Volume 51 (2004), Edition 3

While the intramural allocation of resources on the basis of performance criteria is currently being implemented at colleges and universities in several German federal states, central institutions such as their libraries are, as a rule, still...

In the past academic libraries in Germany have been successfully undertaking joint endeavors toward a social and political definition of the knowledge society by cooperatively developing ways to provide information and increasing the digital forms...

The intellectual selection and cataloguing of - in many cases dynamic - informational items which can be accessed via Internet is a task requiring intensive use of resources. And due to the lack of any alternatives, it is by and large agreed to be...