Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:13:58 +0530
From: "Seth, Renu"
Dear Colleagues,
Please find enclosed a newsletter from "Max Mueller Bhavan Regional
Information Centre" for LIS professionals. This newsletter is designed to
keep you informed about the LIS scenario in Germany. In case you would
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Renu Seth
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Newsletter for Librarians & Information Professionals, from the RIC
August 2004
Dear Friends!
We bring to you the first issue of our newsletter on Information Services,
which aims to provide you with the latest in the field of Media &
Information in Germany.
In the first section of this newsletter, we invite you to browse through
DigiBib - an online library. The second section informs you about the
latest happenings in the German Library & Information Science sector.
In each issue, Literary Projects will introduce you to a web project
organized by the Goethe Institute. In this edition we introduce you to
www.litrix.de - a portal for promoting contemporary German literature.
Meet Cornelia Funke, the 'German J.K. Rowling', and get to know about her
fascinating creations in our Author in Focus section.
Our separate Corner for Bibliophiles puts you into the current German
literary picture and also gives you a foretaste of some of the finest
literary pieces being published there today.
We would also like to draw your attention to the fact that we have
recently started offering our readers the services of the internationally
recognized databank Lexis Nexis. This databank is well known as a rich
source of articles, which are gathered from newspapers, magazines and
journals from all over the world. We will be happy to receive your queries
on any topic related to Germany - be it art, culture, literature or
science. Your queries will then be processed by our team of professionals
and the results will be made available to you.
We hope that this newsletter will prove to be interesting and insightful
for you. Please do write to us with your valuable suggestions & feedback
at the following e-mail address:
mailto:online.editor.mmb@delhi.goethe.org
Best wishes from The MMB RIC team
- DigiBib-The online library from Nordrhein-Westfalen
Finding answers with Digibib DigiBib offers you the opportunity to search
through different sources of information under one unified interface.
Search simultaneously through the catalogues of international libraries as
well as through bibliographic databases, from all over the world. DigiBib
offers its users:- selected links from the WWW- WWW-Metasearchmachine and
much more... http://www4.digibib.netAlthough DigiBib offers information
in English language, the search interface is German. Hence, you may face
difficulties in accessing it. You are welcome to contact us in case you
need help in this regard.
- In the News
The Dresden medien@age - a Library for the 21st Century For a long time
the library of the twentieth century may have been just "a collection of
books", but other media forms are becoming increasingly important this
century. The medien@age library in Dresden has courageously embraced this
change - and has scored points with its target audience along the way.
http://www.goethe.de/kug/mui/bib/thm/en139876.htm
Information Services in Germany Unlike in the Anglo-American countries,
information services in libraries in Germany at the beginning of the 20th
century initially referred mainly to literary information and less to
factual information.For two decades now ever more people in Germany have
been asking questions about facts to the information sectors of libraries.
Today, highly specialised information teams in the field of general
information who have many databases for literature and factual information
at their disposal can increasingly be found in the academic and large
public libraries. http://www.goethe.de/kug/mui/ask/ein/en21811.htm
vascoda - the Internet Portal for Scientific Information Being able to
access the information lying dormant on the shelves of German libraries
with a click of the mouse and download it onto your computer with another
click - this is a vision that has just moved one step closer to becoming
reality. Since August 2003 the interdisciplinary Internet portal vascoda
has been providing access to 37 German libraries, research institutes and
information providers. http://www.goethe.de/kug/mui/bib/thm/en69733.htm
- Literary Projects
Litrix.de - German Literature Online Since January 2004, excerpts from
outstanding new publications, specimen translations and the latest
information on the German book market are available from the online
magazine Litrix.de. The magazine is aimed at an international audience and
is a major part of a project promoting contemporary German literature
abroad. Project partners are the Federal Cultural Foundation, the
Goethe-Institut and the Frankfurt Book Fair. www.litrix.de
- Author in Focus
Portrait of Cornelia Funke Cornelia Funke is currently the most successful
German author of books for young people. She was born in 1958 and has sold
a million copies of her books for young people and children. She has been
compared internationally with JK Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter
series. In September 2003 her book "Tintenherz" was released.
http://www.goethe.de/in/d/film/e/kubus-e-59-1-f.html
- Bibliophile's Corner
Lexikon der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur - Revised Germany, the
"land of poets and thinkers", has brought forth a great number of writers
since time immemorial. So it isn't easy keeping track, especially of the
latest names. A newly revised encyclopaedia has arrived to help out.
http://www.goethe.de/kug/kue/lit/thm/en96421.htmEncyclopaedia only in
German language.
Where the Good Guys Still Win German detective stories about FBI agent
Jerry Cotton have been an international hit for 50 years. "His leap was
an act of desperation, the insane reaction of a cornered killer who has
nothing left to lose. He dove smack into the line of fire of my revolver.
I had released the safety: all I had to do was pull the trigger. But I
chose not to: I have a deep-seated aversion to shooting an unarmed man."
http://www.goethe.de/kug/mui/buv/thm/en91801.htm
"The Wild East" - Young East German authors look back By contrast with the
young West Germans who accommodated themselves with Helmut Kohl perfectly
well for eight years after the Berlin Wall came down and watched, relaxed
and uninterested, as the so-called "Berlin Republic" decayed into "Berlin
provinciality", the East Germans of the same age, who have been largely
speechless until now, have suddenly appeared from nowhere and are now
publishing one book after another.
http://www.goethe.de/kug/kue/lit/thm/en72032.htm
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