Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie

This article describes the development of a modern search enginebased information retrieval setting from its envisioning through to its technological realization. The author takes up the thread of an earlier article on this subject (ZfBB 51 (2004),...

The current process of university reform in Germany aims at a complete restructuring of the relations between government and universities. The government is retreating step-by-step from the previously detailed management of the universities and...

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...