Association of German Librarians

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Association of German Librarians
(VDB)
legal form registered association
founding 1900
Seat Munich
purpose Professional association
Chair Konstanze Söllner
Members 1700
Website www.vdb-online.org
Chairwoman Konstanze Söllner at the press conference for the 106th Librarian's Day on May 30, 2017 in Frankfurt / Main

The Association of German Librarians e. V. (VDB) represents the professional interests of academic librarians and advocates the promotion of academic books and libraries . It was founded in 1900, re-established in 1948 (Munich) and is the oldest library association in Germany. The association has more than 1700 members who are employed in the scientific library service - or are trained for it - or who are close to the goals of the association and represent them. The office rotates with the respective board of directors; It is currently (2019) in the Erlangen-Nuremberg University Library .

history

In order to promote librarianship , the Association of German Librarians was founded in 1900 after several years of preparation on the first Librarian's Day in Marburg . Members were initially 58 registered, a year later the number had grown to 210. As part of the association's work, the “Yearbook of the German Libraries” was published for the first time in 1902. This is a collection of statistical information on German libraries. At the time of the First World War , the association had up to 600 members who also tried to work together between the libraries.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , the association's influence fell sharply, but there was no drop in membership. National Socialist ideas increasingly found their way into the commissions and meetings of the association, and the majority of the members of the association's executive committee were party members of the NSDAP . The importance of the work of the association continued to decline sharply during World War II . After the end of the war, the association was re-established in 1948.

In the up to 16 commissions, topics related to the technical work were mainly dealt with. In addition, a journal of its own was published regularly, dealing with the topics of librarianship and bibliography. In the 1960s the number of members and the workload increased sharply, so that the organization and the allocation of financial resources had to be reconsidered. One solution, which was rejected at a general meeting in 1969, was to involve the individual libraries more in financial responsibility. After the German Library Association was founded in 1973, the association's objectives were changed. From then on, questions relating to professional training and academic librarianship were in the foreground.

renaming

On May 28, 2015, the general assembly changed the name of the Association of German Librarians to its current name by changing the statutes.

Purpose and activities

Stand of the VDB at the 106th German Librarians' Day 2017 in Frankfurt

The purpose is to strengthen contact among the members, to take care of their professional interests, to work to expand their specialist knowledge and to promote academic librarianship. The VDB deals with all professional matters on an ongoing basis, holds advanced training events and conferences, issues publications, informs members and the public, and works together with other library and information organizations.

The handling of important technical questions of the association is carried out by the three commissions for

  • Professional qualification
  • Technical presentation work
  • Legal issues

and two joint commissions for management and information literacy with the German Library Association .

The association organizes the German Librarians' Day every spring together with the Information Library professional association .

The association is a member of Bibliothek & Information Deutschland (BID), the umbrella organization of all library associations in Germany. Furthermore, he is involved in the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Höherer Dienst (AhD), in which the more than 100,000 member associations of the higher service are represented. Internationally, the VDB is a member of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), the Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche (LIBER) and the European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations (EBLIDA). Independent of these institutional connections, the VDB maintains friendly relations with many foreign professional associations, especially in neighboring countries.

literature

Publications

News about the association is also contained in the Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie (ZfBB) published by Klostermann .

Festschrift and bibliography

Web links

notes

  1. VDB general assembly adopts amendment to the statutes ( German ) VDB. Retrieved July 23, 2015.
  2. in the Lemma information on the previous publications with different names

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