Project Summer Semester 2004

"Library Science - quo vadis?"

Locating - Aspects - Visions

Thus reads the work title of the new summer seminar project 2004.

The aim

In a time of rapidly changing information structures and needs it means to reconsider the libraries and library science's position, to determine it if necessarily again and to develop visions in the view of new tasks as well as pointing out seizable perspectives in form of research and model projects

Background

The institute of Library Science at the Humboldt- University of Berlin is the only one of its kind in the German speaking area. Although even in 2003 positively evaluated from an international team of experts the institute is threatened from the closing due to saving obligations.

The evident increasing use of public and academic/scientific libraries refutes the idea that such institutions as well as the library and information science could be unnecessary because “all could be even found in WorldWibeWeb”.