Institute for Library and Information Science (Berlin)

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Institute for Library and Information Science at the
Humboldt University in Berlin
founding 1928
Sponsorship state
place Berlin
state BerlinBerlin Berlin
country GermanyGermany Germany
management Institute director Vivien Petras
Website www.ibi.hu-berlin.de
Institute building Dorotheenstrasse 26

The Institute for Library and Information Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin is the only university-level institute in Germany that combines research and teaching in the fields of information science and librarianship and has the right to award doctorates. The institute is a member of the iSchools group.

Importance of the institute

The Institute for Library and Information Science is the only institute for Library and Information Science at university level in Germany and has the right to award doctorates. Research at the IBI is particularly focused on the paradigm shift in scientific communication and on all aspects of digital information. The focus is on the interaction between people and technologies within information and knowledge processes as well as in the development of new communication cultures.

The teaching and research focus of the institute includes, for example:

  • User research
  • Bibliometrics, Informetrics & Scientometrics
  • Library management
  • Digital libraries
  • Long-term digital archiving
  • Electronic publishing
  • Research data management
  • Information infrastructures
  • Information literacy
  • Information retrieval
  • Linked data
  • Open Access

history

The institute was established in 1953/54 at the Philosophical Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin, initially as a department of library science. In 1954 the institute was founded. A forerunner institute existed from 1928 to 1934 under the direction of a founder of library science, Fritz Milkau .

After German reunification, the two library science courses of the Free University of Berlin and the Humboldt University of Berlin were merged. In the early 2000s, the Humboldt University considered closing the institute; However, it then decided in favor of a fundamental realignment and modernization and also made the necessary financial resources available.

The aim of the realignment started in 2006 was an internationally competitive institution based on the model of the "iSchools" or information school . The new curriculum was given a much stronger focus on digital development and the competencies required in its context. This includes in particular research and research methods. The IBI is a university institute with a strong research orientation. This is where it differs from the institutes and courses of study at the earlier universities of applied sciences.

Professors (selection)

The institute has the following professorships (status: 2018):

  • Digital libraries: Michael Seadle
  • Information Retrieval: Vivien Petras
  • Information Behavior: Elke Greifeneder
  • Information Processing and Analytics: Robert Jäschke

Honorary professors:

Former professors and staff:

courses

The institute offers the following courses:

Bachelor of Arts

  • Library and Information Science (combined course with a second subject)

Master of Arts

  • Information Science (formerly library and information science, direct degree)
  • Library and Information Science (four semester postgraduate distance learning course)
  • Digital Curation (together with Kings College London)
  • Digital data management (together with the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences)

promotion

  • Library and Information Science

certificate

  • Digital information stewardship

Expiring courses

  • Information management and technology (mono course in cooperation with the Institute for Computer Science)

Research projects

Selection of research and development projects since 2009:

  • registry of research data repositories
  • DM2E
  • Academic Careers Understood through Measurement and Norms
  • Europeana V2.0
  • Europeana v3.0
  • Participative Research labOratory for Multimedia and Multilingual Information Systems Evaluation
  • Generalized Analysis of Logs for Automatic Translation and Episodic Analysis of Searches
  • Development of an information infrastructure on copyright law for education and science
  • LOCKSS and KOPAL infrastructure and interoperability
  • EuropeanaConnect
  • Measuring Diversity of Research
  • Meta-Image - Building a distributed virtual research and communication environment for the image discourse in art history
  • Europeana DSI-2 - Access to Digital Resources of European Heritage
  • CLUBS: Overcoming language barriers - Cross-lingual search of bibliographic metadata
  • OCLC research: Understanding the Information Seeking Behavior and Digital Skills of Refugee Migrants during the Job Seeking Process

Publications

The following publications are published by the institute:

  • Berlin handouts on library science
  • LIBREAS - OA magazine at the Institute for Library and Information Science at HU Berlin, which deals with a wide range of topics relevant to library science
  • see also publications of the seminar series "From the Idea to the Book"

literature

  • Information science research and teaching at the Humboldt University of Berlin in: Information - Wissenschaft & Praxis (IWP), Issue 2–3 (Focus issue, April 2013), pp. 69–172. - Munich: deGruyter. ISSN  1619-4292
  • Renate Rohde: On the history of library science education in Berlin
  • Walther Umstätter : 75 years of library science. Retrospect and Prospect. In: Petra Hauke ​​(Ed.): Library Science - quo vadis? A discipline between traditions and visions. Programs, models, research tasks. = Library Science - quo vadis? Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-11734-5 , pp. 81-94.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.ibi.hu-berlin.de/de/institut/lösungen
  2. ↑ www.ibi.hu-berlin.de
  3. ↑ re3data.org
  4. ↑ Digitized Manuscripts to Europeana
  5. ↑ IUWIS ( Memento of the original dated June 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.iuwis.de
  6. ↑ LuKII
  7. ↑ EuropeanaConnect