Information World (2007)
Ed. by Ann Ritchie & Clare Walker
IP 123 – Changing Roles of NGOs in the Creation, Storage, and Dissemination of Information in Developing Countries (2006)
Ed. by Steve W. Witt
IP 120/121 – Management, Marketing and Promotion of Library Services Based on Statistics, Analyses and Evaluation (2006)
Ed. by Trine Kolderup Flaten
IP 10 – IFLA’s First Fifty Years (1977)
Ed. by Willem R. H. Koops & Joachim Wieder
August 13, 2011
“World Library and Information Congress”
IFLA 2011 has already begun, but just today is the opening sessin. Yesterday there were work sessions of units and groups.
There is also an “activity stream”, an aggregator for all the weblog entries, tweets and images.
June 5, 2011
Cycling Conference and Seminar
Today, the cycling unconference for libraries will arrive at Berlin. The tour, that began in Copenhagen on 28th may is documentated in several videos on its homepage Cycling for libraries.
Tomorrow, there will be a seminar from 9 a.m. to 16 p.m. and in the evening a social evening. Just see at the Homepage “Berlin Seminar”, first in German, than in English.
May 28, 2011
Cycling for libraries, day 1
Here you can see the video: http://www.kirjastokaista.fi/video/9565/cycling%20for%20libraries,%20day%201/?cat=
Other videos will come shure!
Cycling for libraries is a politically and economically independent international unconference and a bicycle tour starting from Copenhagen, Denmark to Berlin, Germany May 28. –June 6. 2011. The event takes place for the first time in 2011 in cooperation with the German, Danish and Finnish library professionals. The purpose of the Cycling for libraries is to gather a group of 100 library professionals all around the world together to cycle a total of approximately 650 kilometers and to discuss the strategic issues of the library field in seminars along the route. Cycling for libraries is an independent event, not organized by any existing formal organization. It is made possible by a sovereign, international network of library enthusiasts.
“Checkliste” No. 32: Setting up a Library
The Commission for One-Person Librarians of the German librarian and information professional association BIB (“Berufsverband Information Bibliothek) published the first “checklist” in English. 31 working papers are yet published in German.
Its a translation form Martha Baker of Anthea J. Merkles checklist, published in German in 2004, about setting up a one-person library. From the preface:
“The problems to be solved and the tasks to be accomplished are the same in all cases: establish a professional administration, catalog a media collection, and create the necessary structures!”
