Rolf Griebel
Encyclopedia
Rolf Griebel is a German librarian
, library administrator, and prominent figure in German and international library association
s. He has been the Director General of the Bavarian State Library
(Bayerische Staatsbibliothek or BSB
) since 2004.
Griebel is the BSB's Partner Representative in OCLC
(Online Computer Library Center), which is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs. OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat
—the OCLC Online Union Catalog
.
Griebel was ultimately responsible for BSB's participation in the Google Books Library Project
, which involves a series of agreements between Google and major international libraries through which a collection of its public domain books will be scanned in their entirety and made available for free to the public online.
Librarian
A librarian is an information professional trained in library and information science, which is the organization and management of information services or materials for those with information needs...
, library administrator, and prominent figure in German and international library association
Library association
Library association may refer to:* Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, previously the Library Association...
s. He has been the Director General of the Bavarian State Library
Bavarian State Library
The Bavarian State Library in Munich is the central "Landesbibliothek", i. e. the state library of the Free State of Bavaria and one of Europe's most important universal libraries. With its collections currently comprising around 9.39 million books, it ranks among the best research libraries...
(Bayerische Staatsbibliothek or BSB
BSB
BSB is a three-letter abbreviation that may refer to:* Back-side bus, a data bus in a computer* Backstreet Boys, an American vocal group* Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei...
) since 2004.
Griebel is the BSB's Partner Representative in OCLC
OCLC
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. is "a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world’s information and reducing information costs"...
(Online Computer Library Center), which is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs. OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat
WorldCat
WorldCat is a union catalog which itemizes the collections of 72,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories which participate in the Online Computer Library Center global cooperative...
—the OCLC Online Union Catalog
Union catalog
A union catalog is a combined library catalog describing the collections of a number of libraries. Union catalogs have been created in a range of media, including book format, microform, cards and more recently, networked electronic databases...
.
Griebel was ultimately responsible for BSB's participation in the Google Books Library Project
Google Books Library Project
The Google Books Library Project is an effort by Google to scan and make searchable the collections of several major research libraries. The project, along with Google's Partner Program, comprise Google Books . Along with bibliographic information, snippets of text from a book are often viewable...
, which involves a series of agreements between Google and major international libraries through which a collection of its public domain books will be scanned in their entirety and made available for free to the public online.
Published work
- Griebel, Rolf. (2002). Etatbedarf universitärer Bibliothekssysteme. Ein Modell zur Sicherung der Literatur- und Informationsversorgung an den Universitäten. Frankfurt-am-Main: Kostermans. 10-ISBN 3-465-03227-6; 13-ISBN 978-3-465-03227-4 (cloth)
- Griebel, Rolf, Andreas Werner, and Sigrid Hornei. (1994). Bestandsaufbau und Erwerbungspolitik in universitären Bibliothekssystemen. Versuch einer Standortbestimmung. Berlin: Deutsches Bibliotheksinst. 10-ISBN 3-87068-934-X (cloth)
- Dörpinghaus, Hermann Josef and Rolf Griebel. (1992). Checkliste für die Auswahl von Lieferanten ausländischer Monographien. Berlin: Deutsches Bibliotheksinstitut. 10-ISBN 3-87068-418-6 (cloth)