Volume 51 (2004), Edition 5-6

In Germany there are currently only a handful of university publishing houses. In Anglo-American countries, by contrast, the number of prominent university presses has been growing over many years. This article traces the various historical...

Will Google, Yahoo and Microsoft become the only avenues for accessing the world of knowledge in the year 2010? The author of this article makes the case for concerted action on the part of libraries which would lead to the creation of dependable,...

During the structural budgetary crisis of the 1990s the academic libraries in Bavaria attempted to lower the costs of collection development by establishing a cooperative service network using modern information technologies, and, hence, to ensure...

For over 100 years the State Library in Berlin has been assigning identi codes (Sigel) to libraries in Germany. The coding system was begun originally during the extensive project of compiling the »Prussian Union Catalog.« It continued to be...

During the Third Reich, Germany's Central Security Agency (RSHA) in Berlin had a central library which served all the agency's departments as well as numerous departmental libraries. In addition to the Legal Library and the Staff Library, located on...