Foreword ........................................................ 7
German librarianship in figures 2009 ........................... 10
1 History ..................................................... 11
The Historical Development of Libraries in Germany .......... 11
From the Middle Ages until Secularization ................. 11
From the 19th Century to the Second World War ............. 15
From Divided to United Germany ............................ 18
2 Education and Culture ....................................... 23
Germany's Political, Administrative and Organizational
Structure ................................................... 23
Educational Institutions .................................... 27
General Schools ........................................... 27
Vocational Training ....................................... 28
The Public and Private Media Sector: Photo and Film
Services, Media Centres, Commercial Providers ............. 28
Professional Continuing Education and Further Education ... 29
Adult Education and Community Colleges .................... 30
Universities and other Higher Education Institutions ...... 30
The Book Trade .............................................. 33
3 Library Diversity ........................................... 36
The Multifaceted Picture of Libraries in Germany ............ 36
The Many Different Types of Funding Institutions ............ 36
Public Funding Institutions: Federal Government - Federal
States - Municipalities - Public Foundations .............. 36
Ecclesiastical Funding Institutions ....................... 37
Private Funding Institutions .............................. 38
The Many Different Types of Library ......................... 38
Libraries at National Level ................................. 38
The German National Library (Deutsche
Nationalbibliothek) ....................................... 38
The Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage
(Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz) ... 41
The Bavarian State Library in Munich (Bayerische
Staatsbibliothek) ......................................... 43
The Central Subject Libraries ............................. 44
State Libraries (Landesbibliotheken) and other Regional
Libraries ................................................... 45
Libraries of Higher Education Institutions .................. 48
University Libraries ...................................... 48
Libraries of the Universities of Applied Sciences and other
Higher Education Institutions ............................. 50
Special and Technical Libraries ............................. 51
Public Libraries ............................................ 55
Local Authority Public Libraries .......................... 56
State Service Centres for Public Libraries ................ 60
Public Libraries maintained by the Churches ............... 61
Special Areas of Public Librarianship ....................... 62
Children's and Young People's Libraries ................... 62
School Libraries .......................................... 63
Library Services for Special User Groups .................. 65
Other Libraries ............................................. 66
Information and Documentation Centres ....................... 66
4 Professions and Associations ................................ 69
The Organization(s) of German Librarianship ................. 69
The Library Professions ..................................... 69
The History of Professional Librarianship Training .......... 71
Librarianship Training and Training Institutions in
Germany ..................................................... 72
Continuing Professional Education and Training for Library
Staff ....................................................... 74
Institutional Cooperation Among Libraries in Germany ........ 74
The Federal Union of German Library and Information
Associations (BID) as Umbrella Organization ............... 75
German Library Association (Deutscher Bibliotheksverband
e.V. - dbv) ............................................... 76
Association of Information and Library Professionals
(Berufsverband Information Bibliothek e.V. - BIB) ......... 79
Association of German Librarians (Verein Deutscher
Bibliothekare e.V. - VDB) ................................. 80
ekz-Library Service, Reutlingen ........................... 81
The Bertelsmann Foundation, Gütersloh ..................... 83
The Goethe Institute e.V., Munich ......................... 84
The German Society for Information Science and Information
Practice (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Informations-
wissenschaft und Informations-praxis e.V. - DGI) .......... 85
International Cooperation ................................... 86
5 Cooperation between German Libraries ........................ 89
Cooperation within Local, Regional and National Services .... 89
The Principles of Library Cooperation ....................... 89
Cooperation in Market Scanning and Acquisitions ............. 91
The German Research Foundation, the Special Subject Field
Collection-building Programme and the Virtual Subject
Libraries ................................................. 91
The Collection of German Imprints (Sammlung Deutscher
Drucke) ................................................... 94
Book Review Cooperation in Public Libraries
(Lektoratskooperation) .................................... 95
Cooperation in Cataloguing and Subject Indexing ............. 96
The Regional Network Systems .............................. 97
The National Periodicals Database and the Electronic
Periodicals Library ....................................... 99
Bibliographies of Early Imprints ......................... 101
Cooperative User and Information Services .................. 103
National Interlibrary Lending ............................ 103
Electronic Document Delivery Services .................... 105
Cooperative Information Services ......................... 106
6 The Future of the Library, the Library of the Future ....... 107
Parameters and strategic issues ............................ 107
Concepts and models for the public library of the future ... 110
Vision and reality in academic libraries ................... 112
The Digital Library ........................................ 113
Summary and Outlook ........................................ 117
Appendices ................................................. 118
The Authors ................................................ 118
The Translator ............................................. 118
Picture References ......................................... 119
In Order of Appearance in the Text ....................... 119
Alphabetical Index by Location ........................... 120
Winners of the National Library Prize ...................... 120
Further Reading ............................................ 120
Books and Yearbooks ...................................... 120
Journals ................................................. 122
Internet Addresses ....................................... 123
Subject Index (Names, Institutions, Abbreviations) ............ 123
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