Bibliotheks- und Informationspraxis

This reliable volume provides information specialists with an up-to-date introduction to using information resources. Alongside the theoretical principles, it selects about 400 general and specialist information resources and describes their content, functions, and significance. It thus conveys basic knowledge about information resources that can be used directly in practice.

Trying to do justice to society’s diversity is a challenge for public libraries. This volume provides an overview of the development of strategic and anti-discrimination organizations and of the work being done in the fields of events and inventory to disseminate information in a way that is sensitive to diversity. It also presents a range of practical examples form the program "360° – Fund for Cultures in the New Urban Society."

This edited volume deals with issues relating to the quality of subject cataloging in the digital age, where heterogenous articles from different processes meet, and attempts to define important quality standards. Topics range from metadata and the cataloging policies of the German National Library, the GND, and the head offices of the German library association, to the presentation of a range of different projects, such as QURATOR and SoNAR.

Libraries are places that evolve over time and are not just places of reading and knowledge acquisition, but also of writing. This volume describes the conditions of contemporary scholarly work, research, and studying in libraries. It uses writing scenarios to systematically and precisely portray the relationship between academic writing in the context of the library and information literacy.

Alongside the general and theoretical principles of information ethics and library ethics, this volume discusses ethical conflicts and dilemmas in professional library and information practice. Academically informed statements on information ethics and library ethics are fundamental to the value-based standardization of library work and are helpful for making ethically sound decisions in professional practice.

The art history concept of curation has recently been adopted as a new paradigm for libraries. Libraries function as curators by collecting materials, making them available and presenting them, as well as in their choice of interior design. Library users can also become curators or content creators by participating in library activities such as acquisitions, catalogue contributions, cataloguing, presenting, program development and library design.

This is the first German-language publication discussing dissertations and theses in library and information science that engage systematically and critically with the DIN ISO 690 standard (Information and documentation – Guidelines for bibliographic references and citations to information resources). All examples discussed come from the field of LIS.

This book comprehensively presents library systems in Romance cultures (Iberian, Gallic, Italian, and Balkan Romance cultures), including lands and regions outside Europe (such as Latin America, Africa, and the Caribbean). The work addresses numerous themes, including historical developments, the status quo, networking, library systems and typologies, finances, support mechanisms, education, and job profiles.

This introduction to the history of the book focuses on 19^th and 20^th century Europe. It primarily covers materials most often dealt with by library staff. The discussion is couched in general history, especially cultural history. It covers in detail issues related to older books, such as the preservation of collections.

The book presents production sequences for the digitization in German-language library collections. It focuses on retro-digitization as well as recent developments (e.g. electronic depository copies), tools used in planning (e.g. crowdsourcing tools), and current trends in archiving and digital handwriting recognition. The authors are specialists and managers in the field of digitization.

These guidelines for academic internet research are custom-tailored for the needs of Slavic studies specialists. The first part of the book describes the marketplace for academic information (e.g. information strategies, resource types, search categories, and search engines). The second part examines online information resources from fourteen Slavic nations. Researchers can rest assured that all relevant sources have been covered.

This volume presents the information resources that are crucial for effectively working with historical collections in libraries. These are important for libraries’ treatment of historical collections, as well as their academic use by students and lecturers in various historical disciplines, particularly philology and history.

This book imparts a basic practical understanding of organization, processes, and essential practices for the preservation of collections in libraries. It focuses on current issues surrounding digital-centric work as well as the combined consideration of collection conservation and digital preservation.

This work offers the first systematic treatment of library didactics, laying a solid foundation for the educational activities of librarians. It presents building blocks for didactic work in libraries and guidelines for selected areas of library education in order to assist with the day-to-day promotion of information competency

Today’s libraries have the mission of educating society, and are intended to reflect social diversity as well as promote greater integration. Beyond presenting the status of how libraries are meeting this challenge today, this volume presents a scientifically founded analysis of current deficits, thereby suggesting starting points for more sustainable, better integrated library management.

The networking of information in order to generate knowledge was the original context in which the internet arose. Encompassing various uses, the internet is a form of infrastructure that relies on knowledge practices. This infrastructure and the law surrounding it are the subject of this book, which is directed primarily at students of library and information science, as well as the employees of information institutions.

This volume uses practical examples to present different technological options for modeling and representing knowledge in knowledge-based organizations (universities, research institutes, and educational institutions), and also in business enterprises. Examples of good practice and successful real-life application scenarios offer readers a knowledge resource plus a guide for realizing their own projects.

This volume presents the prison library system in Germany and around the world. Besides describing the history of prison libraries, this book provides for the first time a comprehensive summary of the legal foundations and the range of library services available for people in prison.

This book presents basic information about working with classification systems in libraries. It contains practical introductions, written by highly experienced users, to the most important classification systems used in the German-speaking world as well as essays on basic issues that transcend individual classification systems. The work is intended for students of library and information science as well as individuals working in libraries and other institutions who are personally involved in conducting classification or who wish to access data stored in classification systems.

This book examines modern library use, focusing on the needs of the customer. It covers the storage and presentation of classical holdings as well as digital media. It also addresses the general question of information competency and new options for delivering information. The advent of libraries on Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 platforms with regard to usability, information content, and specific benefits and risks are additionally considered.

This book is an introduction to the subjects of linked data, open data and open linked data, and to their specific relevance for libraries. It illustrates these concepts through detailed descriptions of actual data projects. The volume will be useful to individuals involved in library practice and those in library management who have not yet become familiarized with these important contemporary fields.

This well-established work offers information specialists an updated introduction to working with information resources. Along with theoretical principles, there are approx. 400 selected general and specialized information resources with descriptions of their content, functions, and importance. A chapter on research data has been newly added. The handbook imparts basic knowledge on information resources that is directly applicable to practice.

The ten chapters of this book examine all aspects of academic library systems at British universities. The volume includes library history, collection expansion, indexing, electronic resources, personnel structure, organizational structure, professional training, library statistics, and open access.

This volume provides a comprehensive review of all forms of modern acquisition management in libraries in the German speaking world. In over thirty contributions, absolute specialists cover the entire spectrum of acquisition: the needs of users; acquisition in library management; libraries and the trade; local, regional and supra-regional acquisition and Open Access. The volume offers students and early career professionals useful guidance, and up-to-date views and ideas for experienced professionals.

The Handbook of Collection Management in Public Libraries offers a comprehensive view of the subject. It illuminates current challenges in the book and media market, the rapid development of the internet, and the increasing competition between new providers of information and media, as well as current socio-political challenges which impose new demands on collection managements; for example demographic change, changing values in society and the growing competition for funding between public institutions.

This volume deals primarily with the experiences of users and current methodological trends in digital libraries. It provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of the user orientation of digital libraries (evaluation, usefulness, interculturality, web design, relevance ranking, mobile terminals).

This second, completely revised edition provides approximately 300 links to sources on the Internet, most of which are free. Of these links, about 200 are described in detail, divided in the individual subjects of the Dewey decimal classification system. Subject gateways – mainly in German and English – are listed, along with lexica, bibliographies and databases. Knowledge of subject-specific websites can facilitate reliable information retrieval.

This volume provides review of the increasing availability of electronic information resources for historians. The most important types and classes are presented with central examples. A more detailed look is taken at bibliographies and databases of articles, virtual specialist libraries and portals, e-books and digital libraries, reference works and information resources on literary source material, as well as the various areas of the auxiliary historical sciences.

This volume offers information specialists an up-to-date introduction to using information resources. In addition to the theoretical foundations, approx. 400 general and subject-specific information resources are selected, and their contents, functions and importance are described. The book conveys a basic knowledge of information resources which can be used directly in practice. Due to its broad scope of information and its consideration of the rapid transformation taking place in the field of information resources, the book puts a new focus on selecting and assessing the relevance of the means of information.

• Unique introduction to this subject in the German-speaking region

• Classic works on introduction to bibliography published in the mid-eighties have become obsolete

• In contrast to these classic works, the book offers a new focus on selecting and assessing the relevance of the means of information

With the term "Library 2.0" the editors mean an institution which applies the principles of the Web 2.0 such as openness, re-use, collaboration and interaction in the entire organization. Libraries are extending their service offerings and work processes to include the potential of Web 2.0 technologies. This changes the job description and self-image of librarians. The collective volume offers a complete overview of the topic Library 2.0 and the current state of developments from a technological, sociological, information theoretical and practice-oriented perspective.

Using significant examples, this volume offers an overview of the ever growing range of electronic information resources for scholars of German studies. Modern forms of library catalogues, bibliographies and article databases, as well as web catalogues, virtual special libraries, digital libraries, subject portals, electronic encyclopaedia and dictionaries are all dealt with in detail. In addition, scholarly search engines, information services and German studies reviews are taken into account, as are the different forms of scholarly communication on the Internet.

This handbook is a guide to the library database system Allegro, used for cataloguing in many small and medium sized special libraries (with up to about 100,000 volumes). Students of librarianship also use it during their education. This handbook offers a practice-based guide to cataloguing with Allegro and is a textbook and reference work for both beginners and experienced users. It is relevant to countries where the RAK-WB cataloguing system is in use (Austria, East Belgium, Germany and Switzerland).

This work examines the necessary organizational basis for holdings preservation management and offers recommendations for its integration in library organization, and the operational and organizational structure. It demonstrates possibilities of avoiding new damage and reducing expensive repeated measures. An up-to-date literature list for the individual points of focus and an index complete the presentation. In view of the cost situation in the library branch, the topic of damage prevention is of no small economic significance.

“This German version of the original IFLA publication, which has been translated into many other languages, remains the most important basic work for the services of public libraries and is relevant even in times of digital transformation. It provides the basis for a well-founded and convincing line of argument toward funding bodies.”
Prof. Dr. Claudia Lux, Director General of the Foundation Central and Regional Library Berlin