Volume 50 (2003), Edition 2

This article deals with the current situation of those librarians in German-speaking countries who deal primarily with the acquisition and cataloging of Japanese literature. A survey shows the various ways in which the need for specialists in this...

In-service training in Cologne began immediately after the end of the Second World War in 1945, initially at the University and City Library, and later at the Library Training School, the College for Librarianship and Documentation, and, most...

The largest joint project of Polish and German librarians to date was undertaken by libraries in Wroclaw (Breslau), Danzig (Gdansk), Poznan (Posen), Szczecin (Stettin), Warsaw and Munich. The budget of nearly 2,250,000 Euro was raised with grants...

The new University Acts, universal budgets, cost and activity accounting, and increasing competitiveness are leading to changes in academic administration and having an immediate impact on the tasks and working conditions of academic libraries. The...