Vom Wert des Sammelns und vom Mehrwert des Digitalen – Verstreute Bemerkungen zur gegenwärtigen Lage der Bibliothek

Abstract

It is time for the library's renaissance as collection, especially in the digital age. The various user scenarios of digital content require - quite traditionally - its ownership and permanent availability. With respect to the idea of collection, printed, digital, and multimedia content have more in common than the current dichotomies of the virtual and the real want to make us believe. Today, if we talk about "Collections", we cannot be silent about "Specialised Information Services" as an arcanum of an understanding of the library that is entirely committed to current needs. At closer view, this turns out to be a strategy of easing the burdens that come with a collection's demands and expectations. An emphatic notion of collection and library is overdue to work against this externalization of the arduous work with the content. (English) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]