A colleague from Hannover, Mr Hauschke, resume his perspective of professional communication in librarianship in Germany in a swedish blog. In my opinion he forgets the various twittering librarians, much more than blogging german librarians. Its a network, that might be better than the single librarian bloggers. And also on facebook there are libriarans, which communicate about their profession …
February 5, 2011
May 8, 2010
This Week in Libraries
Now, let me give this time not library news from Germany, but from the Netherlands: If you like videos and panel discussions, please try “this week in libraries” and have fun! The weekly published strip is in English, hosted on Vimeo. In the fourth edition of some American protagonists of Library 2.0 can be seen: Helen Blowers, Michael Stephens and David Lee King.
December 26, 2009
State of the Art: Information Literacy
Two colleages from Erfurt and Munich wrote a report for the International Federation of Library Associations:
Information literacy : state of the art report Germany / Heike vom Orde ; Franziska Wein. IFLA Standing of Information Literacy Section, 2009.
June 26, 2009
A visitor from U.S.A. at Leipzig LIS university for applied science
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”.
July 29, 2008
May 4, 2008
General informations about german libraries
The “Goethe-Institut” in Munic is the german institution for external cultural relations. It presents at his homepage general informations about german libraries and the general themes of german librarianship. There you can find schedules of conferences, topics of professional discussion, dossiers (for example about digitalisation), information about projects and links.