Library Information Switzerland

Library Information Switzerland (BIS) is also the association of Swiss libraries and documentation centers of all sizes and types and the professional association of library and documentation staff. It has around 300 collective and 1300 individual members.

In August 2018 it was decided to merge the two library associations BIS and SAB (Swiss Association of General Public Libraries) to form the new association Bibliosuisse in 2019 .

General

The association's office is located in Aarau . It is available to institutions and staff from libraries and information services as an information and networking center. BIS organizes specialist events and a training program.

BIS was created on January 1st, 2008 from the merger of the Association of Libraries and Librarians of Switzerland (BBS) and the Swiss Association for Documentation (SVD) .

In cooperation with the Association of Swiss Archivists , BIS publishes the specialist journal Arbido and, through the I + D training delegation , provides basic vocational training in information and documentation in Switzerland.

Interest and working groups

Members organize themselves in interest groups and working groups. In addition to technical concerns, the joint promotion and representation of interests also results from the same activity, training or region.

Working group of German-speaking Swiss secondary school libraries

The aim of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutschschweizer Mittelschulbibliotheken (ADM) is to network the media libraries of the middle schools in German-speaking Switzerland. It is legally organized as an association.

Just like the public libraries and university libraries in Switzerland, the middle school media libraries also offer a collection tailored to their users, which is strongly based on the profiles of the individual schools and can range from a few thousand to over fifty thousand media.

In order to promote contact, cooperation and further education, the ADM offers its members twice a year the opportunity to get to know a particular institution better and to learn about the latest developments in the field of library science and related topics.

In cooperation with the Zurich Secondary School and Vocational Training Office, the Swiss secondary school mediotheques operate the joint research portal digithek.ch , which was launched in 2003 in order to facilitate and improve the information skills of students in the digital age. From this shared portal, both the individual media libraries and their catalogs as well as free and chargeable reference works data collections can be accessed; the latter can be used free of charge via the school networks.

Library Information Eastern Switzerland

Library Information Ostschweiz represents the interests of those working in the information and documentation sector in Eastern Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein .

literature

Herbert Staub: Library Association 1897–2017: Constantly Changing , in: Libraries in Switzerland: Innovation through Cooperation: Festschrift for Susanna Bliggenstorfer on the occasion of her resignation as director of the Zurich Central Library (pp. 461–470). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110553796-033 (open access)