Michael Mönnich

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Michael Mönnich (2015)

Michael Wilhelm Mönnich (born March 6, 1959 in Tübingen ) is a German librarian , pharmacist and since 2010 head of the user services department as well as deputy director of the library of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ( KIT library ).

Career

Michael Wilhelm Mönnich was born on March 6, 1959 in Tübingen as the son of the general practitioner Dr. med. Walter Mönnich and the pharmacist Lore Mönnich, b. Ebensperger, born. After attending primary and secondary school in Eningen unter Achalm from 1966 to 1969 and the Friedrich-List-Gymnasium in Reutlingen from 1969 to 1978, he began studying chemistry at the University of Zurich that same year . In 1980 he moved to the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen , where he studied pharmacy from 1980 to 1984 and finally received his license as a pharmacist in 1985 after the practical year in the Burckhardt'sche pharmacy in Eningen under Achalm . At the same time, Mönnich began studying the history of pharmacy , historical auxiliary sciences and Latin philology of the Middle Ages at the Philipps University of Marburg in 1984, which he successfully completed in 1986. From then on he worked on his dissertation on "Medicine and Pharmacy in the works of Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639)", led by Wolf-Dieter Mueller Jahncke and in 1989 for Dr. rer. nat. PhD from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . During this period he also worked part-time in the Burckhardt pharmacy.

He then did a legal clerkship for the higher library service at the University Library Karlsruhe and the FHBD Cologne until 1991 , so that in the same year he took a position as a library assessor at the University Library Karlsruhe (now the KIT library), in 1993 as a library councilor , in 1995 as a senior library councilor and in 2001 as a library director could compete.

Together with Axel Helmstädter , he organized the DGGP Biennale in Karlsruhe in 2002 . Since 2010 he has been head of the user services department and deputy director of the KIT library as well as specialist librarian for chemistry and pharmacy. From 2010 to 2011 he headed the BIT online response magazine . In 2018 Mönnich was awarded the Johannes Valentin Medal in bronze by the DGGP.

Library activity

Mönnich is currently deputy library director of the KIT library and responsible for the organizational area of ​​user services. During his many years of activity at the Karlsruhe University Library, he oversaw numerous IT projects, such as the development of the OLIX online catalog, the Karlsruhe cataloging system KARIN and the Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog (KVK). He was also involved in setting up modern and pioneering services, for example the recommender service Bibtip, the electronic university bibliography and the establishment of a university publishing house (now KIT ​​Scientific Publishing), the electronic repository EVA (now KITOpen) and the digitization of old library holdings. In the area of ​​use, an electronic guide for free learning and workplaces (Seatfinder) was developed under his leadership and the Karlsruhe learning room day was launched. At the library he has organized various exhibitions on the history of science, for example "Encyclopedias. Storytelling. Knowledge." (2016), "175 Years of the KIT Library" (2015), "Karl Weltzien - Founder of Karlsruhe Chemistry" (2013) or "150 Years of the Karlsruhe Chemist Congress" (2010).

Memberships and offices

  • 1993: Head of the editorial department of the journal Pharmaziehistorische Bibliographie and support of the website
  • 1997: Chairman of the Baden regional group of the German Society for the History of Pharmacy (DGGP)
  • 1998: Internet representative of the DGGP, supervision of the Internet presence and navigator of the history of pharmacy, collection of links on the history of pharmacy
  • 2001: DGGP library officer
  • 2001: Member of the working group of the German Central Pharmaceutical Library in Stuttgart
  • 2004: Lecturer in the history of pharmacy at the University of Tübingen
  • 2008: Lecturer for the history of chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe / Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
  • 2010: Honorary Professor at the University of Tübingen
  • 2010: Member of the editorial board of the journal Geschichte der Pharmazie
  • 2016: Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Central Pharmaceutical Library
  • 2017: Member of the building commission of the German Library Association

Publications

Mönnich's publications deal with topics from the history of pharmacy and chemistry . The focus is on the history of chemistry and alchemy, chemistry in Karlsruhe and Tübingen, the Haber-Bosch procedure , the history of pharmacognostic collections and alternative healing methods , libraries and bibliographies on the history of pharmacy and chemistry as well as climate change and epidemics .

Selection of publications

  • MW Mönnich, T. Arand, P. Bohm: The pharmaceutical newspaper in the First World War. In: Pharmaceutical newspaper. (Eschborn). Volume 163, No. 45, 2018, pp. 52-58.
  • MW Mönnich: Fritz Haber (1868–1934) - chemist, Nobel Prize winner, nationalist and victim of National Socialism. In: Ch. Friedrich (Ed.): The ammonia synthesis - "Bread from Air". Crossing boundaries in pharmacy: the lectures at the Pharmaceutical History Biennale in Meißen from April 22 to 24, 2016. Wiss. Verlags-Ges., Stuttgart 2017, pp. 89–109.
  • F. Hoebel, MW Mönnich: Learning space management - a task for libraries. In: BIT online. Volume 18, No. 1, 2015, pp. 15-21.
  • MW Mönnich: Thriving for Unity in Chemistry. The First International Gathering of Chemists. In: Chemistry international. Volume 32, No. 6, 2010, pp. 10-15.
  • MW Mönnich: Change, upheaval and revolutions - the influences of information technology on the library world 1997 to 2007. In: BIT online. Volume 11, No. 2, 2008, pp. 139-144.
  • MW Mönnich: The Voynich manuscript from a pharmaceutical historical point of view. In: History of Pharmacy. Volume 60, No. 1/2, 2008, pp. 9-14.
  • MW Mönnich, M. Spiering: Adding Value to the Library Catalog by Implementing a Recommendation System. In: D-Lib Magazine. Volume 14, No. 5/6, 2008. doi: 10.1045 / may2008-monnich
  • MW Mönnich: Electronic publishing of university publications: formats and databases. In: B. Tröger (Ed.): Science online. Electronic publishing in libraries and universities. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2000, pp. 187-213.
  • MW Mönnich: Criteria for the evaluation and selection of Internet search engines . In: R. Schmidt (Hrsg.): Breaking into knowledge management: 21st DGI online conference, Frankfurt am Main, May 18-20, 1999. Dt. Ges. For Information Science u. Informationspraxis, Frankfurt am Main 1999, pp. 141–152.
  • E. Gottswinter, MW Mönnich: Building bridges between IT systems. Introduction to the SR norms. In: ABI technology. Volume 13, No. 4, 1993, pp. 277-288.
  • MW Mönnich, U. Schwersky: Basics and technology of PCs. Berlin 1992.
  • MW Mönnich: PC workstations for users in academic libraries. In: ABI technology. No. 11, 1991, pp. 267-276.
  • MW Mönnich: Tommaso Campanella. His contribution to medicine and pharmacy in the Renaissance. Knowledge Verlags-Ges., Stuttgart 1990.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kvk.bibliothek.kit.edu
  2. ↑ www.bibtip.com/de
  3. ↑ www.bibliothek.kit.edu/cms/kitopen.php
  4. ↑ www.seatfinder.de
  5. ↑ www.karlsruher-lernraumtag.de
  6. ↑ completed exhibitions
  7. ↑ services.bibliothek.kit.edu
  8. ↑ www.dggp.de
  9. ↑ www.pharmaziegeschichte.de
  10. ^ Building Commission of the German Library Association

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personal data
SURNAME Mönnich, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mönnich, Michael Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian, pharmacist and deputy director of the library of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen