Report on the State of Libraries in Germany

The “Report on the Situation of Libraries 2016/17” is now also available online in English. The seven demands by the Deutsche Bibliotheksverband here offer an insight into current topics that are not only important for the German library scene. To strengthen demands for libraries as central places of the city society, to integrate them into…

Library, information and book science portal “b2i”

“The portal b2i provides a central access to resources from the fields of Library, Book and Information Studies. It is aimed at everyone who is interested from the fields of science, study and practice. The portal provides you as user with a central research access (meta search). With one query you can search simultaneously in…

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…