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.
July 25, 2009
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.
