Rafael Ball

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Rafael Ball (* 1964 ) is a German librarian .

Rafael Ball studied biology, Slavic studies and philosophy at the Universities of Mainz, Warsaw and Smolensk. In 1994 he was at the Institute of Botany at the University of Mainz for Dr. rer. nat. PhD. From 1994 to 1996 he attended the library school in Frankfurt am Main and completed his library traineeship at the Freiburg University Library . From 1996 to 1998 he was head of user services in the central library at Forschungszentrum Jülich , of which he was head from 1998. From 2008 to 2015 he was director of the University Library in Regensburg . He has been head of the library at ETH Zurich since March 1, 2015 .

He is known for his ideas on the library of the future , science communication and the role of the printed book today.

He is editor-in-chief of BITonline magazine .

Publications (selection)

  • The development of the ideas of the photosynthetic unit and the photosystems in the field of tension between structure and function. Mainz 1994 (dissertation)
  • with Aloysius Wild: Camill Montfort and his work in the field of tension between ecology and physiology. Frankfurt am Main: Palmengarten, 1994 (in: Palmarum Hortus Frankfortensis 4 )
  • Bibliometric analyzes - data, facts and methods, Jülich: Forschungszentrum, Zentralbibliothek, 2005
  • with Maja Jokić: Quality and quantity of scientific publications: bibliometric aspects of science communication. Jülich: Research Center, Central Library, 2006
  • What really remains of libraries. Wiesbaden: Dinges & Frick, 2013
  • Bibliometrics. Berlin: De Gruyter Saur, 2014
  • The non-stop society. Stuttgart: Schattauer, 2014
  • Bibliometrics in the age of open and big data. Wiesbaden: Dinges & Frick, 2015
  • Rafael Ball (editor), Stefan Wiederkehr (editor): Networked knowledge. On-line. The library as a management task: Festschrift for Wolfram Neubauer on his 65th birthday . Berlin: De Gruyter Saur, 2015. ISBN 3110441543 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Furger: Away with the books! The Internet makes libraries superfluous, says the head of the ETH library in an interview. Either they clear out their books and reinvent themselves - or they will disappear . In: NZZ on Sunday , February 7, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Ball, Rafael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian
DATE OF BIRTH 1964