Information material for libraries
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| description | library journal |
| First edition | 1993 |
| Frequency of publication | Twice a year, from 2008 irregular |
| editor | Klaus Schreiber |
| Web link | informationsmittel-fuer-bibliotheken.de |
| Article archive | archive |
| ISSN (print) | 0944-1867 |
| ISSN (online) | 1619-3954 |
Informationsmittel für libraries ( IfB ) is a specialist library journal that has been published by Klaus Schreiber since 1993 .
Reviews of information resources such as encyclopedias , collections of biographies, directories and the like appear in the magazine . The reviews are employed in the five main groups General , cultural studies , social sciences , history and regional geography and natural sciences, technology, medicine divided, which are further subdivided in turn.
The print edition of the magazine was discontinued in 2000 in favor of the electronic publication frequency housed at the Baden-Württemberg Library Service Center and has since been called Information Medium. IFB. Digital review organ for library and science . By 2008, she appeared twice a year since not appear spending more since the reviews are published separately.
The special importance of this specialist librarianship for libraries lies in the fact that, due to the shortage of acquisition funds since the mid-1980s, better purchase decisions can be made for the often very expensive reference works. The reviews are written by specialist librarians and scholars.
Criticism of ideological orientation
In 2016, after research by journalists, criticism of the ideological orientation of the individual speaker Till Kinzel was expressed that "a number of reviews [contain surreptitious advertising for the politically right-wing spectrum] are not scientifically neutral and even misleading". The review body was accused of being a "private one-man business that delivers reviews of the Baden-Württemberg Library Service Center in Constance to the university libraries and ultimately to the reader, which no one refers to theirs Quality controlled ”and based on a narrow circle of reviewers from the right milieu. Thereupon university libraries in Dresden, Leipzig and the library service center Baden-Württemberg announced that they would discontinue the technical service for the review platform.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Horst Meyer, review on: Informationsmittel für Libraries (IFB). Born 1. 1993. In: Bibliothek: Forschung und Praxis , Volume 19, 1995, No. 1, pp. 120–121, accessed on July 21, 2019.
- ↑ a b Manfred Hantke: Without quality control. After TAGBLATT research, the university library stops the new right review carousel In: Schwäbisches Tagblatt from June 28, 2016, accessed on July 10, 2019.