Thèses sur le sujet « Germany Libraries »

774 Seiten ist sie dick und liegt jetzt auch als Buch vor: die bisher umfangreichste Bestandsaufnahme zur Kultur in Deutschland. Im Juli 2003 hatte der Deutsche Bundestag eine Arbeitsgruppe aus elf Abgeordneten und elf Sachverständigen einberufen. Innerhalb von vier Jahren, nach 87 Sitzungen, 22 Anhörungen, 21 Expertengesprächen, sechs Delegationsreisen und auf der Grundlage von 12 Gutachten ist ein umfassender Überblick über das kulturelle Leben in Deutschland entstanden, eine opulente Zusammenstellung von 465 Handlungsempfehlungen an Politik, Verwaltung und Kulturorganisationen.

This master’s thesis studies library teaching at two university libraries, Freie Universität Berlin in Germany and Södertörn University in Sweden. The aim of this paper is to study views on information literacy, how these views affect teaching practice, and how the teaching of information literacy is connected to, on the one hand, German and Swedish learning culture and, on the other, the local community of practice at the studied university libraries. The theories applied in this paper are learning culture and community of practice as developed in the works of Judith Ricken and Etienne Wenger. The methods that have been used are qualitative, semi-structured interviews that were conducted at both university libraries. It was observed that the teaching practices were highly connected to learning cultures. While library teach-ing at Freie Universität Berlin’s university library focuses mostly on concrete practical knowledge, the develop-ment of general competencies is the most important part at Södertörn University library. The community of practice at Freie Universität Berlin’s university library is quite clearly delimited and concentrated on core com-petencies like knowledge about databases and reference organizers. At Södertörn University library the more cross-border community of practice includes even non-traditional library work like academic writing as a teach-ing subject. This is a two years master’s thesis in Archive, Library and Museum studies.

Ausgehend von der Unzulänglichkeit, die Lesen als Forschungsgegenstand für jene gesellschaftlichen Fragestellungen hat, die über die Didaktik des Lesenlernens hinausreichen, versucht die vorliegende Arbeit einen anderen Zugang zu der Thematik. Nicht die Frage, was, wie, warum und wieviel Menschen lesen, ist hier Forschungsinteresse, vielmehr wird invertiert gefragt, wie Gesellschaftssysteme 'Lesen' definieren, welchen Personen dabei die Rolle des Lesers zugeschrieben wird und welche Motivationen eine solche Differenzierung auslösen und unterstützen. Theoretische Grundlage hierfür ist die Systemtheorie der Bielefelder Schule nach Niklas Luhmann. Anhand der redaktionellen Beiträge der Fachzeitschriften 'Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel' sowie 'Buch und Bibliothek [Bücherei und Bildung]' wird die Theorie explizit am Beispiel des Buchhandels und des öffentlichen Bibliothekswesen dargestellt. Bei der Analyse zeigt sich, daß Lesekultur als Produkt eines Traditionssystems wesentlich vom Buchhandel instrumentalisiert wird. Nach innen zur Identitäts- und Marktsicherung sowie nach außen zur Einwerbung staatlicher Sonderkonzessionen, besonders im Kartellrecht. Das Öffentliche Bibliothekswesen indes thematisiert trotz seiner Nähe zum Buchhandel Lesekultur in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren so gut wie gar nicht und nutzt andere Persuasionsmedien zur Systemstabilisierung. Erst provoziert durch empfindliche Etatkürzungen während der Rezession zu Beginn der 1980er Jahre koppelt sich auch das Öffentliche Bibliothekswesen wieder an die Lesekultur als Persuasionmedium zur Einwerbung staatlicher Leistungen.
Taking as its starting point the short-comings of reading as a topic of research for social questions that reach beyond the didactic of learning to read, the present dissertation attempts to approach this subject from another vantage point. The focus of interest is not how many people read what subject matter, in what fashion, and why, but rather its opposite: How do social systems define 'reading', what persons are assigned the role of 'reader' and what are the motivations that this social distinction engenders or promotes. The theoretical foundation for the study is based on the Bielefeld school of systems theory as expounded by Niklas Luhmann. Through an analysis of editorial articles appearing over a period of forty years in the journals 'Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel' and 'Buch und Bibliothek [Bücherei und Bildung]', the theoretical model is demonstrated by examples drawn from book-trade and the public library system. In the process it becomes apparent that the culture of reading as a product of a traditional system is fundamentally instrumentalized by the book-trade: inwards for the purpose of identity and market protection, outwards for the purpose of soliciting special national concessions, in particular in the area of antitrust law. In spite of its proximity to book-trade, the public library system all but failed to address reading culture in the decades of 1960s and 1970s and made use of other persuasive media as a means of system stabilization. Only after considerable budgetary cuts during the recession at the start of the 1980s did the public library system couple itself to the culture of reading as a medium of persuasion for soliciting state benefits.

Die Aufgabe der Deutschen Zentralbücherei für Blinde zu Leipzig (DZB) besteht seit über einhundert Jahren in der Her- und Bereitstellung von Literatur und Informationen für sehbehinderte und blinde Menschen. Als »Verein zur Beschaffung von Hochdruckschriften und Arbeitsgelegenheiten für Blinde« im Jahre 1894 gegründet, ist sie heute die älteste derartige öffentliche Bücherei Deutschlands. Sie befindet sich in Leipzig, der traditionsreichen Buchmetropole Sachsens.

Master thesis is devoted to the currently completed and running projects and initiatives focused on digital libraries in the Federal Republic of Germany. The initial chapters are a brief survey of the recently used termins. The second chapter deals with problematic of open access and its promotion. The third chapter concentrates on the German conception of the information policy and its main representatives: German Research Foundation (Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG, http://www.dfg.de) and Federal Ministry for Education and Research (Das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF, http://www.bmbf.de) and connected operational programmes. The fourth chapter introduces the key initiatives in digital library area: The Information and Communication (Information und Kommunikation, IuK, http://www.iuk-initiative.org) and The German Initiative for Network Information (Die Deutsche Netzwerkinitiative, DINI, http://www.dini.de) and their role at the emergence of the digital library projects. The German particularity consisting in the process of certification of servers and its prerequisites are described in more details, too. The fifth chapter sketches the chronological line of development and aims to show some selected projects composed into integrated system: opening of electronic dissertations to...

Master thesis called "Teenage Girls as a Specific User Group in Libraries" is focusing on users of a library between the ages of 12 - 19 years and on the design of library space for this age group. The theoretical part of the thesis aims to provide the everyday library practice with the basis for creating space for teens, including marketing, staff, services and collections. The theoretical part also focuses on the physiological, psychological, emotional and sociological characteristics of teenage girls. The situation in the Czech Republic is also introduced. With regard to the fact, that the library services and spaces for the teenagers in the Czech Republic are at their very beginnings, the examples from abroad, Germany in particular, are introduced. The practical part is realized by means of a questionnaire survey and interviews. The practical part focuses on existing and potential users of the Municipal Library in Prague, where the new space for teens should be established in a near future. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Background: Free/Libre/Open-Source Software (FLOSS) is a basic part of our daily digital life. Also in libraries there is a growing number of FLOSS used for different processes. For german scientific libraries there is a deficit in research in this subject, neither in journals nor in specialized books. This study aims to approach this subject. Methods: In the first part of this Study there was fundamental research about the topic and an analysis of the literature to get the current state of resarch. Then, in the mixedmethods part, Interviews with experts from libraries were kept and the outcomes from the interviews were presented to other experts from libraries. At the end there was a triangulation of the qualitative and the quantitative part. Outcomes: The study showed that FLOSS is used by libraries in growing numbers. Core Area is the search engine technology. The study also shows that there might be a deficit in cooperation between the libraries, allthough the management has recognized the strategical concept of FLOSS and FLOSS-Ecosystems. Commitment of FLOSS is a challenge for different reasons. The study gives an overview about FLOSS in german scientific libraries. Keywords: Open Source Software, Free Software, Library, qualitative research, quantitative research, Triangulation

The diploma thesis concentrates on the children's reading issues, and compares the approach to its support in the Czech Republic and the German speaking countries. The introductory part is devoted to the current children's reading, the factors that influence it, and reading interests of today's children. It also evaluates the contemporary Czech children's literature and its publishers. The following two chapters describe the activities for the children's reading support that are developed by Czech libraries and non-librarian entities. The next part introduces the projects for the children's reading support implemented in Austria and Germany; it also shortly describes the programs of other German speaking countries. The sixth chapter briefly outlines the subject matter of the children's reading support in both Czech and foreign media. There are two surveys attached to the thesis. The first compares the activities of selected Czech and foreign libraries, and their contribution to the children's reading support. The second survey, implemented among the children readers of the Central Library of the Municipal Library in Prague, evaluates the children's satisfaction with the offered thematic discussions for the school classes. The closing part summarizes the received findings, and recapitulates the...

The presentation was part of The 6th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop at the 11th ECDL Conference, Budapest, Hungary September 21st 2007 http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/pages/research/hypermedia/nkos/nkos2007/progr amme.html
In 2004, the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research funded a major terminology mapping initiative at the GESIS Social Science Information Centre in Bonn (GESIS-IZ), which will find its conclusion this year. The task of this terminology mapping initiative was to organize, create and manage â crossconcordancesâ between major controlled vocabularies (thesauri, classification systems, subject heading lists) centred around the social sciences but quickly extending to other subject areas. This project is the largest terminology mapping effort in Germany. The number and variety of controlled vocabularies targeted provide an optimal basis for insights and further research opportunities. To our knowledge, terminology mapping efforts have rarely been evaluated with stringent qualitative and quantitative measures. This research should contribute in this area. For the NKOS workshop, we plan to present an overview of the project and participating vocabularies, an introduction to the heterogeneity service and its application as well as some of the results and findings of the evaluation, which will be concluded in August.

Liebe Leserinnen und Leser, Weichenstellungen und Quantensprünge sind die Begriffe, mit denen wir gern wichtige Wegmarken beschreiben. Dann ist meist von „fundamentalen Veränderungen“ die Rede, von „weitreichenden Entscheidungen für die Zukunft“ und deren „strategischer Bedeutung für die weitere Entwicklung“. In BIS berichten wir regelmäßig aus sächsischen Bibliotheken – im Kleinen, wie im Großen. In BIS dokumentieren wir Projekterfolge, Kooperationen und Veränderungsprozesse mit dem Ziel, Erfahrungen und Impulse aus Theorie und Praxis sichtbar zu machen und überregional auszutauschen, damit sie im Idealfall auch andernorts Veränderungen bewirken können.