Volume 60 (2013), Edition 1

Over the next few years there will be a thorough restructuringof the nationwide special subject collections system in Germanacademic libraries. Subsidized for over 60 years by the GermanResearch Foundation (DFG), this scheme is now scheduled...

For more than two years various models of Patron-Driven Acquisition(PDA) have been tested at the Mannheim University Library.In the meantime PDA has become a frequently applied and hotlydebated method for the acquisition of eBooks within the...

In the course of reconstructing and cataloging the historical collectionsof the Gottfired Wilhelm Leibniz Library of Hannover,hand-written inventories of the ducal library were found to havesurprisingly high standards of bibliographic detail....