Klaus Bock

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Klaus Bock (born February 4, 1930 in Kiel ; † August 8, 1995 ) was a German librarian.

Life

Klaus Bock grew up in Bad Oldesloe and attended the Theodor Mommsen School until he graduated from high school. He studied biology, German and philosophy as a subject at the University of Kiel . After the first state examination, a doctorate followed, which he completed in 1959 with a dissertation on Thomas Mann's view of history.

He decided on a career in library and completed his legal clerkship at the University and City Library of Cologne by 1961 . It was here that he found his first job. From 1969 to 1973, as founding director, he shaped the reorganization of the Hohenheim University Library . During his time in Hohenheim, he was already active as a consultant in the decision-making process that started in 1973 for the (re) unification of the Lübeck City Library with the Hanseatic City's public library into a general library based on the model of a public library in a considerably expanded building on Hundestrasse led. Klaus Bock became the first director of the new facility and shaped its orientation through reorientation of personnel and acquisitions, which was tailored entirely to user interests and numbers and thereby gave up several traditional fields of work.

In early 1989, the Berlin Senator for Culture, Volker Hassemer, appointed him director of the America Memorial Library . Klaus Bock took up this position on April 3, 1989. The already existing difficult working conditions, such as the repeatedly postponed expansion of the library and cuts in funding, intensified in autumn 1989 with the turnaround due to enormously increased requirements. As early as December 1989, the library staff council accused him of turning the AGB into a cheap library and expressed its distrust of the management. In October 1990, Klaus Bock was retired for health reasons .

His library-political views, such as the concentration on media and possible uses, which he held with great conviction, hit the spirit of the times, but sometimes had severe negative effects on personnel planning and old inventory and are viewed more critically in retrospect.

Fonts

  • Concept and image of history in Thomas Mann. Diss. Phil. Kiel 1959
  • Collection and use of biological literature in the Cologne institute libraries and in the university and city libraries. Cologne 1961
  • with Margarete Rehm: Directory of scientific journals in the area of ​​the University of Cologne. Cologne: University and City Library 1966
  • with Peter Voigt: New building of Lübeck City Library; [Planning report]. Lübeck 1979

literature

  • Jörg Fligge , Gerd Lojewski: Klaus Bock in memory. In: Buch und Bibliothek 48 (1996), p. 85

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See his programmatic essays: Scientific City Library and Public Library: Plea for the merger of municipal libraries. In: Book and Library 25 (1973), pp. 3–23 and Lübeck City Library: New conception and new building. In: Der Wagen 1988, pp. 175–184
  2. ↑ See u. a. his essay The new staff model of the Lübeck City Library. In: Library and Book in Past and Present (1976), pp. 206–216
  3. ↑ Book and Library 42 (1990), pp. 107-108
  4. ↑ See for example: 97th German Librarians' Day in Mannheim 2008: Moving Knowledge: Libraries in the Information Society. ( Journal for Libraries and Bibliography , special volume 96) ISBN 9783465036067 , p. 354, and Jörg Fligge: The development of the Lübeck city library since 1945. In: The scientific city library and the development of municipal library structures in Europe since 1945. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2001 (Wolfenbütteler Writings on the history of the book industry 34) ISBN 3-447-04406-3 , pp. 41-138, here pp. 88ff
personal data
SURNAME Buck, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1995