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Der Aufsatz skizziert grob die Entwicklung der Spartentrennung zwischen Öffentlichen und wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert Er beschreibt die strukturelle Konvergenz der Sparten ab Mitte der 1960er Jahre. Auf der Basis einer Diskursstrukturanalyse lässt sich feststellen, dass sich seit Mitte der 2000er Jahre der Abstand zwischen den Sparten wieder vergrößert. Es wird vorgeschlagen, die Unterschiede zwischen den Sparten unter dem Paradigma der Diversität umzuwerten und dann auf der Basis der Diskursanalyse nach Themen gesucht, die die Sparten im Dialog verbinden können. The paper illustrates how the relationship between the sectors of public and academic libraries in Germany developed in the 20th and 21st centuries. Following an initial period of strict separation in almost all respects and institutional structures, the two library sectors had started to gradually converge in the mid-1960s. On the institutional level, this process seemed to have come to an end by the year 2000, but quantitative discourse analyses show that the communication gap between the two library segments has been widening yet again since the mid-2000s. We propose a change in paradigm to capture the fact that the differences are indicators for an ever-expanding and more differentiated field. Discourse analysis will be used to identify topics and subjects that could serve as either 'boundary objects' or 'translatable objects' in the dialogue between the different library sectors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The book "The Stolberg-Wernigerode Library" by Philipp Prince of Stolberg-Wernigerode describes the history of a noble book collection, its dismantling, and its reopening. The author reclaimed the book holdings of his family's former private library and was able to reopen the library to the public in the summer of 2019. The library once comprised approximately 10,000 volumes and grew to 30,000 volumes by the death of Christian Ernst zu Stolberg-Wernigerode in 1771. During the Weimar Republic, the library suffered significant losses and was dismantled in the GDR. With the "Compensation and Equalization Act" of 1994, some books were restituted, while others are still present in institutions in the eastern federal states. The book documents the efforts of reconstruction and restitution of the collections, but it contains many details and no index. It also raises critical questions about the preservation and accessibility of the library in Hirzenhain. [Extracted from the article]

Examines aspects of book collecting in the Thirty Years' War in Germany. Role of library collections as booty; Use of books as tokens of appeasement and goodwill; Role of books as capital and as propaganda; Perception of large libraries as symbols of cultural prestige by the confessionally motivated parties involved in warfare; Books' totemic significance.

After the Second World War, efforts to develop and expand the German library system mainly focused on academic university libraries. Regional state libraries were at risk of being pushed to the margins despite their pivotal role in maintaining the cultural and historic heritage of their region. Due to Dr. Hermann Sauter's (of the Speyer regional library) initiating the association of the working group of regional libraries in 1958, they gradually regained relevance in library policies. In 1964 regional libraries were included in the "recommendations of the Council of Science and Humanities for the development of scientific institutions". By joining forces with the working group of municipal scientific libraries in 1971, the Standing Working Group of Regional Libraries was finally established. Our contribution looks back to the beginnings of the sixty-year history and outlines its developments in broad terms. A shorter version was presented as keynote lecture at the autumn meeting of the Working Group of Regional Libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This report offers an insight into the project enabling the search for NS-Raubgut (Nazi loot) in the collections of the Württemberg State Library which started in June 2016. It describes the selection of the collections to be examined, the registration and presentation of the finds as well as first results which in two cases have already led to quite concrete possibilities of a restitution to heirs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Corporate museums make important contributions to science history and daily life. They are an essential part of the historical marketing of organizations, including scientific associations. The museum for the history of urology organized and housed by the German Society of Urology (DGU) can be compared to a corporate museum, because the institution serves two purposes: it represents the society to a wider public and it helps to reconstruct and analyze the history of urology and the history of the society. In a close collaboration with medical historians from all over the world the museum serves as a research institution for the history of urology. The institution is founded at the frontier between a commercial corporate museum similar to that of international companies and a classical scientific museum. The paper describes these aspects of the museum and discusses the inherent value of a museum for a scientific association. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The history of the city library Ulm has been reviewed up to the year 1968 as far as the sources are available. This report focusses on the contemporary development since 1968 and especially on tasks resulting from the organisational merging of the public department (former Volksbucherei, est. 1896) and the scientific department (city library, est. 1516) in the years 1998/99. The development's discussion is guided by the questions which tasks have remained coming from the historic collection of books and the scientific city library's tradition, and how and to which extent they can be worked on at present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The first professional school for public libraries in Germany started in Leipzig in 1914, followed by schools in Berlin and Cologne. With the beginning of Nazi dictatorship it became apparent that the capacities of these three schools were not sufficient for the planned extension of the library network. Therefore in 1942 a fourth school was founded in Stuttgart for southern Germany, including occupied Austria and Sudetenland. The archives of the Stuttgart Media University hold the official teaching diary (1942-52) of its predecessor, the Stuttgart Library School. It documents early conditions, lecturers' political backgrounds, staffing, problems during the Second World War, and difficulties encountered in the post-war period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reconstructs for the first time the rescue of the Schocken Library, one of the largest privately owned book collections, from Nazi Germany. The library consisted of over 60,000 volumes of rare and precious ­Hebrew and German books, manuscripts, and incunabula. The books were shipped from Germany to Mandate Palestine in the years 1934-1937 and the library is one of the few collections that completely survived National Socialist destruction and looting. The case of the Schocken library can help us understand all of the many challenges involved in successfully relocating a library of its size. Without a network of professionals, experience dealing with authorities and unlimited funds, an operation like the shipment of the Schocken library would not have been possible. The second part of the paper focuses on how, once the library was in Jerusalem, the way in which it was perceived changed. From the contemporary perspective of the owner, the merchant and publisher Salman Schocken, and from the perspective of its users and visitors, the library was perceived as a place of continuity in exile rather than as a place of saved books. The micro-historical perspective not only allows us to understand how historical subjects interpret the world around them but also how they try to influence historical processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper describes the development of the library educational programme of the Mannheim municipal library during the last ten years. The focus lies on the factors human resources, organizational change and space required to be effective as a partner in education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay focuses on the chequered history of the Regional State Library of Coburg. The former library of a Thuringian duchy has now been a Bavarian regional state library since 1973. With its management having changed hands several times during the last 200 years the library has seen repeated new beginnings including far-reaching changes. As a consequence it has a large number of collections of often outstanding quality. These should be integrated in the new virtual world of books. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Since October 2012, the “Landesbibliothekszentrum Rheinland-Pfalz/ Pfälzische Landesbibliothek Speyer" (PLB) has been investigating its inventory to identify books confiscated during the Nazi period. This provenance project - scheduled to last for one year - is supported by the Arbeitsstelle für Provenienzforschung (Post for Provenance Research) in Berlin. In the last six months, 28,000 acquisitions by purchase and 17,000 acquisitions by gift have been checked. As a result, ca. 50 books were found to have originally belonged to Jews from Speyer who were deported to the internment camp of Gurs in Southern France. The books were given to the PLB by the City of Speyer in 1941. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Zur Biografie des Gymnasiallehrers Dr. Hans Woelbing, der maßgeblich an der Bücherverbrennung in Dortmund beteiligt war, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Jahre ab 1926 in Dortmund und nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg in Koblenz und Zweibrücken. This article narrates the biography of Hans Woelbing, a teacher, who played a significant role in executing book burning in Dortmund, with special focus on the years from 1926 onward in Dortmund, and after the Second World War in Koblenz and Zweibrücken. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dieser Beitrag berichtet über die Geschichte eines Buches des jüdischen Apothekers Leopold Scheyer, das, nachdem es im Jahr 2010 aus dem Bibliotheksbestand der Freien Universität Berlin ausgesondert wurde, antiquarisch erworben, sich als NS-Raubgut herausstellte und jetzt an die Erben zurückerstattet wurde. Ein sich daran anschließendes Studium der Entschädigungsakten gibt Einblick in die Praxis der Wiedergutmachung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in den Nachkriegsjahren. This essay reports the history of a book that was disowned from a Jewish pharmacist during the rule of the NS regime and unjustly assigned to the Berlin (Freie Universität) university library. After the book was discarded by the library in 2010, it was purchased on the book market and subsequently identified as Nazi-loot. As we were fortunate enough to locate the legitimate heirs, the book could be returned into their hands. A resulting investigation of the legal documents of corresponding indemnity process allows to gain insights into the way how compensation cases were legally dealt with in the Federal Republic of Germany. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The essay resumes the main points of the discussion during the 1960’s about regional libraries, which also brought forth the development of German regional libraries. Their merits concerning unique holdings and historical collections make them appreciated libraries of research, ready to meet the requirements of actual digitisation activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Western Europe in the late eighteenth century, complaints were rife about the disorganization of libraries and the character of their librarians. Not only from the perspective of library users, but also from within librarians' own ranks, the sentiment became more widespread that librarians should strive to be more industrious and effective, and that libraries should aim to be better organized in order to promote use and access. The strong 'public service' orientation to nineteenth-century European library theory lay at the heart of the major practical or 'technical' innovations - notably in the fields of classification and cataloguing - which transformed librarianship into a profession towards the end of the century. This article aims to explore the impact of these innovations on the role and image of the librarian in the nineteenth century, with particular reference to academic libraries and librarians in England, France, and Germany. It is suggested that as a characteristic set of 'librarianly' virtues - prime among these being love of order, conscientiousness, selflessness, and the willingness to serve - rose to pre-eminence against the background of technical innovations in the field (and also, incidentally, as a reaction against the 'scholar librarians' of an earlier era), the seeds were sown of a crisis in the librarian's professional image and self-image with implications which may even reach into the present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses anniversary celebration of the 15th year since the reopening of the historical building of the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar, Germany, on October 24, 2012. The library's collection exceeded one million a few years ago, and 15,000 original prints have now been made available on the internet.

The article discusses metamorphosis and history of the Herzog August Bibliothek, a German library in Wolfenbüttel, Germany. In the beginning of the 20th century, the library was a private collection of manuscripts, and transformed into a state library of Braunschweig in the 20s. The library was transformed into a research library at the end of the century and nowadays focuses German manuscripts.

The article compares the Danish library law from 2000 with similar initiatives in Germany, in particular the Thuringian law, based on the "best-practice" research in 2007 executed by the Bertelsmann-Foundation and supported by the German library association (Deutscher Bibliotheksverband). Other topics mentioned are the history and development of the German library law, the history of the Danish libraries , and new legislation for the digitization of library materials.

The article presents the Diocese Library in Münster, Germany. Topics discussed include the history of the library since 1401, the focus of the collections including theology, philosophy, and the history of the Middle Ages, and special collections such as of Italian priest and composer Fortunato Santini with church music of the 16th to 19th centuries. The contemporary function of the library in collecting and cataloging special collections as well as the reasons for the establishment of a new building are presented.

The article discusses the role of libraries in monasteries. Topics include the impact of monasteries on cultural developments in history, the decrease of members of the order since the 1960s, which result in the closure or joining of several monasteries, and the fate of their libraries. Details are offered about specific valuable book collections of various monasteries, which have survived throughout the years, including at the Zisterzienserinnenabtei St. Marienthal in Germany. The access to books in monasteries and their cataloging are also discussed. Particular focus is given to efforts to prevent the sale of valuable books to private customers.

The article discusses the maintenance of historical book collections in monastic libraries. Topics include a historical overview of book collections since the middle ages and particularly after the secularization in the 19th century, the move of the books, and the effects of reformation in Germany on the history of libraries. The damage of libraries during wars such as the 30 year war are also discussed as well as the fate of various types of literature throughout the years, including theological books and scientific publications. Finally, the details about the conservation of historical books are also presented.

The article offers news briefs on topics such as the cooperation of the Online Computer Library Center Inc. (OCLC) and eBooks on Demand, which will improve the digitization of books, and a cooperation of the Austrian Österreichische Nationalbibliothek and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Germany. Also mentioned are news on a symposium discussing Nazi pillage and the connection to German library history of the 20th century.

The article presents information about a conference held in Bad Arolsen, Germany from September 30, 2010 to October first, 2010. Topics under discussion at the conference included the history of libraries between the cultural and intellectual movements of the Baroque Period and the Enlightenment. Presentations were given by international scholars including Jürgen Wolf, Cristina Fossaluzza, and Jillian Bepler.

This article examines the classification and arrangement of libraries and the image of the librarian, and explores possible links between the two, in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Germany with particular reference to academic libraries in the period between 1850 and 1920. The first part of the article argues that the systematic classification and shelf arrangement which were the norm in German libraries during this period tended to support a particular image of the librarian in contemporary writings on library science: specifically, a view of the librarian as a congenial guide to the collection, who would selflessly serve the library and its users. The latter part of the article examines the critique of systematic arrangement in libraries in Germany in the second half of the nineteenth century, and suggests that new views of the library's arrangement and function at this time helped usher in a new conception of the librarian's role and ideal persona. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a comparative study of French and German public libraries, specifically between Bibliothèques Municipales Classées (BMCs - municipal French libraries) and die Staatlichen Bibliotheken (SBs - German public libraries). The author defines these institutional types and discusses their comparative characteristics, missions, historical development, legal regulation and standing, as well as contemporary challenges they face.

This article discusses bibliographic documentation of scholarly research on the topic of the United Nations (U.N.) in Germany prior to the mid-1990s. The author explains that prior to 1992, periodicals and international monographic literature on U.N.-related topics was documented in bibliographies covering the period up to 1985. It is explained that there is a greater need for a nationwide German effort across library networks to document library holdings about the U.N.

The article presents a speech by Horst Köhler, Federal President of Germany, delivered at the reopening of the Anna Amalia Bibliothek in Weimar, Germany on October 24, 2007, in which he discussed the history of German libraries as well as contemporary German library science and cultural significance.

The report presents an annual (2005) financial summary of the Study Group of Collections of German Printings, assembled by the University of Göttingen. With the exception of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (German National Library), the six libraries of the Study Group experienced budget and expenditure decreases compared to the previous year. A summary of finances is given for the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Focuses on the state of library history research in Germany. Lack of institutionalization and academic standing in library history; Reasons for suspending the program on Indexing Sources of Library History and the History of Books; Responses of non-university institutions to the challenges of library history research.

Traces the whole pattern of development and discontinuity in German historic libraries region by region. Professor Bernhard Fabian's initiative to compile a conspectus of historic library collections; Publications and current projects of German historic libraries.

Discusses the reciprocal relationship of Catholic libraries and public libraries in Germany during the Nazi era. Status of Catholic public libraries by the time of the Nazi takeover; Complete transformation of German public librarianship effected by the Nazi regime; Significance of the Reich Concordat to Adolf Hitler and to the Catholic church.

The article presents a report on the role of Benedictine monasteries, universities, and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich, Germany, in the creation of modern science in the eighteenth century, held in Irsee, Germany, from November 9-10, 2013. Topics of discussion included the sciences in the age of the Enlightenment, attitudes toward science within the Catholic Church, and scientific libraries and collections.

The article discusses the opinion of the Section 4, the department of regional libraries, on the scheduled closing of the Statbibliothek, the city library of Mainz, Germany. The Library was founded in 1477, it offers a broad range of historical and cultural sources, and therefore is an important research library.

The article offers a description of the Bavarian State Library, which was founded in 1558 by Albrecht V, the Duke of Bavaria. The history of the library and its holdings, the effects of World War II on the institution, and the role of the library as a research and lending facility are explored. The library's plans to join the Google Books Library project is also examined and will provide users with access to approximately one million resources. A catalog commissioned for the Bavarian State Library's 400th anniversary and featuring original library holdings including manuscripts, music, and printed books is also discussed.

This article discusses the history of libraries in Germany.