Ludger Syré

Ludger Syré (born July 26, 1953 in Münster ) is a German librarian and historian . From 1987 to 2020 he worked as a specialist at the Badische Landesbibliothek , where he was in charge of both digitization and the Baden-Württemberg state bibliography .

Portrait of Ludger Syré in his office in the Badische Landesbibliothek (2017)

Life

Syré studied history and German literature in Freiburg im Breisgau , Munich and Tübingen from 1972 to 1978 . He then received his doctorate at the Institute for Eastern European History at the University of Tübingen and completed his legal clerkship for academic library services in Tübingen and Cologne from 1983 to 1985 .

During his service at the Badische Landesbibliothek, he played a key role in setting up the digitization workshop. Today the Badische Landesbibliothek is one of the most important digitization centers in the German southwest.

For more than 30 years he was chairman of the regional bibliography working group in the German Library Association. V. , was responsible for the coordination of the education at the Badische Landesbibliothek for a long time and was responsible for the procurement of regionally relevant titles for the area of ​​the regional bibliography.

Syré is also a lecturer at the Chair for Contemporary History at the Institute for History at the University of Mannheim and at the House of Competence at KIT Karlsruhe .

His academic and journalistic focus is on the history of National Socialism in Baden, the history of Russia and the Soviet Union, as well as the history of libraries and the German library system . Together with Jürgen Seefeldt, Ludger Syré published the portals to the past and future - libraries in Germany for the first time in 2003 . The book has seen several new editions and has been translated into several languages.

literature

• Julia von Hiller: Ludger Syré. An appreciation . In: Regional Bibliographies. Research data and sources of cultural memory. Liber amicorum for Ludger Syré , ed. v. Maria Elisabeth Müller, Ulrich Hagenah and Lars Jendral, Hildesheim u. a .: Georg Olms Verlag, 2019, pp. 11–26.

Publications (selection)

• The history of the library - a chronicle in dates and pictures . In: Book - Reader - Library: Festschrift of the Badische Landesbibliothek on the new building , ed. by Gerhard Römer, Karlsruhe 1992, pp. 13–31.
• The leader of the Upper Rhine: Robert Wagner. Gauleiter, Reich governor in Baden and head of civil administration in Alsace . In: The leaders of the province: Nazi biographies from Baden and Württemberg , ed. by Michael Kißener and Joachim Scholtyseck, Konstanz 1997, pp. 733-779.
• Badische Landesbibliothek, Karlsruhe . In: Regional libraries in Germany: with a view of Austria and Switzerland , ed. by Bernd Hagenau, Frankfurt a. M. 2000, pp. 358-363.
• Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek . In: State library building in Germany, Austria and Switzerland: new buildings, extensions and conversions , ed. by Detlev Hellfaier, Frankfurt a. M. 2003, pp. 53-77.
• Sinking in the phosphorus fire of the aerial bombs. The destruction of the Badische Landesbibliothek in the Second World War . In: Book and Library , Volume 57 (2005) 9, pp. 621–628 (digitized version)
• The Badische Landesbibliothek in World War II - downfall and new beginning . In: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins 154 (2006), pp. 493-516.
• Printed and electronic. A look at the history of the Karlsruhe address book on the occasion of its digitization . In: Badische Heimat 92 (2012) 3, pp. 480–493.
• The dawn of a new era: the beginnings of the digitization workshop and the digital collections at the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe . In: Digitization in regional and state libraries , ed. by Irmgard Siebert, Frankfurt a. M. 2012, pp. 173-194.
• The minutes of the Baden state parliament in digital form. The contribution of the Badische Landesbibliothek to the state anniversary . In: Badische Heimat 93 (2013) 2, pp. 272–284.
• Digitization of cultural assets in the Baden State Library using historical newspapers as an example . In: BIT-Online 18 (2015) 5, pp. 403–412.
• Browse digitally - Karlsruhe newspapers as a source of history . In: Badische Heimat 96 (2016) 2, pp. 207–224.
• The manuscript dispute - a unique event in the fifty-year history of the Badische Bibliothekgesellschaft . In: 50 Years of the Badische Bibliotheksgesellschaft Karlsruhe , ed. by Hansgeorg Schmidt-Bergmann, Karlsruhe 2016, pp. 31–43.
• Five years of digitization of cultural assets at the Badische Landesbibliothek - an interim result . In: Bibliotheksdienst 50 (2016) 10/11, pp. 943–959.
• Who sang the Euryanthe? A look at the digitized theater tickets of the Karlsruhe court theater . In: Badische Heimat 97 (2017) 2, pp. 238-258.
• With Jürgen Seefeldt: Portals to the past and future - libraries in Germany . On behalf of Bibliotheken & Information Deutschland e. V. (BID) published, 5th edition, Hildesheim 2017.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Julia von Hiller: Ludger Syré. An appreciation . In: Maria Elisabeth Müller, Ulrich Hagenah and Lars Jendral (eds.): Regional bibliographies . Research data and sources of cultural memory. Liber amicorum for Ludger Syré . Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim u. a. 2019, p. 11-26 .