Systematics for libraries

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The systematics for libraries (SfB) is a hierarchical arrangement system for the holdings in public and academic libraries .

The SfB jointly by the Bremen Public Library , the Library Center Schleswig-Holstein , the city library Frankfurt and the City Library Hannover updated and developed. The editorial office is at the Hanover City Library. The aim is to be able to work permanently with an up-to-date system that is closely related to practice and is based on the division of labor.

Structure and content

The SfB currently comprises 30 hierarchically ordered subject areas, the main groups of which are mnemonic . On the first level, they are initially identified by letters, either by the initial letters of their name or by their abbreviation ( BWL - Betriebswirtschaftslehre ). The second level of the mixed notation consists of one to four-digit numbers (1 - 9999, highest actually assigned: 2845 for SoP / social policy), which are arranged enumeratively and serve to identify the subgroups. Some subgroups are also broken down with commanotations (e.g. Bio 868 - reptiles , Bio 868.1 - turtles ). Furthermore, there are additional keys for the breakdown of biographical literature and for the breakdown of art in individual locations as well as a general key for briefly naming states and German states in subject groups that require a geographical breakdown in individual subject areas.

distribution

The SfB is mainly used by libraries in Bremen , Lower Saxony , Schleswig-Holstein and in the areas of the German-speaking minorities in Denmark around Aabenraa . However, there are also a number of libraries in North Rhine-Westphalia and in southern Germany that use the SfB. In addition, the public libraries of the State of Berlin also work with the SfB.

cooperation

The SfB is updated and maintained in cooperation. This takes place on several levels: The control and coordination of the continuous systematic maintenance is carried out by a steering committee made up of the management and one lecturer from each of the four libraries. Two ekz employees take part in the meetings in an advisory capacity. An editorial team, consisting of the editors, who are also represented on the steering committee, and an employee of ekz, take on other higher-level and standardizing functions. For each subject there is a lead lecturer who coordinates the respective changes in this subject with colleagues from the other institutions.

history

The Hanover City Libraries (today Hanover City Library ) developed a new system from 1956 under the then director Rolf Kluth . As a basis they chose the system of the America Memorial Library (AGB), which had only been drafted a few years earlier (1951–1954). It was based on the type of the American public library and was expressly planned for use in a single library (cf.). The revised version, the system of the city libraries Hanover (SSH) is the direct predecessor of the SfB.

After the SSH took over another large library with the Lübeck City Library in addition to a number of smaller institutions, the delivery was switched to a loose-leaf collection in order to make it easier to keep it up to date.

In 1976, the North German library directors (was at a conference Bremen Public Library , Biichereizentrale Schleswig-Holstein , City libraries Hannover) decision has been taken to implement the SSH on every upcoming Umsystematisierung in northern Germany. At the same time, the classification was renamed SfB. The responsibility for the individual subjects was divided between the individual libraries. As the network headquarters, the Hanover city libraries took over the editing with a coordination office.

1978–1987 the SfB appeared in individual deliveries until 1997 when a complete edition was published by KG Saur Verlag . As of 1998, the ekz systematizes all ID titles in addition to the KAB , ASB and SSD now also according to the SfB.

In 2000 the Frankfurt am Main city library joined the cooperation.

SfB today

Since 2009 the SfB has been freely available for all non-commercial uses on the Internet. Updates take place every year. Example systematics for a city, a city-state and a federal state as well as for beautiful literature and children's and young adult literature complete the offer.

literature

  • Holger Nohr: Systematic indexing in German public libraries . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1996, ISBN 3-447-03787-3 .
  • City libraries Hanover: Systematics for libraries: SfB . Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11358-7 .

See also

supporting documents

  1. ↑ H.-J. Lorenzen: The SfB. on: SfB-Online , January 23, 2009.
  2. ^ Holger Nohr: Systematic indexing in German public libraries . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1996, ISBN 3-447-03787-3 , pp. 37 .

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