Open AccessThe Ever-Changing World of Libraries: Six Years of “Treffpunkt Bibliothek” (“Meeting Point Library”)
Author(s) -
Maiken Hagemeister,
Guido Jansen
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
library and information research/library and information research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2752-7336
pISSN - 1756-1086
DOI - 10.29173/lirg630
Subject(s) - publicity , visibility , german , point (geometry) , scale (ratio) , political science , library science , public relations , business , public administration , geography , computer science , law , cartography , geometry , mathematics , archaeology , meteorology
Against the backdrop of massive budget cuts in many cities, towns and villages in the Federal Republic, the German Library Association decided six years ago to initiate a large-scale awareness-raising publicity campaign. The campaign managed to generate tremendous media coverage for libraries on the local, regional and national level, to increase their visibility across the country, and to alert decision-makers and stakeholders on all levels to library-related issues.