Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie

Authority files are a special sort of metadata: metadata for metadata. In a set of authority records that is separate from the metadata of a publication, the names or identis of entities which differ from those used in the publications are collected...

ONIX (the acronym for Online Information Exchange) is the first standard for enriched metadata about books, serial publications and other products in the book trade to be accepted around the world. It was originally developed in the U.S.A. with the...

Metadata and Persistent identis (PI) are two autonomous areas, but related to each other in terms of syntax, semantics and function. The standardization of both areas is the necessary prerequisite for combining metadata with PIs and achieving a...

This article presents a bibliometric analysis of the German document delivery service Subito. Following a brief introduction and a description of the service, the article focusses on the results of the analysis. The first study question was whether...

In this article 30 professional colleges in Germany are compared on the basis of selected performance indicators. The goal of this analysis isto provide the participating libraries with clear evidence of the differences in performance within the...

The Digital Library Federation is a consortium of research libraries and related organizations in the United States that are pioneering in the use of electronic-information technologies. Each of the DLF's members, mostly research libraries,...

In-service training in Cologne began immediately after the end of the Second World War in 1945, initially at the University and City Library, and later at the Library Training School, the College for Librarianship and Documentation, and, most...