26/03/11:
Google books macht alles richtig meint der Spiegel, spiegel spieglein an der wand...
Konrad Lischka: Der Staat spart, Google digitalisiert28/07/10:
Ein Bericht über die Anton-Saefkow-Bibliothek in Berlin-Lichtenberg, die mit ca 4000 russischen Medien aufwartet...
in der TAZ
27/12/09:
Jeden Freitag von 16 bis 18 Uhr auf Free Radio Olympia (USA): Local Library Ladies Lunch (Each friday 4pm to 6pm on Free Radio Olympia)
Listen to it!
26/12/09:
Wie sich das Handelsblatt die ideale Bibliothek vorstellt: Über 'idea stores' in London... (
Die Bibliothek als Besserungsanstalt ). Schade nur, dass für Verbesserungen in den bereits existierenden 'verstaubten' Bibliotheken kein Geld da ist.
04/09/09:
In the US this week is "Banned Books Week".
Look what is banned... While censorship of books seems rare in Germany, it would be naive, to speak of an uncensored book market
Crime novel self-censored.
21/08/09:
Leipzig university library extends working hours to 24 with help of
RFID
terminals.
20/08/09:
The annual IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations) conference is hosted in Milano in Italy from 23. to 27th of august 09
I will try to report on some issues that met my eyes... Programme
here.
a paper on a revisionist in a jewish library.
28/07/09:
Currently i am interested in books that were dispropriated or bought under extortive circumstances from jewish citizens in 1933-1945 Germany. Another link to current state of affairs
in German libraries...
24/07/09:
librarian robots! i need one! According to news there are some models coming up soon:
spanish robot named
Jaume. In Japan they invented a book-browsing robot that can be instructed via internet.
see page 4. A robot named 'Friend' has been developed at Bremen Univ., instructed
to fetch books from a shelf
20/07/09:
Restitution von Büchern:
Legal, illegal, Bib-Regal.-
Die Bremer Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek bemüht sich um die Restitution von Büchern, die durch "Juden-Auktionen" in ihren Besitz gelangten. Lange Zeit wurden diese Aktivitäten von den Fachkollegen ignoriert oder argwöhnisch beäugt. HENNING BLEYL in der TAZ
19/07/09:
Report from Vanuatu, blog of Romany, who is currently working as a volunteer, fixing up the school library in a remote village, and getting the kids engaged in using it.
go there
18/07/09:
Alternative Press Festival 2009 is staged
Wednesday 29th July – Sunday 2nd August 2009 in London: A festival of events over five days celebrating the small press, self publishing and being creative in the print media.
go there
