Werner Mevissen

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Werner Mevissen (born April 16, 1911 in Aachen , † January 4, 1978 in Bremen ) was a German library director.

Life

Mevissen was the son of the timber merchant Leo Mevissen and grew up in Cologne. At the request of his father, he first completed an apprenticeship as a timber merchant, but left his parents' company at the age of 20 and followed his inclination to the book industry. First he made up his Abitur (1934), did a traineeship in Berlin and then attended the bookselling school in Leipzig to become a publishing clerk. In 1943 he married the future mayor of Bremen Annemarie Schmidt (SPD), who worked as a bookseller in Leipzig. The marriage has two children.

Work as library director in Bremen

In 1945 after the end of the war he took over the management of the public libraries of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . In 1947, the separation was carried out of the public library of the State Library Bremen and the continuation as an independent municipal public library since 1969 at the instigation of the Bremen Public Library operates. Mevissen implemented his ideas for the public library in Bremen for all social groups and developed the public libraries through a concept of decentralization. His motto: "A book for everyone in Bremen". District, district and school libraries emerged and a. in Gröpelingen , Neustadt , Huchting , Osterholz and on Vorkampsweg as well as at the correctional facilities. In 1974 he also set up a graphic library . On the occasion of his retirement he was awarded the Senate Medal for Art and Science of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen on September 10, 1975 in view of his services . On the occasion of his 100th birthday on April 15, 2011, the headline of the Weser Kurier was : Revolutionary of the library system - man with visions: For the 100th birthday of the former city library director Werner Mevissen .

National and international work as a librarian

Mevissen was a proven specialist in library construction, who took several study trips internationally and asked the German library world "the traditional knowledge (...) about the construction of libraries that is reflected in their manuals, such as the three-volume" Handbuch der Bibliothekswissenschaft " to ignore and to focus on the user and his needs. ”His book“ Büchereibau | Public Library Building ”, published in 1958, was the first international standard work on the subject and was published in two languages ​​and was reprinted in 1974 as a special edition. He was also a lecturer for library construction at the University of Applied Sciences for Libraries in Hamburg .

He advocated the abolition of loan fees: “It seems to me that it is pointless to continue discussing the level of fees among colleagues. For us today it can only be a matter of demanding free lending everywhere. "

Mevissen was a co-founder and member of the supervisory board of the purchasing center for libraries in Reutlingen, member of the board of the German Library Association and the library professional association Library and Information Germany ; Editor of the journal Buch und Bibliothek and member of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).

Books, articles, articles

  • American Open-Shelves - Deutsche Freihand , in: Bücherei und Bildung, 2 | 1949/1950, pp. 504-513
  • Library legislation in England and the USA , in: Bücherei und Bildung, 2 | 1950, pp. 845–848.
  • New ways of library work. - Results of a study trip through German libraries , in: BuB 3 | 1951, pp. 583–591.
  • Library construction | Public Library Building , Essen: Verlag Ernst Heyer 1958 (German-English)
  • The Dortmund “House of Libraries” , in: Bücherei und Bildung, 3 | 1962, pp. 117–125
  • Bremen in the book. A bibliography for the anniversary year 1965 of the 1000th anniversary of the granting of market rights to Bremen . Sturm Druck, Bremen 1965.
  • Regional planning: Forms of library cooperation using three examples: Bavaria, Saarland, Bremen , presentations on the occasion of the 1966 annual conference of the German Library Association in Berlin on March 2, 1966 / by Franz Xaver Böhm, Wilhelm Dillinger and Werner Mevissen, Conference: Annual Conference of the German Library Association, ( Berlin) 1966
  • Tasks, organization and methods , In: Bücherei und Bildung, 20 | 1968, p. 201
  • Arthur Heidenhain , in: Bremische Biografie 1912–1962, Bremen, Hauschild 1969, p. 216f.
  • Library program and library construction in Bremen since 1945 , in: Between library and library: the public libraries of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen 1969; Situation and Problems, Bremen 1969, pp. 71–83.
  • Considerations on the organizational structure of a city library as the city's library , in: public library today, Berlin 1971, p. 99 ff.
  • Hans Sonn, Werner Mevissen u. a., The activity of the librarian in children's and youth libraries and school libraries / “Children's and youth libraries” working group met in Bremen , in: Buch und Bibliothek, 23 | 1971, pp. 280–289.
  • Bremen library publications , ed. by Rolf Kluth u. Werner Mevissen. Red .: Klaus Barckow u. Alfred Gabriel, Bremen: Univ. Bibl., City Library, 1971
  • Library construction from the beginning until 1945 . Reprint from the Handbuch des Büchereiwesens, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz 1974, ISBN 3-447-01592-6
  • Cooperative library work in the interdependent area , in: Library cooperation: Aspects and possibilities; Lectures given at the 1973 Library Congress from June 12 to 16 in Hamburg; [at the same time 63rd German Librarians' Day 1973], Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann 1974, pp. 101-109
  • His life's work - The purchasing center for public libraries - Herbert Eisentraut is retiring , Paper resented at the IFLA General Council Meeting, Oslo, August 1975, published as text in: Buch und Bibliothek, 28 | 1976, pp. 60–62

literature

  • Revolutionary of the library system - man with vision: For the former city library director Werner Mevissen on his 100th birthday , in: Weser-Kurier from April 15, 2011
  • Ulrich Naumann: Library building and equipment, section 3: Historical development of library building , p. 41, http://userpage.zedat.fu-berlin.de/unaumann/Bibliotheksbaugeschichte_2008.pdf
  • Renate Meyer-Braun: Mrs. Mayor Annemarie Mevissen. A biography . Bremen, Hauschild 2011, p. 38.
  • Karl Marten Barfuß, Hartmut Müller, Daniel Tilgner (eds.): History of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen from 1945 to 2005. Volume 1: 1945–1969 . Edition Temmen, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86108-575-1 .
  • Christoph Köster: The Whole World of Media: A Century City Library Bremen , Bremen, Edition Temmen 2002.
  • Hans Joachim Kuhlmann: Librarians, Libraries, ekz: the relationships between the ekz and the associations of the public librarianship up to the agreement on the Lektoratskooperation , Reutlingen, ekz 1993, ISBN 978-3-88347-151-8 .
  • Hans Joachim Kuhlmann, Association of Librarians at Public Libraries: The Path to Critical Citizens: Forty Years of the Association of Librarians at Public Libraries (Association of German People's Librarians), 1949 to 1989 , Bock + Herchen 1989.
  • Alexandra Habermann et al: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1980 , Frankfurt a. M .: Klostermann 1985, ISBN 3-465-01664-5 , p. 214f.
  • Friedrich Andrae: Laudation for Werner Mevissen: held on the occasion of the award of the medal for art and science of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen , in: Buch und Bibliothek, 28 | 1976, pp. 63–67.
  • Library '76: Review and Outlook; A gift to Werner Mevissen on his 65th birthday on April 16, 1976 , Bremen: Stadtbibliothek Bremen 1976.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see: Renate Meyer-Braun, Ms. Mayor Annemarie Mevissen: A biography. Bremen, Hauschild 2011, p. 38
  2. ↑ https://www.aufbaugemeinschaft-bremen.de/wp-content/uploads/der-aufbau-1977-12.pdf , p. 142
  3. ↑ Prof. Dr. Ulrich Naumann Documents for distance learning at the Institute for Library and Information Science at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Module 8.1: Library construction, equipment, technology, ergonomics, http://userpage.zedat.fu-berlin.de/unaumann/Modul -8-1-1u2_19M.pdf , 2014, p. 6
  4. ↑ Library construction | Public Library Building , Essen: Verlag Ernst Heyer 1958 (German-English)
  5. ↑ Library construction from the beginnings to 1945, special edition, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz 1974, ISBN 3-447-01592-6
  6. ↑ see: Book and Library, 3 | 1951, p. 586
  7. ↑ http://www.ib.hu-berlin.de/~kumlau/handreichungen/h224/h224.pdf , p. 5
  8. ^ S. Randall, Thompson, A .: Actes du Conseil Général / Proceedings of the General Council, Volume 32, Springer 2013, p. 11
  9. ↑ http://brema.suub.uni-bremen.de/content/pageview/19311
personal data
SURNAME Mevissen, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German library director
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 1978
Place of death Bremen