German Library Institute

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The German Library Institute (DBI) was a service facility for the entirety of the German libraries . It was founded by the Berlin State Law of May 22, 1978 (Law Gazette for Berlin, p. 1114) as an institution under public law and was jointly financed by the federal government and the states until the end of 1999 in accordance with the provisions of the so-called Blue List, now the Leibniz Association . It was based in Berlin .

history

On the basis of a controversial recommendation by the Science Council, the federal and state governments decided to end the funding. The State of Berlin dissolved the institute by law of October 6, 1999 (law and ordinance sheet p. 544) on January 1, 2000 and transferred employees and processing tasks to a former German Library Institute (EDBI), from which the employees were placed in new positions should be. At the same time, library policy was called upon to transfer indispensable tasks of the DBI to a new sponsor. A successor organization was ultimately not set up. The supraregional tasks of the library system are now to be carried out by the decentralized competence network for libraries (KNB) founded in 2004 .

The institute managed itself as a legal institution under public law. Management was incumbent on the director, who was bound by the decisions of a board of trustees and subject to its control. The Federal Government and the Länder were primarily represented on the Board of Trustees, but also the German Association of Cities , the Association of German Cities and Municipalities and the German Association of Libraries . The librarianship was the responsibility of an advisory board in which libraries of all types and sizes were represented. The state of Berlin exercised legal supervision .

tasks

According to the law, the tasks of the DBI lay in the area of ​​coordination, advice, standardization and modernization of the German library system . The German libraries owe instruments such as the journal database , the union catalog, the SUBITO document delivery service , the German library statistics and the maintenance of the revisions of the classifications general systematics for public libraries (ASB, publication 1999, revised 2002) and classification for general libraries (KAB, publication 2004). At the same time, the institute was the publisher of important publications, such as the library service , the current school library , the music library forum and the DBI materials . In the course of the more than three years of winding up the German Library Institute by mid-2003, a considerable part of these services could not be maintained. In particular, the institute's central advisory and initiative competence must be viewed as lost.

literature

  • Working reports of the German Library Institute
  • Vulpius, Axel, 1991: On the library policy of the federal government in the Federal Republic of Germany 1965–1980 . In: LIBER Quarterly , pp. 427–450 (especially on the history and foundation of the institute).
  • Printed matter of the Berlin House of Representatives No. 7/1117 from January 6, 1978 (especially on the establishment of the institute)
  • Printed matter of the Berlin House of Representatives No. 13/4026 of August 4, 1999 (especially on the procedure for winding up the institute. Also in library service year 33 (1999) issue 10 [1] ).
  • Printed matter of the Berlin House of Representatives No. 15/1203 from January 14, 2003 (especially on the course of the settlement).
  • Ad hoc working group “Future of the German Library Institute” of the Standing Conference of Ministers of Education in the Federal Republic of Germany: Concept on indispensable supra-regional library services from April 6, 1998. In: Zeitschaft für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie. Volume 45 (1998), No. 4 (this was the first version for which the ministers of education asked for a “specification” - in other words: abridgment). In library service year 33 (1999) issue 4 pp. 657–659 there is a statement from the perspective of the special libraries [2] .
  • Concept for securing the indispensable supraregional library services from March 22, 1999 (Annex to KMK circular no. 131/99 of March 31, 1999).
  • Tölle, Volker, 1999: On the situation and future of the DBI In: Library service, 33rd volume, issue 5, pp. 821–822.
  • Flemming, Arend, 2001: Handling and redesign of the central coordination and service tasks in the German library system . In: Library Service, Volume 35, Issue 9, pp. 1107–1116.
  • Funke, Juliane, 2001: From the “German Library Institute” to the “Innovation Center for Libraries” (PDF; 313 kB). In: Planning and Design. Festival ceremony for Günter Baron. Berlin, pp. 107-116. (about the now unsuccessful attempt to found a rescue facility for the most important tasks)
  • Comment on the German Library Institute in Berlin from November 1997. In: Wissenschaftsrat. Statements on Blue List institutes. Volume II. Cologne 1998, pp. 7-50.
  • Kummer, Dietmar, 2003: Robbery in Berlin or The End of the DBI. Letter to the editor. ( Memento from February 11, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) In: Buch und Bibliothek , Volume 55, Issue 3, pp. 146–147.
  • Schwarz, Helga, 2017: The German Library Institute in the field of tension between mandate and political interests . Simon publishing house for library knowledge. Berlin, ISBN 978-3-945610-37-4 .

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