109. Deutscher Bibliothekartag in Hannover 2020 (abgesagt)
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This interactive poster will feature different perspectives on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and its role in libraries in supporting their communities from sustainable practices to user engagement approaches. It will include an SDG wheel that conference attendees can spin to -in a fun way- select an SDG and then converse with Garcia-Febo about how their libraries´ programs and services can help develop their community in that area. A chart including all the SDGs and library program / service examples from the US and other countries about each one of the SDGs will help focus these conversations to analyze how their library can help develop their communities. A concise handout with examples will be available for librarians to take with them. Additionally, today ´ s technologies will allow participants to take photos of the chart and the SDG wheel to further discuss with their colleagues once they return to their libraries. These resources provide a local / national / international platform to discuss examples of how libraries not only in the USA and Germany, but around the world, are specifically creating and cultivating new relationships to help communities learn, understand and support sustainable professional development. The poster is an effort to provide library professionals with tools and resources that support sustainable development goals. are specifically creating and cultivating new relationships to help communities learn, understand and support sustainable professional development. The poster is an effort to provide library professionals with tools and resources that support sustainable development goals. are specifically creating and cultivating new relationships to help communities learn, understand and support sustainable professional development. The poster is an effort to provide library professionals with tools and resources that support sustainable development goals.
The purpose of this study was to understand, compare, and contrast professional experiences, attitudes, and beliefs among personnel in academic libraries in the USA and in Germany. Notable findings include differences in: respondents’ professional backgrounds; services offered by, and perceived adequacy and support of, respondents’ libraries; and views of the library profession and its future. The poster presents selected findings as data visualizations. The study results were published in the article: Kramer, S. and Horstmann, W., 2020. Perceptions and beliefs of academic librarians in Germany and the USA: a comparative study. LIBER Quarterly, 29(1), pp.1–18. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/lq.10314
The presentation will argue that the cataloguing code RDA – Resource Description and Access is a tool for finally leaving cataloguing as we use to do in the card catalogue - even though we have had online catalogues for years - and that RDA is a step towards finally embracing the possibilities of online mediation of library resources. The presentation will include a short review of some the changes in the new version of RDA - both pros and cons. Also the presentation will argue that a successful adoption of RDA requires international perspective on the code as well as international cooperation in order to get a mutual understanding of the content, improve the content and make further development of the content in the direction of a truly international code – accepted, used and understood in many diverse libraries. The presentation will refer to EURIG – European RDA Interest Group – as an example of international cooperation.
Provenance research in the book collection of the Jewish museum in Prague on a case of museum´s founder S. H. Lieben Library and a prewar Prague´s Library of Jewish religious community: Beside museology, academic research, education and exhibition work is the Jewish museum in Prague devoted also to a provenance research of its collections. The main impulse for this research were not only specifics of museum´s historical circumstances, mainly the WWII years and the years following, but also an international focus on the research for origins of the collections in museums in last few years. The JMP began the provenance research of the books in 2001, when the project Identification of the original owners of the books started as well as the creating of the identified owners´ database. This research was necessary to satisfactorily meet the request of different applicants who were searching for looted property of institutions or individuals. This database now helps to handle the requests not only of researchers but also of the claims applied by the heirs of original owners. The JMP has established the restitution policy as well as terms for returning of the books to original owners or their heirs. On example of the Museum´s founder S. H. Lieben books I would like to introduce the way of owner´s identification, implementation of archive research and specifics of Museum´s history. I will present problems of identifying the last owner of the confiscated book, as well as the process of decision which books could be given back to the applicants. I would like to introduce also the opposite way of our research and that is the searching and getting the looted books from prewar Prague´s community Library which is now deposited in JMP. This Library was confiscated by the Nazis and after the WWII not whole Library returned. Mostly the rarest books disappeared.
In 2016 the Leiden University Libraries started working on a new policy for innovation within the library. The goal was to make innovation a more important pillar within the organisation to which all employees could contribute. This shift was deemed necessary because, up until then, innovation had primarily been a top-down process. A culture change was necessary to address this situation. Innovation needed to be on everyone’s radar, in a way that would inspire everyone to take part in it and for the organisation to more fully benefit from employees’ insights and talents. This presentation will discuss the results of this new policy up until now. A key ‘instrument’ has been the establishment of a dedicated Innovation Team in 2018. Consisting of four employees from different departments (but not management), the aim of this team is to make (already ongoing) innovation visible within the organisation and to encourage employees to actively take part in innovation. The team does so by providing a platform to submit ideas, to follow up on these ideas, evaluate them and, if possible, to either embed them within existing organisational structures or to create room for experimentation. Two key tasks/considerations will be highlighted. First, the development of a specific workflow and the creation of a format for recommendations to the management (evaluating the viability, costs and impact) has been pivotal in increasing the likelihood of an idea being accepted executed. The second consideration pertains to communication. An innovative culture demands that all serious ideas receive substantiated feedback and consideration, even if dismissed. All of this then encourages employees to submit more innovative ideas, because they can observe that all ideas are taken seriously by the organisation at large.
The purpose of this study was to understand, compare, and contrast professional experiences, attitudes, and beliefs among personnel in academic libraries in the USA and in Germany. Notable findings include differences in: respondents’ professional backgrounds; services offered by, and perceived adequacy and support of, respondents’ libraries; and views of the library profession and its future. Future studies could extend these comparisons to librarians in other countries, beyond Germany and the USA.