...Claudius Herkt-Januschek Purpose Speicherverbund Nord is a print archiving cooperative of seven academic libraries from Northern Germany. Its scope is the shared archiving of print serials with multiple holdings. This article presents the history and key events from the start of the initiative...

... other goal. Public administration Strategic management Balanced scorecard Organizational culture Libraries Germany During the 1990s the new public management approach and with this structured controlling reached libraries in Germany (Boekhorst, 2008). There was a need to develop...

... In Germany, establishing a repository library like those in the Scandinavian countries or in the Anglo‐Saxon world seems impossible. In the last few years in the area of storage concepts there has been an avoidance of the idea of central and regional storage libraries. The few existing co‐operative models...

..., and equal numbers of teaching and research staff). © MCB UP Limited 1998 Decision‐support systems Germany Management information systems Public libraries Statistical process control Trends This is used in the following way. After the naming of the decision‐support‐criterion (1...

...Rolf Griebel Describes the model budget for university libraries, which has been devised by the Wissenschaftsrat. Discusses the budgetary reality of academic libraries in Germany. Concludes by considering how to cope with the crisis of the supply of literature caused by financial...