Beate Tröger (librarian)

Beate Tröger (* 1961 in Dinslaken ) is a German librarian and has been the director of the University and State Library of Münster since May 1, 2004 .

Life

Beate Tröger studied philosophy, educational science, German literature, and art history at the Ruhr University in Bochum and at the University of Duisburg-Essen . In 1993 she was awarded a Dr. phil. did his doctorate and then completed a legal traineeship for academic librarianship at the University of Applied Sciences for Libraries in Cologne until 1995. From 1995 to 2000 she worked at the Dortmund University Library and at the Duisburg-Essen University Library , each with a focus on the "digital library". At the same time, from 1997 to 1998 she held a substitute professorship at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences (today Cologne University of Technology ) with a focus on "Organization of information facilities". In 2000 she was appointed Deputy Director of the German Institute for International Educational Research in Frankfurt am Main , a position she held until 2004, although in 2001 she was offered a position at the Information Science Department at Cologne University of Applied Sciences. The Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster appointed her director of its university and state library on May 1, 2004.

Beate Tröger is a member of the Standing Commission for Digital Infrastructures of the University Rectors ' Conference , a member and deputy chairwoman of the board of the German Library Association , a member of the Advisory Board of the German National Library and a member of the Board of Trustees of the German Central Library for Medicine in Cologne, s. ZB MED - Information Center for Life Sciences . From 2000 to 2004 she was commission representative of the German Society for Educational Science in the IuK initiative of the scientific professional societies, from 2004 to 2007 a member of the think tank “Information and Documentation, Libraries, Information Society and Knowledge Management” of the British Council and from 2006 to April 2012 chairwoman of the subcommittee on national literature supply of the German Research Foundation . From 2006 to 2011 she was a member, deputy chairwoman and chairwoman of the committee "Scientific Libraries and Information Systems" (AWBI) of the German Research Foundation and from 2009 to 2011 chairwoman of the German Initiative for Network Information (DINI). She was also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF) in Frankfurt am Main from 2011 to 2015 .

Web links

• Curriculum vitae on the website of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster
• New director of the University Library in Münster