Germanists Discussion Group

ALA – Chicago

Sunday, June 26

10 a.m. - Noon

Palmer House Hilton, Dearborn 1

The State of German Librarianship after Unification, with Emphasis on the Eastern States

Keynote speaker: Jens Lazarus, M.A., Direktor, Bibliothek der Hochschule Merseburg (FH). “Rebuilding an Information Landscape – the Transformation and Developments of East German Librarianship since the Wende”

Ron Patkus, Associate Director of the Library for Special Collections, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY. "Research Libraries in Eastern Germany since Reunification: the Examples of Weimar, Gotha, and Halle"

Michael Seadle, Assistant Director for Systems and Digital Services, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. "The Electronic Great Chain of Being in East German Libraries: Access, Archiving, and the Stuff in Between"

Dale Askey, Librarian for Germanic Languages and Literatures, Yale University, New Haven, CT. “Public Services and Collections, or, Integrating Large Eastern German Research Collections into the German Research Library Fold”

We thank the New York office of the Goethe-Institut for sponsoring Jens Lazarus to attend this conference.