The Specialized Information Programm on Book Studies, Library and Information Science
.Tasks and Objectives
The Specialized Information Programm is aimed at researchers in book studies, library, and information science (BBI subjects). Its goal is to provide the scholarly community with specialized literature for their subjects via a single database. There are three objectives:
- Information: The research portal lists several million subject-related monographs, articles and open access publications. If you define a home library in your account, you can check directly in the portal of the FID BBI whether a requested text is available there.
- Acquisition: We buy specialized literature to make it available to you throughout Germany. Via the FID BBI, researchers can access books, journal articles and databases or, if desired, have a public domain work digitized through our Digitization-on-Demand service.
- Support and exchange: We provide information with regard to subject-specific research questions and aim to promote interdisciplinary networking between representatives of book studies st, library and information science.
Acquisition Profile
The FID BBI's services and acquisitions support research on the production, reproduction, distribution, exploitation, preservation and reception of information. The focus lies on current research interests in book studies, library and information science, with minor interdisciplinary connections to computer science, the digital humanities, auxiliary sciences of history, archival studies and restoration sciences.
In consultation with the scientific community and our scientific advisory board, the acquisition profile is constantly adjusted and adapted to current research needs.
Organisation
The FID BBI has been in existence since 2017, in its second funding phase it is run by the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel (HAB), Leipzig University Library (UBL), and the Institute for Library and Information Science at Humboldt University in Berlin (IBI). The FID is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
The FID BBI is also part of the finc community, an association of libraries dedicated to the use of open source solutions and the independent mastery of software, metadata, and information infrastructure.
Team
Head of project
Dr. Johannes Mangei (HAB)
Project coordination
Dr. Anna Lingnau (HAB)
Acquisition and Cataloging
Maysoun Modzel, M.A. (HAB)
Technical project coordination
Dorian Merz, Dipl.-Inf. (HAB)
Pascal Kanter, M. Sc. (UBL)
Coordination of needs assessment and public relations
Prof. Dr. Elke Greifeneder (IBI)
Vufind management, website development and metadata management
André Lahmann
Robert Lange
Dorian Merz
Alexander Purr
Robert Schenk
Lydia Unterdörfel
Heiko Wolf
Advisory Board
- Prof. Dr. Thomas Mandl, Information Science and Language Technology, University of Hildesheim
- Prof. Dr. Robert Jäschke, Information Science, Humboldt University Berlin
- Prof. Dr. Günther Neher, Information Science, Potsdam University of Applied Sciences
- Prof. Dr. Ute Schneider, Book Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University-Mainz
- Junior Professor Dr. Nikolaus Weichselbaumer, Book Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University-Mainz
Publications
- Greifeneder, Elke; Lingnau, Anna (2021): Spezialbedarfe identifizieren und Versorgungslücken schließen. Der Fachinformationsdienst Buch-, Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft. In: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Buchforschung in Österreich (1), S. 7–17.
- Gierke, Bettina (2020): Der Fachinformationsdienst Buch-, Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft – eine Kurzvorstellung. In: Information - Wissenschaft & Praxis 71 (1), S. 43–48.
- Gierke, Bettina (2020): Der Fachinformationsdienst Buch-, Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft eröffnet neue Möglichkeiten für die Buchwissenschaft. In: Medium Buch 1, S. 237–239.
- Bettina Gierke, Johannes Mangei, Dorian Merz und Sandra Simon, „Fachinformationsdienst Buch-, Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft – ein Werkstattbericht“, Bibliotheksdienst, 12 (2019), 168–192.
- Sandra Simon and Timo Steyer, „Specialized Information Programs as a Service for Researchers at German Academic Libraries“, Transformative Digital Humanities: Challenges and Opportunities, eds Marta Deyrup and Mary Balkun. Routledge 2020.
- Kurzbericht aus der Werkstatt des Fachinformationsdienstes Buch-, Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft, Information - Wissenschaft & Praxis, 2-3 (2019), 156–157.
- Sandra Simon, „Was sind und wozu braucht es eigentlich Fachinformationsdienste?“ Deutsche Universitätszeitung, 7 (2018), 9.