Open AccessLibrary planning in Germany
Author(s) -
Friedrich Geißelmann
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
liber quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.392
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1435-5205
pISSN - 2213-056X
DOI - 10.18352/lq.7732
Subject(s) - german , position (finance) , politics , ambivalence , political science , business , library science , computer science , finance , history , law , archaeology , psychology , social psychology
The position and the efficiency of German libraries are rather ambivalent. On the one hand the infrastructure is quite well developed: 2000 public library systems with full time personnel, 275 million books issued, 75 million Euro for acquisitions; 280 scientific general libraries, 60 million books issued, 1300 million Euro for acquisitions. Nevertheless there are a lot of problems, which arise from the administrative structure and the political position of libraries.