Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie

The objective of the federal and state funded project »DeutscheDigitale Bibliothek« is to establish a central platform for cultureand information in Germany. In doing so it is making a considerablecontribution to bringing cultural and...

The World Wide Web is well established as a global informationand communication medium. New technologies regularly comealong which expand the forms of use and permit even inexperiencedusers to publish content or take part in discussions. For...

Since 2006 the legal mandate of the German National Libraryhas also included the collection of media publications which canbe retrieved by the public in non-physical form. Such a mandateis open to interpretation, and indeed both the handling of...

Now that texts are no longer based on printed characters buton ephemeral alphanumerical code in electronic form instead,there has been a corresponding shift in the nature of the risksand opportunities attached to the collection mandate of...

The collection and archiving of websites has developed into anew sphere of activity since the end of the 1990s in various culture-preservation institutions worldwide. The basic necessity ofweb archiving is explored in the introduction to the...

The Web itself is international, meaning that comprehensive webarchiving can only succeed if conducted on the basis of internationalcooperation. Broad-based web archiving is carried outabove all by the US organisation Internet Archive and by...

Jahrestagung der deutschen Musikbibliotheken (AIBM) vom 22. bis 25. September 2015 in Stuttgart; 9. Open-Access-Tage vom 7. bis 8. September 2015 in Zürich; Die Universitätsbibliotheken in Bayern – alle auf einen Klick; Vergabe des...

While information management in research and libraries usedto be dominated by the handling of literature, nowadays manynew tools are available. The advent of office products, databasesand online platforms have not only radically changed the...

In order to implement research data management successfully atuniversities it is imperative that information literacy be strengthenedappropriately. Students, teaching staff and researchers needto adapt to this new challenge, but so, too, do...

In many cases the response to the question of information literacyas a task and a challenge for research libraries is still simplyto offer training courses. By adopting a new perspective on theissue, information literacy can become an integrated...

Kriegssammlungen 1914–1918 (Jürgen Babendreier); »Darf ich Ihnen meinen Wunschzettel mitteilen?«: die Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in der Literatur (Martin Hollender); Benutzungsdienste in Bibliotheken: Bestandsund Informationsvermittlung...

The term »teaching librarian« is still largely unknown in Germanlibraries – with the exception of the recently-launched certificatecourse at the Cologne University of Applied Science – althoughit is relatively common in the Anglo-American...