Authority library
As a government library that are libraries designated by a authority be established and maintained to meet the specific information needs of the Board of Directors and staff to cover the Authority.
The public authority library is usually an organizational unit of the supporting institution and provides its services primarily to the public authority's employees. As part of the administrative assistance , the government library also supports users from other government agencies, and many government libraries are also open to the public.
In addition to the strict administrative legal meaning, the term authority library is understood in the library sense not only to include government and administrative ( executive ) libraries , but also parliamentary libraries ( legislative ) and court libraries ( judiciary ). Libraries of other corporations under public law such as B. Chambers of Commerce and Industry to the government libraries.
In the federal system of the Federal Republic of Germany, there are official libraries at the federal level (e.g. in the federal ministries, the Bundestag and the Federal Constitutional Court), the states (e.g. in the specialist authorities or ministries of the states) and the municipalities (e.g. B. as a council library or administrative library) as well as at federal and state institutions (e.g. Federal Highway Research Institute or state statistical offices).
Duties of government libraries
Authorities libraries are typologically classed as specialist libraries . As a rule, they differ from other specialist libraries in their pronounced service and user orientation. Due to the direct integration into the administrative apparatus, the library is particularly familiar with the internal work processes of the authority and the expectations of the library users and can design its information services in such a way that they can be incorporated into the work process as directly as possible. These services include a .:
- the immediate procurement of literature
- the unconditional acquisition of gray literature in particular
- extensive research
- Establishment of reference libraries
- Magazine circulation
- Copy and scan services
- documentary activities
Associations
- The working group of parliamentary and government libraries acts as a representative of the interests of the government libraries in Germany .
- In the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions , government libraries are organized in the Government Libraries Section .
- Association of Lower Saxony Authorities Libraries
- Thuringian Working Group of Authorities Libraries (ThABB)
List of government libraries
literature
- Working group of parliamentary and government libraries: Leipzig Memorandum The government library in the age of electronic information adopted by the general assembly of the APBB at the 2nd Leipzig Congress for Information and Library Leipzig 24.3.2004 , Wiesbaden, 2004, 12 pages ( PDF )
- Nancy Bolt and Suzanne Burge (Eds.): Guidelines for Government Libraries (= IFLA Professional Reports 118). IFLA Headquarters, The Hague 2010. ISBN 978-90-77897-40-9 ( PDF )
- Jackenkroll, Melanie: Conception and development of acquisition profiles at German government libraries using the example of the library of the German Patent and Trademark Office / by Melanie Jackenkroll. - Berlin: Institute for Library and Information Science of the Humboldt University of Berlin, 2011. - 113 S.: graph. Darst. - ( Berlin handouts on library and information science; 313 ) ( PDF )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Plassmann, Engelbert; Rösch, Herrmann; Seefeldt, Jürgen; Umlauf, Konrad (2011): Libraries and Information Society in Germany. An introduction. 2., thorough. revised and exp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz., P. 94., ISBN 978-3-447-06474-3
- ↑ Working group of parliamentary and government libraries
- ^ IFLA Government Libraries Section