German Internet Library

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German Internet Library
Logo of the German Internet Library
founding 2002
Library type Virtual library
Website http://www.deutscheinternetbibliothek.de

The German Internet Library (DIB) was a cooperation network of more than 50 public and academic libraries and the Library Service Center Baden-Württemberg (BSZ) under the patronage of the German Library Association (dbv), which jointly offered a German-language information portal and an information service . The portal made it possible for Internet users to access high-quality information quickly and easily. The DIB offered free e-mail information on all knowledge questions. The DIB librarians also used their knowledge to find only noteworthy sites on the Internetto be included in the DIB catalog. The database comprised well over 6000 links . The quality of the entries was regularly checked by libraries in Germany and Austria.

General

The DIB emerged from a project funded by the Bertelsmann Foundation and the DBV and was transferred to the normal operations of the BSZ after the project was completed in March 2008. By participating in the DIB, the participating libraries and the BSZ contribute to the realization of a freely accessible German-language information portal on the Internet. In addition to the information service, for which librarians across Germany answer questions on a wide variety of topics, almost 70 lecturers jointly develop and evaluate the most important links and compile them in a commented link catalog.

history

With the beginning of the internet boom in Germany at the beginning of the 1990s, public libraries also started offering internet places in their rooms. While academic libraries took the initiative as early as the late 1980s, albeit some time later than the United States, Internet offers in public libraries only spread with access to the World Wide Web and a broader provider network.

1996 to 1998

The origin of the internet library goes back to 1996. This year the Bremen City Library started the Internet project BINE (Library + Internet = Navigation and Development). The aim of this Bremen project was to offer internet access in the library and to set up a web database with accessible internet sources on the everyday topics of "environment" and "computer". In addition, internet usage habits of library customers with the still young medium should be researched. An important secondary aspect was the question of the extent to which the developed procedures can be integrated into the library work processes. The transferability and integration of the developed procedures for a nationwide network was also examined.

The BINE project ended in spring 1998. Important results and developments (database, design, website) were taken up again in a later follow-up project (German Internet Library 2002 - 2004).

1998 to 2001

An important finding from the BINE project was that the development of Internet sources and their evaluation in view of the explosively developing medium of the Internet cannot be achieved by a single public library. The follow-up project ILekS (Internet Lektorats-Service) resumed work on the evaluation and development of Internet sources, but the basis of the topics and institutions involved broadened. In addition to the Bremen City Library , the Berlin Central and State Library , the Schleswig-Holstein Central Library and the Paderborn City Library took part in this follow-up project . The joint library network (GBV) in Göttingen acted as host for the database . Internet resources on the following topics were selected and evaluated: travel, Berlin-Brandenburg, the environment, computers, computer games, medicine / cancer, pop / rock music, classical music.

During this time, many libraries began to set up their own websites and, at the same time, made bookmark collections available to their customers. With ILekS a virtual service offer was created that complemented and expanded the previous offerings of the libraries. In the future, the idea was to link the ILekS database with the respective library catalogs (OPACs) at the local level.

The project phase provided further important findings for the development of a sustainable offer, but also showed that significantly more contributors have to be won for an acceptable database. However, it can be stated that the project has significantly improved access to qualified information on the Internet. In 2001 the project ended.

2002 to 2004

In 2002, the Bertelsmann Foundation , the Sisis company, the German Library Association (dbv) and the ILekS consortium joined forces to form a cooperation network. Under the umbrella of this cooperation network, 71 libraries worked on a professional, customer-oriented information portal. Librarians selected internet sources for a topic tree consisting of 20 topic areas, described the content of the sources and added technical comments. In addition, an e-mail information service was introduced for the first time, which could be reached 24 hours a day (7/24), 7 days a week. The inquiries were answered within 24 hours.

2005 to 2007

The project management by the Bertelsmann Stiftung expired at the end of 2004. In the following 3 years the Dresden City Library took over the management of the project. From January 1, 2005, the sole project sponsor was the German Library Association. During this time, the DIB was able to further establish itself and consolidate its service offerings. At the same time, a viable, sustainable solution for the time after the project term had expired was discussed. After the hosting was taken care of by the University Library Center of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (HBZ) in the previous years, this task has now changed to the Baden-Württemberg Library Service Center.

2008 to 2013

Since January 1, 2008, the DIB has been in regular operation under the umbrella of the Baden-Württemberg Library Service Center. Partners in the new German Internet Library cooperation network were the BSZ and the libraries participating in the network. In August 2013, the discontinuation of the service as of December 31, 2013 was announced, which was previously decided in a meeting of the German Library Association .

literature

  • Erwin Miedtke: Answers around the clock. The German Internet Library wanted as a cooperative offer / comrade-in-arms. In: BuB: Forum Library and Information. Vol. 62/2010 / Issue 2, pp. 138–141
  • Engelbert Plassmann , Hermann Rösch, Jürgen Seefeldt, Konrad Umlauf: Libraries and the information society in Germany. An introduction. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-447-05230-9 .
  • Birte Koch: The German Internet Library: Presentation of the development and operation of an online information portal for public libraries. (pdf) - Diploma thesis in the librarianship course of the Faculty of Information and Communication Sciences, Cologne University of Applied Sciences, 2004. (10.27 MB).
  • Jan Steinberg: Presentation slides from the event "Services of the BSZ for Public Libraries" on October 16, 2006 in Stuttgart .
  • Erwin Miedtke: ileks: Mileage and component of the distribution of online services of public libraries. In: Library: Research and Practice. - Berlin: de Gruyter Saur, ISSN  0341-4183 , ISSN  0341-4183 , ZDB -ID 243153-1 , vol. 26.2002, pp. 044-050
  • Stefanie Schütte: The editing of the Internet by public libraries - methods, opportunities and difficulties. Diploma thesis in the subject of information transfer ÖB course "Public Libraries" of the University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart - University of the Media. Stuttgart, October 2002
  • Erwin Miedtke: Ileks @ oeb. Content manpower vision. In: BuB: Forum Library and Information. Vol. 53/2001 / issue 5, pp. 334-5
  • Erwin Miedtke: ILEKS - On the current status of the database and the ILEKS consortium. In: Library Service, Vol. 34, 2000, No. 7/8: 1182–1184
  • Barbara Lison: Internet Access in Public Libraries - Structuring Needs and Possibilities for Online Access to Information and Knowledge: Project; BINE (library + internet = navigation + indexing); Final report / Bremen City Library, in Zsarb. with the telecommunications research group, University of Bremen. - Foreword: Barbara Lison. Bremen, 1999
  • Erwin Miedtke: A proofreading service for internet sources. ILEKS goes live: a work report. In: BuB: Forum Library and Information. Vol. 51/1999 / issue 10, pp. 622-624
  • Erwin Miedtke: From BINE to Ileks. In: Internet in public libraries - up (to) date! Edited by Marion Sommerfeld. Dbi materials 181. Berlin: Deutsches Bibliotheksinstitut 1999, pp. 67–81. ISBN 3-87068-981-1 .
  • Erwin Miedtke, Barbara Lison and Birte Plutat: Cooperation between lecturers for Internet offers! In: Bibliotheksdienst, 32 H. 9, Vol. 32.1998, 9, pp. 1609–1613
  • Heidi Best: Internet: BINE project at the Bremen City Library. In: Bibliotheksdienst, 30 H. 12, Vol. 30.1996, 12, pp. 2089-2090

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara Lison: Internet Access in Public Libraries - Structuring Needs and Possibilities for Online Access to Information and Knowledge: Project; BINE (library + internet = navigation + indexing); Final report / Bremen City Library, in Zsarb. with the telecommunications research group, University of Bremen. - Foreword: Barbara Lison. Bremen, 1999
  2. ↑ Erwin Miedtke, Barbara Lison and Birte Plutat: Lektoratkooperation for Internet offers! In: Bibliotheksdienst, 32 H. 9, Vol. 32.1998, 9, pp. 1609–1613
  3. ↑ Heidi Best: Internet: BINE project at the Bremen City Library. In: Bibliotheksdienst, 30 H. 12, Vol. 30.1996, 12, pp. 2089-2090
  4. ↑ http://www.ub.uni-dortmund.de/Ibkon/presse3/schmoll.html
  5. ↑ DIB will cease operations on December 31, 2013. German Internet Library, August 19, 2013, accessed on December 6, 2013 .
  6. ↑ German Internet Library ends at the end of the year. (No longer available online.) In: »BuB - Forum Bibliothek und Information« (online edition). December 20, 2013, archived from the original ; accessed on January 31, 2014 .
  7. ↑ hdms.bsz-bw.de/files/47/schuette_stefanie.pdf