Library clerkship

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The library clerkship in Germany is the two-year civil service preparatory service for the higher library service. It concludes with a career examination that grants access to academic or public library services (in some cases combined).

General

The application requirement is a successfully completed, at least three-year university degree in any subject. As a rule, however, the libraries advertise the positions for graduates in specific subject areas as required. The legal clerkship is divided into practical training at a library and theoretical training. This is either completed as a postgraduate distance learning course with fixed attendance times at the Institute for Library Science (IBI) of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin during the entire 24-month legal traineeship parallel to the practical training, or it follows the first, exclusively practical 12-month training part The library also takes part in the theoretical part of training at the Bavarian Library Academy (BAB) in Munich, which also lasts 12 months .

"Berlin Model" "Munich model"
Place of theoretical training Institute for Library and Information Science Bavarian Library Academy
Supporting institution Humboldt University of Berlin Bavarian State Library in Munich
Providing federal states
  • Berlin
  • Bremen
  • Federation
  • Hesse
  • Lower Saxony
  • Schleswig-Holstein
  • Baden-Württemberg
  • Bavaria
  • Lower Saxony
  • Rhineland-Palatinate
Schedule 24 months of practical experience with parallel distance learning with attendance times 12 months of practice

12 months of theory in face-to-face classes

Examination achievements
  • 1 term paper
  • 3 exams lasting a maximum of 5 hours
  • Thesis (50 pages)
  • 40-minute oral career test
  • 2 term papers ("written presentations")
  • 3 4-hour exams
  • oral career test
Virtual learning support
  • Lecture notes can be called up from the server

Training situation in the various federal states

Currently (2020) the federal government and the states of Baden-Württemberg , Bavaria , Berlin , Bremen , Hesse , Lower Saxony , Rhineland-Palatinate and Schleswig-Holstein are training library trainees. Brandenburg , Hamburg , North Rhine-Westphalia , Saarland and Saxony-Anhalt have either discontinued the internal administration training of librarians or are leaving it on hold.

In Thuringia (since 2001) and in Saxony (since 2008) the training takes the form of a traineeship , which is structurally similar to a clerkship, but is organized under private law and therefore does not end with a career test. The library traineeship in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania currently only serves to qualify people who are already employed in the state service.

In addition to the internal administration training in the clerkship and traineeship , an accredited university degree also enables access to the civil servant higher library service. Corresponding master’s degree programs are offered in particular at the Institute for Library and Information Science at the Humboldt University of Berlin (full-time degree and part-time further education degree ) and at the Institute for Information Science at the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne (part-time further education degree ). Graduates of these courses can - in accordance with the respective federal or state regulations - be officially employed as career applicants after two years of full-time employment and are therefore on the same level as library trainees.

Historical development

As early as 1578, Hugo Blotius wrote that librarians must have diligence, trustworthiness, specialist knowledge and language skills and thus laid the foundation for a library profession. In a report by Johann Matthias Gesner , librarians are required to have enormous language skills, among other things: Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, Samaritan, Ethiopian, Greek, Modern Greek, Latin, French, Italian, English, Spanish, Norwegian and Danish should be understood by a librarian, “the other At least he should be able to see whether the languages ​​are Hungarian, Polish or Bohemian - not to mention the Old Low and Plato German dialects ”. Until the end of the 19th century, scholars and professors therefore also took on the duties of academic librarians on a part-time basis.

It was not until the 19th century, when the growth in literature could no longer be managed through part-time work, did z. B. In 1829 Martin Schrettinger set up a "librarian nursery school" at the court library in Munich and Anton Klette spoke out in 1871 for the "independence of the library profession". These demands were then implemented with decrees in Prussia in 1893 and Bavaria in 1905, which established independent training for academic librarians. Initially, the entry requirement was a completed doctorate. In 1938, the Reich Ministry of Science, Education and National Education laid down uniform study and examination regulations by decree, which stipulated a doctorate / state examination / diploma as the entry requirement, two years as a training period and as a training location for the theoretical part Berlin or Munich. After the Second World War , the Berlin training branch in Cologne was continued in West Germany from 1949 and in 1967 the offer was supplemented by the training location Frankfurt am Main. In the GDR, on the other hand, training continued to be provided at the Humboldt University in Berlin, where since the 1970s there has also been the option of two-year distance learning.

After reunification , trainee lawyers were able to complete the theoretical part of the legal traineeship in one of the following six cities up to 2000: Berlin ( IBI ), Darmstadt, Frankfurt am Main, Cologne ( Cologne University of Applied Sciences ), Munich ( BAB ) and Stuttgart. In 2000, North Rhine-Westphalia decided not to train any more trainee lawyers in the future. The subsequent restructuring process was completed in 2003 by a position paper from a working group of the Conference of Ministers of Education. In this it was stated that a coexistence of the internal administrative traineeships in Berlin and Munich as well as the external postgraduate courses in Berlin and Cologne was “to be welcomed” from a competitive point of view, but was also sufficient due to the relatively low demand. An annual demand of around 30 apprenticeship positions is to be expected and after three two-year training cycles, i.e. after six years, the situation has to be re-evaluated.

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Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Subject-specific study regulations for the theoretical training of library trainees. Subject-specific examination regulations for the career examination of library trainees. In: Institute for Library and Information Science. July 15, 2019, accessed March 26, 2020 .
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  8. ^ Anton Klette: The independence of the library profession, with consideration for the German university libraries . Teubner, Leipzig 1871 ( bsb-muenchen.de ).
  9. ↑ Decree regarding the qualification for academic library service at the Royal Library of Berlin and the Royal University Libraries . In: O. Hartwig (Hrsg.): Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen . tape 11 . Harrassowitz, 1894, ISSN  0044-4081 , p. 77-78 ( digizeitschriften.de ).
  10. ^ H. Schnorr von Carolsfeld: Reorganization of the admission to the library career in Bavaria . In: Paul Schwenke (Hrsg.): Central sheet for libraries . tape 22 . Harrassowitz, 1905, ISSN  0044-4081 , p. 318–323 ( digizeitschriften.de ).
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