Barbara Lison

Barbara Lison (born October 2, 1956 in Zbrosławice , Poland ) is a German librarian, chief library director of the Bremen City Library and internationally active library association activist.

biography

education and profession

Lison studied Slavic Studies , History and Education at the Ruhr University in Bochum . After completing her studies, she taught Russian for a short time in Düsseldorf. This was followed by a traineeship in Düsseldorf and a library traineeship in Bochum, Oldenburg and Cologne and work as a librarian . For five years from 1987 to 1992 she headed the city library in Oldenburg. In 1992 she became director of the Bremen City Library, and since 1999 she has been the manager of the Bremen City Library's own operations.

Further offices and memberships

• Member of the board of the German Library Association from 2004 to 2006, 2010 to 2013 and 2013 to 2016; Federal Chair from 2016 to 2019
• Executive board member of the Bremen Library Association, Bremen State Association in the German Library Association (1992 to 2016)
• President of the Federal Association of Information Library Germany - BID (2006 to 2010); Vice President (2016 to 2019)
• Board member of the European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations (EBLIDA), the European umbrella organization of national library associations (1997 to 2001, 2005 to 2009, 2015 to 2018); Vice President (2006 to 2009, 2015 to 2018); Chair of the EBLIDA - Expert Group on Culture and Information Society (2008 to 2010)
• Member of the Advisory Board for Library and Information of the Goethe Institute (1998 to 2004, 2010 to 2013, 2013 to 2016)
• Since 1999 expert for the Goethe-Institut (seminars and colloquia on topics of library science and practice) in Europe and in non-European countries
• Managing Director of the Rudolf Alexander Schröder Foundation in Bremen and member of the jury for the Bremen Literature Prize
• Member of the jury The Political Book of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
• Member of the supervisory board of ekz.bibliotheksservice (ekz) in Reutlingen (1993 to 2017)
• German Cultural Council : Chairman of the Technical Committee cultural funding (2010 to 2011); Member of the committees for civic engagement (2007 to 2011) and cultural and creative industries (2007 to 2011); Member of the Labor and Social Affairs Committee (2011 to 2013, 2013 to 2023)
• Member of the board of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), the world association of library associations (2011 to 2013, 2013 to 2015, 2017 to 2019, President-Elect 2019-2021, President 2021-2023)
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) (2012 to 2016, 2016 to 2020)

Publications (selection)

Online resources

• On the status of heterogeneity treatment in vascoda: inventory and outlook. From Lison, Barbara; Mayr, Philipp; Walter, Anne-Kathrin. Dinges & Frick publishing house 2007. OCLC 662296851 (application / pdf)
• Staffing the hybrid library: innovative strategies in the field of staff development: with examples of good practice from Brisbane, Australia as mirrored in Seattle, USA; Singapore; Stockholm, Sweden; and Bremen, Germany. By Barbara Lison and Inga Lundén. Bertelsmann Foundation, 2004. (E-Book)
• Cooperation and competition in the development of electronic services in libraries. Dobbie, Allison. [Electronic ed.]. - Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Stiftung, 2002. This title has a full text reference.
• Bibliothèques publiques allemandes (Les. 2001-01-01. OCLC 903019184 text / xml)

Monographs and Editing

• Portali sul passato e sul futuro: biblioteche in Germania: pubblicato su incarico della Bibliothek & Information Deutschland eV (BID) / Jürgen Seefeldt e Ludger Syré. Con una pref. di Barbara Lison. Trad .: Piero Santambrogio. Con la collab. di Beate Neumann. Hildesheim; Zurich; New York, NY: Olms 2009
• Portals to the past and future - libraries in Germany zs. with Jürgen Seefeldt. 3rd, revised. Edition Hildesheim [u. a.]: Olms, 2007
• Portals to the past and to the future - libraries in Germany zs. with Jürgen Seefeldt. 2nd rev. ed. Hildesheim [u. a.]: Olms, 2007
• Information and ethics: Third Leipzig Congress for Information and Library, Leipzig, March 19-22, 2007; [at the same time the annual conference of the German Library Association (DBV), the 96th German Librarians' Day, the working and advanced training conference for librarians of the Public and academic libraries and the working and advanced training conference for documentaries]. Wiesbaden: Dinges & Frick, 2007
• Co-operation versus competition in the development of e-services in libraries. From Allison Dobbie; Barbara Lison-Ziessow; International Network of Public Libraries; Bertelsmann Foundation. Bertelsmann Foundation, 2002
• Internet access in public libraries - need and possibility of structuring online access to information and knowledge: project; BINE (library + internet). Bremen, 1999
• German Library Association…; Volunteers - (not) a chance for libraries ?: a position paper of the German Library Association. Berlin, 1999
• The history of the landscape library. With Martin Tielke. Aurich: East Frisian Landscape 1995.

Translations

• Russian painting of the 20s and 30s [exhibition exchange Russia - Lower Saxony (place of exhibition: Oldenburg)] / [the organ. Museums - for Lower Saxony Museumsdorf Cloppenburg, Lower Saxony Open Air Museum…; for Russia Tula Art Museum, Vladimir-Suzdal State Museum Complex]. Text: Marina Kusina. Ed .: Karl-Heinz Ziessow, Wolfgang Hase. Translated by: Barbara Lison-Ziessow. Cloppenburg, Museumsdorf Cloppenburg, 1993.

Web links

• History of the Bremen City Library
• Literature by and about Barbara Lison in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.ifla-deutschland.de/2017/06/19/grandioses-wahlresult-fuer-barbara-lison-als-vorstandselements/
2. ↑ https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=224349616&privcapId=957934&previousCapId=4362436&previousTitle=American%20Library%20Association