Volume 63 (2016), Issue 1

The State and University Library Bremen (SuUB) is responsible forsupplying academic literature to all public colleges and universitiesin the state of Bremen. The single-tier SuUB library systemserves the University of Bremen, the two universities...

Duisburg-Essen University Library (UB) was created in 2003 asa result of the merger of the Duisburg and Essen universitiesto create the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE). The mergercould be regarded as enforced change, yet the UB viewed it asan...

Compared to the »established« libraries, the libraries of the universitiesof applied sciences have a relatively short history. Inthe case of the Fulda University of Applied Sciences, which onlycelebrated its 40th anniversary in 2014, a major...

This article describes a political process which affects the futureof all Thuringian university libraries. In 2012, the Thuringian auditoffice recommended that the state should set cross-libraryobjectives regarding the structural development and...