Michael Fernau

Michael Fernau (born July 19, 1955 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German lawyer and library director.

Life

Michael Fernau was born in 1955 in Frankfurt am Main as the second child of a merchant family and grew up in boarding schools in the Frankfurt area. After graduating from high school in Usingen im Taunus , he studied law and political science in Giessen and Frankfurt, after which he took postgraduate studies in administration and finance in Speyer and Siegburg .

From 1988 Fernau worked as a consultant at the Oberfinanzdirektion Frankfurt am Main and as head of authorities in Hesse , before becoming head of the central department of the German Library in Frankfurt in 2001 . In 2008, the Federal President appointed him Director of the German Library in Leipzig and permanent representative of the Director General of the German National Library . In this function he was also head of the German Music Archive .

In the public debate about the preference for digital parallel editions for use in the German National Library, Fernau took the position that online editions such as ebooks and pdf versions are superior to printed books and that reading behavior will adapt accordingly. As an example, he referred to the advantages of using digitized telephone books over printed telephone books. However, due to user protests, the German National Library has partly returned to the old practice, according to which online versions and printed books should be treated equally.

Fonts

Law on The German Library, Dialogue with Libraries 1/2004, pp. 14–22
German Music Archive in Leipzig, Forum Musikbibliothek 2/2011, pp. 101–104
A new house for magazines, museums and music. BITonline 14 (2011), No 3: pp. 296-301
Competition for beauty, cost and function; Zeitschrift für Bibliothekwesen und Bibliographie, Volume 60 (2013), No. 3–4: pp. 149–156, doi: 10.3196 / 18642950131253467

Web links

Literature by and about Michael Fernau in the catalog of the German National Library
Interview with Michael Fernau, ZfBB 2008

Individual evidence

↑ State Handbook of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bund 2002 edition, page 59
^ Sabine Baumann, Michael Fernau: Interview: Michael Fernau . In: Journal of Librarianship and Bibliography . tape 2 , no. 55 , 2008, p. 96-100 ( uni-jena.de ).
↑ Lukas Bormann, screen instead of book? New rules in the German National Library, From the Antiquariat, Journal for Antiquarians and Book Collectors, NF 15, Issue 1, March 2017, pp. 23–25, here p. 24.
↑ "The dream of the digital reading room", interview from Leipzig digital radio detektor.fm with Michael Fernau from January 24, 2017 https://detektor.fm/kultur/digitalisierung-deutsche-nationalbibliothek
↑ Joachim Güntner: German National Library loosens digital pressure. Print remains more popular . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . January 24, 2017, ISSN 0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed January 25, 2017]).
↑ Michael Fernau, Elisabeth Niggemann, Ute Schwens: Library without books? : Digital usage protects paper editions . In: Dialogue with Libraries . tape 29 , no. 1 , 2017, p. 15–17 , urn : nbn: de: 101-2017030936 .

personal data
SURNAME	Fernau, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and library director
DATE OF BIRTH	July 19, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main

[1] State Handbook of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bund 2002 edition, page 59

[2] Sabine Baumann, Michael Fernau: Interview: Michael Fernau . In: Journal of Librarianship and Bibliography . tape 2 , no. 55 , 2008, p. 96-100 ( uni-jena.de ).

[3] Lukas Bormann, screen instead of book? New rules in the German National Library, From the Antiquariat, Journal for Antiquarians and Book Collectors, NF 15, Issue 1, March 2017, pp. 23–25, here p. 24.

[4] "The dream of the digital reading room", interview from Leipzig digital radio detektor.fm with Michael Fernau from January 24, 2017 https://detektor.fm/kultur/digitalisierung-deutsche-nationalbibliothek

[5] Joachim Güntner: German National Library loosens digital pressure. Print remains more popular . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . January 24, 2017, ISSN 0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed January 25, 2017]).

[6] Michael Fernau, Elisabeth Niggemann, Ute Schwens: Library without books? : Digital usage protects paper editions . In: Dialogue with Libraries . tape 29 , no. 1 , 2017, p. 15–17 , urn : nbn: de: 101-2017030936 .