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"With the announcement that a large part of its collection management would be outsourced in 2016, the administration of the Central and Regional Library Berlin (ZLB) triggered a massive public debate. Opponents fear that the inimitable character of the ZLB is endangered by this re-structuring, while the proponents see it as a guarantee for the library‘s future. Volker Heller, a board member and managing director, stated his concerns about the viability of the ZLB upon taking office in 2012. Recognizing a snarl-up on the path of modernization, the director saw no clear concept for the continuing development of the library with such limited personnel resources. »With a view toward customer orientation and efficiency,« two experts in library management, Konrad Umlauf and Cornelia Vonhof, made the explicit recommendation that the library hand-over »the procurement of ready-to-lend standing-orders to the library provider ekz«. Previously this was nearly exclusively in the hands of ZLB‘s subject specialist librarians. But by no means all staff members and library supporters found this a good solution. Public protest was loudly voiced in 2015, the year of its 20th anniversary. A petition was posted online with the title »Destroying Books in Berlin?« in reference to a (false) rumor about especially stringent new rules for discarding books. It was signed by 20,400 supporters.
Library manager Volker Heller affirmed the necessity to do justice to the special character and history of this library. Nonetheless, despite all protesting, the ZLB has put its new policy for collection development into action.
Öffentliche Arbeitssitzung des Arbeitskreises Kritische Bibliothek Kurzreferate und Diskussion zu einem aktuellen bibliothekspolitischen Thema.
Peter Delin und Beate Detlefs sprachen über die Entwicklung der Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin und der Hauptbibliothek in Kopenhagen.
Aufgrund eines Tausches fand die Sitzung nicht am Mo., 14.3.16, 14-15.30 Uhr, statt, sondern am Di. 15.3., 9-11 Uhr, im CCL, Vortragsraum 12.
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