Konrad Umlauf
Konrad Umlauf (born September 4, 1952 in Berlin ) is a German librarian , author and since 1992 university professor at the Institute for Library and Information Science in Berlin.
Life
Umlauf studied German, economics, business education and journalism at the Free University of Berlin from 1972 to 1977 . After completing his studies, he became a library clerk in Berlin-Tiergarten and, in 1978, lecturer for the German Academic Exchange Service in Helsinki . After training as a qualified librarian and receiving his doctorate in Berlin, Umlauf first worked at the America Memorial Library before becoming head of the Ludwigsburg City Library in 1983 . In 1989 a three-year position as director at the Heilbronn City Library followed .
In 1992 Umlauf was appointed university professor at the Free University of Berlin, and in 1994 he moved to the newly established Institute for Library and Information Science (IBI) at the Humboldt University in Berlin .
In 2015 he was awarded the Karl Preusker Medal .
In 2017, the IBI honored Konrad Umlauf with a commemorative publication on his 65th birthday.
Web links
- Works by and about Konrad Umlauf in the German Digital Library
- Konrad Umlauf on the staff pages of the Institute for Library and Information Science at the Humboldt University in Berlin : [2]
Individual evidence
- ↑ Professor Dr. Konrad Umlauf receives the Karl Preusker Medal 2015 . Press release of the Bibliothek & Information Deutschland from September 23, 2015. Accessed on September 24, 2015.
- ↑ Petra Hauke, Andrea Kaufmann, Vivien Petras (Ed.): Library. Research for practice. Festschrift for Konrad Umlauf on the occasion of his 65th birthday . Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter Saur, 2017. XV, 725 pages. ISBN 978-3-11-051971-6 [1]
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Umlauf, Konrad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German librarian, author and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th September 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |