Bookend
The term bookend means a device with the books are fixed in a bookcase to their position, so they can not fall over. The fall of a book can cause similar to the domino effect, neighboring books and others on the shelf objects can cause damage to or even fall, in this way. Therefore, it is useful to fix at least the outer books in a group of books.
Categories
Bookends fix books on particular three different ways:
Bookends in library science
In today's German library system, there are two common fundamental systems of Bookends - on the one integrated into the underside of the floors of books compartments hanging bookends; on the other equipped with a sliding edge angle bookends. The "Principles for equipping public libraries " see per shelf and per systematics point a bookend or per shelf before 1.5 bookends.
Known manufacturers
One of the largest German manufacturer of bookends is the Jakob Maul GmbH.