Library science

Library science in the broad sense of systematically arranged epitome of all scientific and technical experience in the field of librarianship.

In the German -speaking world was made between the library administration ( Bibliothekonomie, library technology, and library science in the strict sense), which deals with the establishment and management of a library and the library user ( Bibliothekographie ), which deals with the history and description of the individual libraries of older and more recently employed.

In connection with the development of a so-called knowledge society, the focus of library science moves increasingly into the " virtual space ". ( Keyword: Digital Library ) object of the subject are no longer just the library as a physical place as well as their holdings, as it was primarily in the context of Library Teaching and buyer is the case, but in general information logistics processes ( collecting, processing, making available ) of published information.

History

• Friedrich Adolf Ebert (1791-1834)
• Martin Schrettinger (1772-1851), monastery librarian, later Royal Bavarian court librarian in Munich
• Melvil Dewey (1851-1931): 1876 Dewey Decimal Classification
• SR Ranganathan (1892-1972): 1933 Colon Classification
• Walter Pongratz (1912-1990), Vienna University Library

Research and Education

The task of the subject is the collection and analysis of developments in the field of information distribution and on this basis, the development of methods and theories to information resources (mainly in science). Play an increasing role also statistical methods of bibliometrics and scientometrics ( and in some cases the webometrics ).

Furthermore win in the so-called " information overload " or " information overload " by the omnipresence of large amounts of data, especially in the electronic marketplace, aspects of the evaluation and assurance of quality of information within the field of meaning.

The library science has a high potential due to their interdisciplinary research object.

While the library science Library and Information Science is a recognized university discipline, for example, in the U.S., this could not be properly established in Germany. In addition to training and further education at colleges ( University of Applied Sciences, Cologne University of Applied Sciences Potsdam and at the HTWK ), where the emphasis is on practice, there is the trade only at the Institute of Library and Information Science at the Humboldt University Berlin and the Faculty of Information and communication at the Stuttgart Media University. The theoretical training of many library clerks will also assume the library Academy of Bavaria in Munich.

In Switzerland, the University of Zurich together with the Zurich Central Library to a Master of Advanced Studies ( postgraduate diploma ) in library and information science. There is also a master's degree at the Humboldt University in Berlin. For master's degree was enrolled at the Institute of Library and Information Science at the Humboldt University in Berlin for the first time in the winter semester 2008/ 09.