| Dear Friends!
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| We bring to you the
first issue of our newsletter on Information Services, which aims to
provide you with the latest in the field of Media & Information
in Germany. |
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| In the first
section of this newsletter, we invite you to browse through DigiBib
- an online library. |
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| The second section
informs you about the latest happenings in the German Library &
Information Science sector. |
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| In each issue,
Literary Projects will introduce you to a web project
organized by the Goethe Institute. In this edition we introduce you
to www.litrix.de - a portal for
promoting contemporary German literature. |
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| Meet Cornelia
Funke, the 'German J.K. Rowling', and get to know more about her
fascinating creations, in our Author in Focus section.
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| Our separate
Corner for Bibliophiles puts you into
the current German literary picture and also gives you a foretaste
of some of the finest literary pieces being published there
today. |
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| We would also like
to draw your attention to the fact that we have recently started
offering our readers the services of the internationally recognized
databank Lexis Nexis. This databank is well
known as a rich source of articles, which are gathered from
newspapers, magazines and journals from all over the world. We will
be happy to receive your queries on any topic related to Germany -
be it art, culture, literature or science. Your queries will then be
processed by our team of professionals and the results will be made
available to you. |
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We hope that this newsletter will
prove to be interesting and insightful for you. Please do write to
us with your valuable suggestions & feedback at the following
e-mail address: online.editor.mmb@delhi.goethe.org
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| The MMB RIC team |
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| DigiBib-The online library from
Nordrhein- Westfalen |
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Finding answers with Digibib
DigiBib
offers you the opportunity to search through
different sources of information under one unified interface. Search
simultaneously through the catalogues of international libraries as
well as through bibliographic databases, from all over the
world. DigiBib offers its users - selected links from the
WWW - WWW-Metasearchmachine and a wide variety of other
services... Although DigiBib offers information in English
language, the search interface is German. Hence, you may face
difficulties in accessing it. You are welcome to contact us in
case you need help in this regard.  More... |
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| In the News |
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The Dresden medien@age – a Library for the
21st Century
 For a long time the
library of the twentieth century may have been just "a collection
of books", but other media forms are becoming increasingly important
this century. The medien@age library in Dresden has courageously
embraced this change – and has scored points with its target
audience along the way. More... |
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Information Services in
Germany
 Unlike in the
Anglo-American countries, information services in libraries in
Germany at the beginning of the 20th century initially referred
mainly to literary information and less to factual information.
For two decades now ever more people in Germany have been asking
questions about facts to the information sectors of libraries.
Today, highly specialised information teams in the field of
general information who have many databases for literature and
factual information at their disposal can increasingly be found in
the academic and large public libraries. More... |
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vascoda – the Internet Portal for
Scientific Information
 Being able to access
the information lying dormant on the shelves of German libraries
with a click of the mouse and download it onto your computer with
another click – this is a vision that has just moved one step closer
to becoming reality. Since August 2003 the interdisciplinary
Internet portal vascoda has been providing access to 37
German libraries, research institutes and information providers.
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| Literary Projects |
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Litrix.de - German Literature
Online
 Since January 2004,
excerpts from outstanding new publications, specimen translations
and the latest information on the German book market are available from the online magazine
Litrix.de. The magazine is aimed
at an international audience and is a major part of a project
promoting contemporary German literature abroad. Project partners
are the Federal Cultural Foundation, the Goethe-Institut and the
Frankfurt Book Fair. More... |
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| Author in Focus |
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Portrait of Cornelia Funke
 Cornelia Funke is currently the most
successful German author of books for young people. She was born in
1958 and has sold a million copies of her books for young people and
children. She has been compared internationally with JK Rowling, the
author of the Harry Potter series. In September 2003 her book "Tintenherz" was released. More... |
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| Bibliophile's
Corner |
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Lexikon der deutschsprachigen
Gegenwartsliteratur – Revised
 Germany, the "land of
poets and thinkers", has brought forth a great number of writers
since time immemorial. So it isn’t easy keeping track, especially of
the latest names. A newly revised encyclopaedia has arrived to help
out More...
Encyclopaedia only in German language. |
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| Where the Good Guys Still Win
German detective stories about FBI
agent Jerry Cotton have been an international hit for 50
years.
 "His leap was an act
of desperation, the insane reaction of a cornered killer who has
nothing left to lose. He dove smack into the line of fire of my
revolver. I had released the safety: all I had to do was pull the
trigger. But I chose not to: I have a deep-seated aversion to
shooting an unarmed man." More... |
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"The Wild East" - Young East German authors look back
 By
contrast with the young West Germans who accommodated themselves
with Helmut Kohl perfectly well for eight years after the Berlin
Wall came down and watched, relaxed and uninterested, as the
so-called "Berlin Republic" decayed into "Berlin
provinciality", the East Germans of the same age, who have
been largely speechless until now, have suddenly appeared from
nowhere and are now publishing one book after another.
 More...
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