Lehrstuhl Digital Library / Lehrstuhl Digitale Bibliothek / La chaire bibliothèques numériques

Abstract

The article provides an overview of the “Lehrstuhl” (professorship) for digital libraries at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science. The “Lehrstuhl” teaches both bachelor and masters students, and offers support for its doctoral students. The main areas of teaching are (1) research methods, with a particular focus on statistics and ethnography, and (2) digital libraries, with a focus on the development, scope, structure and metadata standards of digital libraries. Research covers the areas of long-term digital archiving - including “digital cultural migration”. The Berlin School is a partner of the LOCKSS (“Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe”) long-term archiving network. A second research focus is on information behavior especially in the digital environment, and using ethnographic methods. Other research areas include the impact of copyright legislation and the history of information.