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Rezensionen zu: Ulrich van der Heyden/Joachim Zeller (Hrsg.) "…Macht und Anteil an der Weltherrschaft" Berlin und der deutsche Kolonialismus, Unrast Verlag, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-024-2 ; 284 Seiten, 28 Euro. Dirk van Laak : Über alles in der Welt. Deutscher Imperialismus im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert ; Verlag C. H. Beck, München 2005, ISBN 3-406-52824-4, 229 Seiten, 14,90 Euro. Winfried Speitkamp : Deutsche Kolonialgeschichte Reclam Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-15-017047-8, 208 Seiten, 6 Euro.
Background and Purpose of this Meeting With an opening reception sponsored by Thomson Scientific on the evening of Thursday, October 5, the University Library of Frankfurt and the German-North American Resources Partnership (GNARP) and will be hosting an important two-day conference this Autumn in Frankfurt, Germany: »The World According to GNARP: Prospects for Transatlantic Library Partnership in the Digital Age« Sessions at this meeting will explore the wealth of library resources - archival, print, and digital - available to students and researchers (in Germany and the United States) in five selected subject areas: North American Studies, German Studies, Judaica, Africana, and South Asia/India, highlighting both existing avenues (and obstacles) for transatlantic resource sharing along with future prospects. In addition, several other important topics will be highlighted through individual presentations and panel discussions: the future of German as a language of the sciences; existing and planned electronic journal archives in Germany and the U.S.; print and digital repositories; and a special panel on »comparative cataloging cultures« on both sides of the Atlantic. The »World According to GNARP« conference will be taking place simultaneously with the Frankfurt Book Fair, the largest book-related event in the world, attracting annually 285,000 visitors (2005), thus giving participants who arrive early the chance to combine attendance at both the Book Fair and Conference. A cultural event and dinner in Frankfurt are planned for Friday 6th October.
Die gegenwärtigen medientechnischen Entwicklungen, der schrankenlose weltweite Daten- und Kommunikationsfluss, für den das Internet steht, fordern traditionelle Informationsversorgungseinrichtungen heraus und verlangen nach neuen Denkweisen und Strategien. Als viel versprechendes Konzept gelten seit Ende der 1990er Jahre so genannte Virtuelle Fachbibliotheken (ViFa), die in der Regel von einem Konsortium aus Sondersammelgebiets- Bibliotheken, Fachgesellschaften und anderen einschlägig spezialisierten Institutionen deutschlandweit realisiert werden. Über einen zentralen WWW-Einstiegspunkt versammeln sie ausgewählte konventionelle und elektronische Medien zu einem Fachgebiet, bereiten diese systematisch auf und bieten diese einer ausgewiesenen Scientific Community über differenzierte Zugriffsmöglichkeiten an. Der Beitrag zeichnet die Entwicklung des ViFa-Konzepts kursorisch nach und stellt - in Auswahl - problematische Aspekte vor, die sich im Laufe der Realisierung ergaben und die noch immer aktuell sind.
The LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) Alliance is an international community of about 100 libraries and partners like OCLC. For almost a decade the LOCKSS open source model has been tested for its robustness against attack and for its ability to migrate formats. LOCKSS »boxes« at 150 institutions in more than 20 countries comprise a peer-to-peer system that automatically cross-checks content to ensure the accuracy and completeness of all member archives. Eighty publishers, including large publishers like Oxford University Press, are now participating in LOCKSS or actively preparing to add their journals to the program.
The mission of the Harvard Judaica Collection is to comprehensively document Jewish history and civilization in all places and periods. To accomplish its mission, the Judaica Collection collects materials in all languages and in all formats—books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, sound recordings, and videos, posters, broadsides, and photographs. A particular focus is the Library’s Documenting Israel program, which covers all aspects of Israeli life and culture in great depth; Harvard has the largest collection of Israeli publications and Israel-related materials outside the State of Israel. The Harvard Judaica Collection also attempts to have comprehensive coverage of the publications of Jewish communities throughout the globe, including a significant collection of publications from countries across Europe. Collecting these materials requires cooperation with a wide array of institutions and individuals around the world.
The enhancing importance of digital documents has effected activities on how to deal with them. One line came from the more general field of "scientific publishing", which was handled in detail by DINI (Deutsche Initiative für Netzwerkinformation). But for this initiative long- time archiving was only one field of many and was not their primary focus. DINI first of all concentrated on the elaboration of effective and standardized methods and tools for publishing and related services on the basis of open access policy via the use of institutional repositories. The second line of projects came from the more general view of maintaining cultural heritage also in a digital world. Especially under the patronage of the Ministry of Education and Research important projects were being financed. Strategic solutions including archives, libraries, and museums are discussed and elaborated within NESTOR, where more technical solutions based on the term of practicability are developed within KOPAL. KOPAL brought together the industry (IBM) with a public- funded technical center (GWDG) and two libraries (DNB and SUB Göttingen). Within this project a general software implementation, which took into consideration all necessary international standards, could be finished last month and has been now for about two weeks. Based on early results within NESTOR it seemed important too, to strengthen all activities by giving them a legal basis. Therefore when the law changed concerning the German National Library from June 22nd this year (DNBG), the library was authorized with all the necessary instruments to collect digital documents in "non-physical" form as well. With this law at the moment Germany is in the rare position of being one of the few countries where the collection of network publications is part of the whole legal deposit strategy.
To stimulate further discussion, I would like to briefly tackle the following questions: * How can one become informed about what is going on in German Studies in the US? * What kinds of American guides to German resources are available? * What kinds of German Studies resources are being produced in the US? * What do we know about how scholars are using (or not) these guides and resources?