Elisabeth Niggemann

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Elisabeth Niggemann

Elisabeth Niggemann (born April 2, 1954 in Dortmund ) is a German biologist and librarian. She was Director General of the German National Library from 1999 to 2019 .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1972, Elisabeth Niggemann studied biology and English , received her diploma in biology in 1978 and was promoted to Dr. rer. nat. PhD. In 1985 she passed the first state examination in English for teaching at upper secondary level. The career examination of the higher library service followed in 1987. In the same year she became head of the department for acquisitions at the German Central Library for Medicine in Cologne; she was also a specialist in medicine. In 1991 she was delegated to the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg . There she headed the “Scientific Libraries” section. In 1994 she became director of the University and State Library in Düsseldorf , succeeding Günter Gattermann . In addition, from 1990 to 1995 she held lectureships in the information science course at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf .

Elisabeth Niggemann was chair of the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL) from 2005 to 2011, chair of the European Digital Library Foundation from 2007 to 2011 and a member of the reflection group on digitization set up by the European Commission in 2010/2011.

Your successor with effect from January 2020 is Frank Scholze .

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • We often only become aware of power when it is absent. In: Maybrit Illner (ed.): Women in power. 21 influential women report from reality. Hugendubel, Kreuzlingen, Munich 2005, pp. 129-134.
  • “The black hole” of the 20th century or how do you bring culture and science into the consciousness of a search engine information society? In: Parallel Worlds of the Book. Contributions to book politics, publishing history, bibliophilia and book art. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2008, pp. 155-165.
  • The German National Library and the archiving of the Internet. In: Focus on the media archive. Speeches - Realities - Visions 1999 to 2009 . Lit, Berlin a. Münster, 2010, pp. 169–178.
  • New life for out of print works. The licensing service of the German National Library for out of print works (VW-LiS) . In: Paul Klimpel (ed.): Remember with good reason . Hamburg University Press, Hamburg 2018, pp. 97–111.

literature

  • Michael Fernau, Ute Schwens, German National Library (ed.): The ABC of the DNB. 1999-2019. 20 years Elisabeth Niggemann in the German National Library . Dr. Ernst Hauswedell, Stuttgart 2019, ISBN 978-3-7762-1519-9 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2019120611174890951048 (Editors: Sandra Baumgart, Michael Fernau, Susanne Oehlschläger, Ute Schwens, Christian Sälzer, Martin Schmitz-Kuhl ).

Web links

Commons : Elisabeth Niggemann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Frank Scholze replaces Elisabeth Niggemann at the head of the German National Library. German National Library, December 13, 2019, accessed on December 13, 2019 (press release).
  2. ^ Deutscher Bibliotheksverband eV: dbv - dbv-Newsletter No. 116 2018 (March 8th). Retrieved September 5, 2019 .
  3. Tweet from DNB_Aktuelles. May 20, 2019, accessed May 20, 2019 .
  4. Sponsor of the book: Börsenverein honors Elisabeth Niggemann. Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, December 13, 2019, accessed on December 13, 2019 (German, press release).