Library News from Germany

July 25, 2009

German library ranking – the BIX

Its now for the tenth year, that the library ranking for Germany is made for the Public Libraries and the sixth, that Scientific Libraries are ranked. The Label of this ranking is “Bibliotheksindex” or BIX, an its a instrument, that is made on the fundament of many indicators. The libraries are sorted in types (relating to Scientific Libraries) or population of town (Public Libraries). But I must’nt say much about the instrument, because the coordinator of the organizations, that are maintaining the BIX, the Kompetenznetzwerk, has written an introduction to BIX on eleven pages as PDF-File.

February 22, 2009

About the Third Presidential Meeting

Filed under: conferences — Tags: , , , , , — jplie @ 16:35

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’.

June 13, 2008

Libraries on the Agenda

Filed under: marketing — Tags: , , , , — jplie @ 17:36

A student of the Fachhochschule (applied university) Potsdam maintains a weblog in English with the title “Libraries on the Agenda”:

This blog offers observed information about trends and developments in LIS world

For example the article of June 5th about the topic “If it’s not in the Internet it does not exist” …

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